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the law of causality in the moral field will be seriously challenged. It is likely to create anarchy in the moral sphere. It is said in the Nyaya Sūtras of Gotama --“This is, we reply, not so because it would lead us to acknowledge the consequences of actions not done by us.". Moral life will become bankrupt in the absence of the doctrine of Karma which has to be accepted only by inference and not on any actual verification as it is impossible.?
The individual soul is thus a mere phase in the life of the eternal soul. The cycle of births or the phenomenon of transmigration implies the permanent or eternal existence of the soul. The Nyāya Vais'esikas believe that the soul is eternal. The body is perishable and is destroyed at the death of the individual, but the soul migrates from the previous birth to the subsequent carrying with it its stock of the merit and demerit accumulated in its previous existence. Kes'ava Mis'ra describes in the Tārkabhāsā, the soul in the following way-"He is different from the body and the senses, is different for each individual body, is all pervasive and eternal. "3 H. T. Colebrooke describes the soul in these systems in the following way The individual soul is infinite; for whithersoever the body goes there the soul too is present. It experiences the fruits of its
i Vidyabhushan S. C.: The Nyāya Sūtras of Gotama (Tr.) Sūtra 153, p. 10. • 2 Ibid. 153, p. 107. 3 Mis'ra Kes'ava (Com. Govardhana): Tarkabhāsā, pp. 62,63.
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