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its soul is never generated; a body without a soul is only a corpse. The moment a living body comes to birth it means it is associated with soul. The association of a soul with a particular body is thus caused by one's deeds in the past life; and the dissociation of the two also takes place when the Karma or the effect for the experience of which the body is created gets exhausted. Gotama further states that the soul and the body get dissociated with the exhaustion of the Karma. “And the separation between the soul and the body is effected by the termination of the deserts." The whole cycle of birth and death and the continuity of it with the successive births is guided and regulated by the doctrine of Karma or by the desert of individuals. It is responsible also for inaintaining the consistency of relation between the deeds and their effects. But for the idea of desert the correspondence between the acts and their results cannot be satisfactorily explained.
It is again a fact of our experience that we never have pure pleasure which is entirely free from the slightest tinge of pain. The Nyāya Vais'eșika systems hold that pure pleasure cannot exist absolutely. Pleasure, howsoever pure, is to some extent mixed with pain. The two are inseparable. One cannot enjoy only pleasure and pleasure throughout his life by keeping off from pain, and thus, cannot make his life worth living by making it happy through and through. Pleasure and pain are inseparable. One who seeks pleasure which is completely free from
Įbid. Sūtra 3.2.72., p. 105. .
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