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Perception belongs to
KARMA AND OUDARIKA-SARIRA. of thought, desires and will, determines the character of the former by its preferential interest. So the relation, from one aspect is the Ordárika
and, one of correlativity. We shall prove this in various ways.
We all know that we have both perception and conception of a thing. And we know further that perception is directly related to the object, for it follows the direct presentment of the object to the senses, whereas conception is indirectly related to the object through perception. The former, we are of opinion, belongs to the oudárika body (औदारिक शरीर ) or the perceptual organism where external objects are directly presented to and the latter namely, conception, desire, and will belong to the karman body (काम ण mitt ;) for these are referred to the object only indirectly through the senses. But what is a conception ? Is it not perception universalised ? A conception becomes a chimera, barren and empty, if it is not capable of being fulfilled by the direct presentment of the object on the senses which constitutes perception. How are we to know otherwise which conception is
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