Theory of Karman in Indian Thought

Author(s): Koshelya Walli
Publisher: Bharat Manisha

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[ 58 ] a tattva-deha but is a body which experiences through itself the results of Karma either as .pleasure or as pain. This physical body is the Bhogāyatana body of the soul and not the tattva body which is a subtle conglomeration of the root principles of creation. There can be no experience of pleasure and pain with a body which is made up of the elementary principles of nature (Tattvadeha ). Bhoga is possible only through a body which is not made up of the principle or tattvas but from the after effect of tattvas. Mere tattva in its isolated condition can never give rise to pain or to pleasure. To be able to generate pleasure and pain tattvas should be first converted into Bhuvanas and should' not be allowed to stay as merely elementary principle. The Bhuvanaja deha-the so called physical body of one plane differs from that of another plane. The transmigration of the tattva-sareera is based upon the principle of Karma riot yet. experienced as pleasure or pain. The tattva-sareera when coated with the Bhuvanaja šareera may enjoy the pleasures of every kind and may also suffer intense pain of every sort. Example of pleasure-giving bodies are found in the lower heavens and higher heavens. Similarly examples of bodies which cause pain or suffering are found in the different dark regions of the hells and nether world. The physical bodies or hell-beings are technically known as Yátanā sareera. It is not possible for ordinary human bodies to tolerate the extreme pain inflicted upon them in hell on account of the gravity of their past karmas. In the same manner, the celestial bodies are similar to or dissimilar from the ordinary bodies known to us. Ordinary human bodies as known to us are so constituted that they are not capable of enjoying the the intense pleasures which have to be enjoyed in heavens. Both these bodies of heaven and hell are physical bodies in a sense but they are so constituted that they are capable of having. the experience of extreme pleasure and extreme pain. The usual rule is that a person on death leaves behind him his ordinary human body and begins to migrate with his tattva sareera from one planc to another, in order to reap the consequences of his former deeds. This they have to do not in the tattva-sareera