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RE-BIRTH AND KARMA-SARIRA.
misrepresen. tation and wrong inter
the Law,
certain, it is not so sure that the trans- Huxley's mitted character of an evil-doer is worse or thật of a righteous man better than that pretation of which he received. Indian philosophy, however, does not admit of any doubt on the subject, the belief in the influence of conditions, notably self-discipline, on the karmas was not merely a necessary postulate of its theory of retribution, but it presented the only way of escape from the endless of round of transmigrations,"
Such is Prof. Huxley's interpretation and presentation of the law of karna and metempsychoses in Indian philosophy. But we differ from him in as much as neither the interpretation, nor the presentation, on that account, is correct. For we must have to draw a line of distinction between a man and his conditions According to our philosophy a man may, indeed, be roughly taken as the embodiment of intellectual, spiritual and moral (Fo'w a fra ) essences which Huxley sums up by the word 'character.' And the man as such is not different from the sumtotal of the the energies summed up by 'character' as just explained. But then there
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