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The Science of Reincarnation,
The Toll of Karma
6. biting by snakes or poisonous creatures and,
7. stopping of breathing by any unnatural means.
Due to these unnatural causes, life span may be reduced significantly. This means the time for particular life to be availed was although fixed for a long time interval but was availed quickly by unnatural means. For example, it might take a few minutes for sugar to dissolve in cold water but the same amount of sugar in hot water will dissolve quickly. Sugar is body, water is death and normal temperature of water is normal cause to lose identity of sugar that is death. Here we could consider high temperature of water as an unnatural cause or quick way of dissolving sugar in water. We can illustrate this as in FIGURE 15:
We have seen that some people die quickly and some take longer time to die than others with a similar cause of death. Quick death is known as Samohiya Maran, and slow death is called Asamohiya Maran. After death Namkarma particles attached to Atma comes into action and thus decide the form of species to be born. In this way, Nam Karma directs Atma for its new destination. In particular, Anupurvi Nam Karma particles decide
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