Book Title: Notion of Growth
Author(s): Hermann Kuhn
Publisher: Crosswind Publishing Germany

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________________ 166 Hermann Kuhn APPLICATION REGARDING REINCARNATION Karma is easily associated with reincarnation. Not without reason; - though karmic mechanisms definitely operate in the actual present, they are also placed in the context of successive embodiments. The West often looks upon this model with disdain and without much further consideration relegates it to the domain of oriental fairy tales - usually with a mild ironic smile. But we easily forget that our precious Western idea of existence is also just a concept. The presumption that life is created from nothing to assume a brief corporal existence, then - at its end - is transferred to another type of body to remain rather eternally in heaven or hell, - this presumption originates in religious beliefs hardly accessible to logic. Ever since science successfully propagated the idea that only what is physically perceived is permitted to exist, heaven and hell are dismissed. Our life (and our consciousness) was reduced to an accidental play of chemicals that neither exists before the body's birth, nor after its death and therefore could not possibly have any deeper meaning. Now - every concept (whether originating in the divine, scientifically proven or practically tested) is always only a Jain Education International For Private & Personal Use Only www.jainelibrary.org

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