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APPENDIX IV KARMA AND ITS ROLE IN THB COSMIC EVOLUTION OF MAN
(FROM THE SUBCONSCIOUS TO THB SUPER CONSCIOUS)
Karma has its own place in the general scheme of cosmic evolution. It is well known that karma is associated with the life of man but we must bear in mind that there is a stage in the general evolution of the world before the advent of man with his gospel of karma and it is also true that there is a stage in human life when karma as such ceases to be a living force and makes room for a Higher Power which replaces it and brings upto consummation the evolutionary plan of the Universe. Man as we know him is associated with a body that is a human body furnished with life and senses and associated with a mind capable of moral discrimination. In other words the Annamayakośa ( 372447137 ), Prānamayakośa ( THIET ), and Manomayakośa ( Hai 2017 31 ), are grouped together and contribute their own function to the life of man. The human life as we find it on the earth and elsewhere is a complex mechanism in which body, senses and mind have their respective functions. The three stages of waking, dream and dreamless sleep working in a psychic order in a man represent the three-fold characteristic of human life-manifested in the waking state when the senses function in relation to the outer world and the mind.: The dreaming condition when the senses work inward as it were and the mind functions with the subconscious forces at its disposal and the condition of the sleep when the mind rests in the region of the heart and does not function. All these three work in rotation and this is general hạman life. In the case of ordinary man, these three stages are evident but in the case of subhuman creation the consciousness
ctions not in the waking condition but in a state of dreamlike vities and lower down in this strata of creation there is a les of inorganic and unorganised beings where we might say
state of dreamless sleep prevails. In no case do we find a state ate beyond these three. What is technically known as the
riya, is not a normal state with ordinary humanity. In the panişads where the different kośas are mentioned, we find
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| SR No. | 011109 |
| Book Title | Theory of Karman in Indian Thought |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Koshelya Walli |
| Publisher | Bharat Manisha |
| Publication Year | 1977 |
| Total Pages | 377 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 17 MB |