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sition of fruits it did not sow. How can this be? This \vas the first
doubt.
What is done is done. Nothing apparently remains of our
karma. How can then the sequences be accounted for? This was
the second doubt.
Narad a replies; *
Purusha reaps the fruits in that very body without break in
which it acquires karma, but that body is the Linga Sarira, inclusive of
Manas. As in dream man works out the impressions of the wakeful
state without changing the body, so he enjoys the fruits of karma
created in one birth in the Karma-made body of another birth.
And the doer of Karma is verily the Manas and not the
Sthula body. " These are mine," " I am so and so," only such con-
cepts of the mind produce re-birth, and not anything in the Sthula
body. So the mind sows and the mind reaps. The body is merely
the vehicle of birth producing thoughts.
This is in answer to the first question. Now to the second.
How do you know there is chitta or mind? All the senses are
at one and the same time in contact with the objects of all the senses.
But still you perceive only one thing at a time. Hence you infer the
existence of the mind. Similarly by marking the tendencies of the
mind their connection with a former birth is inferred. Otherwise why
should there be one mental affection at a time and not another?
Then, in this life you never realise a thing which you never
heard or saw or felt before. How can the mind then reproduce
matters you never experienced before?
The mind by its present characteristics gives an insight into
the past as well as into the future.
It sometimes happens that things are perceived in the mind
with strange combinations in time, space and action, as in dream.
But men are endowed with mind and the mind perceives one
after another the objects of the senses in an enormous variety, and
the perceptions are lost again. So (in the long run) not one experi-
ence is altogether, strange.
(For instance, a man sees in dream that he is a king. He
must have been a king in some birth or other. The present combina-
tion in the dreem is untrue but not so the kingly experience. The
experience is always true with reference to some time, some space,
some action or other).
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