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covers millions of years and practically infinite space in creation. This is superceded by self surrender which marks the advent of the Vijñānamayakośa. This is a state of genostic consciousness. This is followed by the Anandamayakosa. All this movement in under the law of evolution. Finally man becomes a supermanagnostic being and God Himself. This entire movement is the movement of man becoming God. Just as God becomes man similarly man also rises up to the level of God. The activity of karma comes in the middle, not in the subhuman and not even in the superhuman. It has its own moral significance but ultimately
It disappears.
APPENDIX V : We have stated in the body of the book how souls under the influence of unfulfilled prārabdha karma recovered to take the birth on the human plane from time to time. This is what happens in normal course as a part of redeeming function of the law of karma. Ordinarily this happens in the life of the individual soul which is not yet free from the process of the genesis of karma and its fructification in normal course. In the technical language of the Agamas, the souls concerned, belong to the sakala type. These souls as expounded by the Tántric philosophers are coated with a three-fold cover including what is usually called the seeds of karma. From a study of the vast occult literature both Vedic and Agamic, we come to know that such descent into human forms happens to higher source also namely souls of people who have through the effect of discriminative knowledge (falaze 1177 ) reasoned about ignorance or non-discrimination, but who have not yet risen to the height of self knowledge as expounded in the Tantras but who happened to lie on the higher planes of life beyond the fields of usual karma activities. Such souls are not of the sakala type and belong to the spiritual regions beyond the bounds of praksti. Such souls may belong to different categories but in all cases they seem to belong to higher regions, where the usual law of transmigration does not function. To make my point more clear, I should like to state that about the usual transmigratory
