Sacred Philosophy

Author(s): Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: Champat Rai Jain

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combination with matter, it exists in an impure condition and cannot attain to the status and perfection of divinity. It is also subject to repeated births and deaths, .e., transmigration, in that condition. The idea is that the somatic death does not signify a complete separation between spirit and matter, for if that were so every soul would become a God the moment it breathed its last, which would be absurd. The material impurities adhere to the ego in the form of two subtle invisible bodies, known as the karmâna (the body of karmas) and the taijasa sariras (the body of electric matter), and in consequence of the forces of magnetism and chemical affinity which are set in motion by and through them the soul is attracted and drawn into a new womb immediately on its being released from its gross physical body in consequence of death. As for the circumstances and conditions of the future life, the rule is that the soul being the maker of its own body and liable to be affected by its surroundings, impressions, tendencies and beliefs, the organizing forces residing in the two inner bodies referred to above are modified at the end of each incarnation, giving rise to differences of bodies and bodily limbs from life to life. Hence, whether an individual is born in pleasant surroundings or those that are disagreeable, whether he incarnates among men or brutes, whether he