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Oudánika is the cause of the Kárman: its difficul. ties.
AN EPÍTOME OF JAINISM.
This theory also labours under serious difficulties. The first question which we put to such theorists is, how does it produce the outer nature of man? Mere being or the fact of existence of the inner nature cannot account for the origin of the outer nature. The mere being of a thing cannot explain the origin of another thing, so we are led to assert that the Kårman-sariva transforms itself into the Oudárika sarira. Here the same difficulties re-appear! How to explain the fact of (1) Co-existence and (2) Inter-action.
Others may think that the right theory is this : Kårman-sarira does not produce the Oudárika sarira, but on the contrary Oudàrika produces the Kårman-sarira.
Oudárika is the cause of the kármansarira : but this theory is open to another fresh objection in addition to the previous difficulties. Theactivity, of the Oudárika-sarira is possible only when it is actuated by desires and will. Has any body heard of unmotived activities ? And these desires and will belong to the Kårman-sarira : so the obvious mistake is here to make the presupposition of a thing, the product of it. That without which the
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