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ACTIVITY AND ITS CONTROL
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Corresponding to the four types of bodies, viz., gross, transformable, projectable, and karmic we have the first four varieties, viz., the activity of gross body, that of transformable body, that of projectable body, and that of karmic body. What about the activity of electric body? The answer to this question is that the activity of electric body is not specially counted, inasmuch as it is invariably associated with the activity of karmic body.1 We have the following objection to this answer: Being of an independent and specific nature electric body must have a special activity just like the activities of the other bodies. It is altogether a different problem whether a particular body is always connected with another body or a particular body is never connected with another kind of body. The only satisfactory solution is that if there is an independent type of body it is the demand of logical thinking that it must possess an independent activity. Hence, the activity of electric body must be specially counted. It is equally real and positive exactly like the activity of karmic body. Regarding the mixed activities the following conclusions can be drawn: (1) The activity of gross body can co-exist with that of transformable body, karmic body (including electric body), or projectable body. (2) The activity of transformable body can co-exist with that of gross body or karmic body (electric body is also included). (3) The activity of projectable body can co-exist with that of gross body only. (4) The activity of karmic body (and that of electric body) can co-exist with that of gross body, or transformable body. Let us examine these four positions. The activity of gross body is not antagonistic to any physical activity. The activity of transformable body does not co-exist with that of projectable body. Why is it so? It is because of the impossibility of the co-existence of both these bodies, as is apparent from the study of the Jaina conception of bodies. Why is it an impossibility to exist transformable body and projectable body together? It is because of the fundamental difference of the nature and conduct of the possessors of the two. The conditions required for the existence of the two are diametrically opposed to each other. The existence of transformable body is necessarily conditioned by psychical inertia (pramāda), whereas
1 Sadā kārmaṇena sahāvyabhicāritayā.. Karma-grantha, IV, p. 154.
