Nyāya Sūtras 336

336.2

athāpi ---

336.3

śarīrotpattinimittavat saṃyogotpattinimittaṃ karma ||

NyS 3.2.66: Just like the cause of the body's origination, karma is the cause of the origination of [its] connection [with the self].

336.4

yathā khalv idaṃ śarīraṃ dhātuprāṇasaṃvāhinīnāṃ nāḍīnāṃ śukrāntānāṃ dhātūnāṃ ca snāyutvagasthiśirāpeśīkalalakaṇḍarāṇāṃ ca śirobāhūdarāṇāṃ sakthnāṃ ca koṣṭhagānāṃ vātapittakaphānāṃ ca mukhahṛdayāmāśayapakvāśayādhaḥsrotasāṃ ca paramaduḥkhasampādanīyena sanniveśena vyūhanam aśakyaṃ pṛthivyādibhiḥ karmanirapekṣair utpādayitum iti karmanimittā śarīrotpattir iti vijñāyate; evaṃ ca pratyātmaniyatasya nimittasyābhāvān niratiśayair ātmabhiḥ sambandhāt sarvātmanāṃ ca samānaiḥ pṛthivyādibhir utpāditaṃ śarīraṃ pṛthivyādigatasya ca niyamahetor abhāvāt sarvātmanāṃ sukhaduḥkhasaṃvittyāyatanaṃ samānaṃ prāptam/ yat tu pratyātmaṃ vyavatiṣṭhate tatra śarīrotpattinimittaṃ karma vyavashtāhetur iti vijñāyate/ paripacyamāno hi pratyātmaniyataḥ karmāśayo yasminn ātmani vartate tasyaivopabhogāyatanaṃ śarīram utpādya vyavasthāpayati/ tad evaṃ ``śarīrotpattinimittavat saṃyoganimittaṃ karma'' iti vijñāyate/ pratyātmavyavasthānaṃ tu śarīrasyātmanā saṃyogaṃ pracakṣmaha iti//66//

Just as indeed this body—with its arrangement of channels carrying humours and vital breaths, of the bodily constituents ending with semen, of ligaments, skin, bones, veins, muscles, embryo-mass, and tendons, of head, arms, belly, and thighs, of wind, bile, and phlegm located in the torso, and of mouth, heart, stomach, intestines, and lower tracts, an arrangement that is to be accomplished only with extreme difficulty—cannot be produced by earth and other [elements] independently of karma, and therefore it is known that the origination of the body has karma as its cause; just so, in the absence of an instrumental cause restricted to individual selves, because [the elements] are connected with selves that have no distinguishing differences, and because the body is produced by earth and other [elements] that are common to all selves, and because there is no cause of restriction belonging to earth and the other [elements], it would follow that the body would be a common locus of sensation of pleasure and pain for all selves. But that which is restricted to individual selves—there it is known that karma, the cause of the body's origination, is the cause of this restriction. For the accumulation of karma restricted to an individual self, when ripening, produces and establishes a body as a locus of experience only for that self in which it resides. Thus, in this way, it is understood: 'Just like the cause of the body's origination, karma is the cause of [its] connection.' But we designate the restriction to individual selves as the connection of the body with the self.