Theory of Karman in Indian Thought

Author(s): Koshelya Walli
Publisher: Bharat Manisha

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and until it is renoved the soul continues to be called an animal soul and its divinc or Sivamaya Prakrti is not brought into activity. These higliest souls are luminous, powerful and endowed with all faculties. They have a glorified body and are active partners in the dispensation of the world. These souls are technically known as Siddhas and continuc to exist until their aniinal nature is exhausted and the divinily re-established. These souls have only one bond out of the three left in them. This limitation enables them to rise above the embodied human existence of the world as well as this diserboidied human existence is Kaivalvamukti etc.
From the above observa:ions, it is clear that there are cliffeTent limitations in different categories of souls-the Vijiūnakala souls are of the highest order. Some of these souls whose innate impurity or Anavamala is mature, received the Supreme Divine Grace at the end of a particular cycle and according to the degrees of their individual purity they are gifted with divine grare of a particular order and invested with powers for taking part in the world administration. As administrators on higher planes, trey are classified on the basis of their purity and power into different classes. They are all furnished with a glorified body consequent on the operation of Divine Grace and are furnished with multiple power necessary for the maintenance of sacred wisdom and cosmic morality.
These are placed under different categories such as. Matras, Mantreswaras and Mantrabhairaveswaras etc.
They are workers in Divine Harmony, working for the moral upliftment of the human race. They have no Karmas of their own and yet they may be said to have Karmas of a superior type. The impure Vásanā of ordinary human beings do not exist in them but tbe pure Vásanā of higher soul of angelic character belong to them and continue to function. When these Vāsanās will disappear after their gradual fulfilment, these souls will be absolutely pure and the atomic coating will disappear