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will develop only a single sense-organ i.e. the sense-organ of touch. Its physical structure will not have provision for the remaining four sense-organs. The sense-organs of sight, hearing, smell and taste will not be formed. If the karma body has the potential for two or all the five sense-organs, there will be an equal number of sense-organs in the gross body. If the karma body has the potential for the development of the mind, the gross body will develop a brain, otherwise not. Animals which do not have a mind do not have the spinal cord and brain also. If the gross body has a spinal cord and a brain, it must have a mind also. Thus the building and development of the gross body has its roots in the subtle body. We may call the gross body a reflection of the subtle body
Physiologists have analysed the glands situated in the human body. When the hormones in the Thyroid gland are not in a balanced state, the body will remain a dwarf. The whole of development of the body, brain and mind which results in the body becoming long or beautiful or ugly or deceased or healthy or intelligent or otherwise depends upon the secretions of the glands. It is the glands which determine the development or deterioration of the gross body.
Karma has been divided into cight categories. One of these is what is called nāma karmu. It has several functions and divisions. It is due to nāma karma that the body becomes dwarfish or tall. The beauty or ugliness of the body, the sweetness or hoarseness of its voice etc. are determined by the potential of nāma karma. Sadhakas in their deep meditation have contacted the subtle body and analysed its subtleties. Scientists have not yet succeeded in any such attempts. They have analysed and explained the gross body only. Let us undertake a comparative study of the scientists and those of the spiritual practitioners. The study will reveal that both of them say the same thing. The spiritual plane is higher than the physiological plane. Observations made by the spiritualists are based on their study of the karma body, whereas those of the scientists are based on a subtle analysis of the gross body which is a reflection of the former. But both of them have adopted the same language. A body and its reflection in a mirror cannot be two unconnected things. The reflection in
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