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Luw of Karma
The self is the most integrated entity. The integration in man is partly conscious and voluntary. Through intelligence man conceives some ideals and organises all his activities. The more a man pursues his ideals, the more integrated and organised he becomes. The soul becomes gradually more and more perfect. The highest degree of unity in an individual is attended, when life is identified with one Supreme purpose. When the body, life, mind and self-consciousness are unified, the self attains a higher degree of perfection.
Now, on the basis of above discussion, we can say that Dr. Radhakrishnan conceives double soul in man, viz., the finite self and the infinite self. The former is a inind body relation whereas the latter is a portion of God. These two are called as Individual Soul and Real Soul also.
Individual Soul
According to Dr. Radhakrishnan, the finite aspects of man are determined by empirical conditions. In other words, the bodily self can be called as representing this aspect of man. It is called finite because its determining factors themselves can be determined in terms of known conditions. .
The peculiarity of this aspect is that it always considers the embodied man as a subject living in an environment. All the bodily responses are determined by environment. Dr. Radhakrishnan calls this aspect of soul by different names--the empirical man, the physical man, the natural man, the indivi. dual etc.
An analysis of this aspect will point out some of its characteristics. Firstly, many religious philosophies both in the east and the west have emphasized on the complete annihilation of the bodily potentiality. In India, seers of the past emphasized on the illusory character of the physical self, But Dr, Radhakrishnan is not of the similar vicw. He says that the physical constitutes one aspect of the soul. “The realm of spirit is not cut off from the realm of life. To divide man into outer desire and inner quality is to violate the integrity of human life ... the two orders of reality--the transcendent and the empirical are closely related,"24
