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KARMA AND REINCARNATION
and explains how they are attracted (Ashrava), how they are assimilated with the individual (Bandha), how their inflow can be stopped (Samvara), how they can be entirely worked out (Nirjara), and what the ultimate state of the perfected individual is (Moksha). This particular branch of philosophy, therefore, includes topics like sensations, perceptions, consciousness, pains and pleasures, moralities of life, moral depravities, building of the body and all factors of the individuality.
8. PURUSHARTHA VERSUS PRARABDHA
One philosopher says “It is very difficult to say how Purushartha brings results and how it operates.” Another philosopher says: “Everything is prearranged in the grand plan or grand scheme. God knows the whole details of evolution of a man from mineral life till he becomes a Jivanmukta or liberated soul. In reality all is Prarabdha only. We will have to preach Purushartha just to give an impetus to the man to work in right earnest. Otherwise he will become slothful and dull.”
The man who advocates the theory of Purushartha says “Am I a straw to be tossed about hither and thither? I can change my Prarabdha. I will undo it by Vedantic practice. I have free will of my own. I will make it pure and irresistible I will work out my salvation I will become free myself." No one
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