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of karma is carried by the soul through the subtle body (sūkṣma s'arira). Carvākas do not believe in the permanence of the soul and hence there is no transmigration of it. The Buddhists reject the soul but explain the process of rebirth on the basis of the continuity of the series of the states of consciousness. Adṛṣṭa remains operative as long as the body acts and the soul is attached to it. Rebirth does not come to an end until actions are completely given up and the old stock of karma is not exhausted either by knowledge of God or by religious rites or by sincere devotion to God. The freedom of the soul from the Adṛsta leads to liberation. All the systems of philosophy and the Vaisnava and S'aiva cults of bhakti admit the validity of the Adṛṣṭa.
Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
(10) The Soul and Nescience (Ajñāna)
Almost all the systems except Carvakism are unanimous on the point of tracing the worldly life and its suffering to ajñāna or nescience or ignorance. The Upanisads, Buddhism, Jainism and all other later systems including the Vaisnava Saints and the S'aivas hold that ajñāna (nescience) is the cause of worldly life and suffering. It is out of ajñāna or nescience that the soul is wrongly supposed to be that which it is not and thus the attachment to those worldly perishable things under the false sense of soul, actions are undertaken, which bear their results which the soul has to experience in its succeeding lives. Adṛṣṭa remains operative due to ajñana and as long as one is led by nescience, by the wrong knowledge of the soul, karma does not come to an end.
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