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AN EPITOME OF JAINISM.
and deformed limbs and extremities and others with such and such complexion adding
⚫ Of individua
tion through beauty and lustre to its constitution which is
the
liked by all, while others are born with such physical organisms as are highly loathsome? Some are born to such and such parents in such and such family in such and such race and in such such place and walk and move with such traits and gaits in deportments and motions that all these taken together make up their respective individuality for which we are constrained to designate one as Mr. so-and-so, son of Mr. so-and-so, of such caste, family, and the like. The Naturalistic hypothesis with all its vaunted principles of adaptation to the environment and transmission of the acquired qualities to the offspring fails to explain the causes and conditions which determine the physique and physical environment which mark out a particular infant from amongst many others. But our sages explain by attributing the same to the aghatin Karma-the action-currents of non-injury". It is these currents of action that determine the physical constitution and the environment which gives the Jiva its
currents of non-injury.
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