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

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________________ of yet. AN EPITOME OF JAINISM between the experiences of the Ouddrik A study from body (percran et ) aud the experiences of another point mint the kårman body (mnoho uri). By oudårıka (भौदारिक शरीर ) we mean our neural organism which is the vehicle of the sensations, gross in form. While the experiences of the karman body (74* Tat) is confined within its thought, ideas, desires and will. Here there is an important matter to note. The experiences of the Orddrika body (perfin m ) which follows on the direct presentment of the actual objects, have no interest for us unless they are owned by us i.e referred to our own inney nature or karman body (Phyet). To be conscious that I am experiencing such and such things, the whole of objective experience requires to be viewed as the experience of my inner nature or in other words the objective experience, belonging to the ordårzka body (üherfi gilt) must, be referied back to and determined by the inner nature ; otherwise the experience, being devoid of every subjective reference, will lose all interest for us, and cannot be viewed as my own experience The outer experience, unless they are referred 340

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