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Hindu Medicine c8.218

Hindu Medicine c8.218

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c8.218

The new being, which grows in the womb, acquires its individual characteristics through a threefold heritage: from father and mother, and from the formative and limiting forces which inhere in the subtle body shrouding the incorporeal life-monad, the indestructible self. The tangible appearance, or material body, inherits its firmer parts from the father, the softer ones from the mother: