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6 ACARYA VIJAYAVALLABHASŪRI COMMEMORATION VOLUME
different animals from before their birth).....God is only the common moving cause.... The differences in the animals are caused by the differences in the Karmas inhering in these animals.........."
The same efficiency of the Dharma and the Adharma as ante-natal causes, determining the peculiar characters of the animals, is acknowledged by the Buddhists,-at the obvious sacrifice of their fundamental doctrine of the absolute momentariness of all phenomena. The origin of an animal is not attributed to organic matter alone by the Buddhists. According to them, as Vacaspati points out,
"Bhava means the Dharma and the Adharma and is so called because to it the Bhava or origination is due. The origination of Skandha i.e. the animal Body is caused by that (i.e. the Bhava consisting in the Dharma and the Adharma)"
The Bhava as the transcendental force, working upon the organic matter for the origination of the animal Body is peculiar in each case and is otherwise called the Vasanā.
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