Book Title: Jainism Precepts and Practice
Author(s): Puranchand Nahar, Krishnakant Ghosh
Publisher: Caxton Publications

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________________ RE-BIRTH AND KARMA-SARIRA. Sansar gats, as it is called, for which it has devoloped a strong affinity and where, on that account, it may find a more favourable soil for Gats or the different suller expressions of the energies and forces grades of of its own making during the course of the previous term of the physical life. It may happen to be located for some time in the regions of hell (ar) or go to some other world It may travel among the brutes and beasts (facut afa) or may become a god or a demon in the world of gods and demons (देवासुर लोक). It may also by the virtue of its own karma under which it willingly laboured, run to Heaven, the region of the gods, there to enjoy the sweetest pleasures of life which he so much hankered after or be born again to such parents in the human, world (GMT gla) as is consistent with its prior deeds and desires, either to waddle in wealth and prosperity, or to starve to death in poverty, or to strive after bliss and beatitude, forsaking all the pleasures of wordly life and living. So we see that the 'Character of Prof. Huxley is somewhat the same with the karnasarıra in the Jain philosophy, The Hindu 319

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