Hindu Medicine c8.220

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c8.220

The faculties and energies which activate the bodily frame belong to the subtle body. The subtle body clings to the life-monad as the fateful consequence of actions and tendencies in earlier existences; its qualities are the result of one’s deeds and thoughts (karman) during former lives in the round-of-rebirths. Together with the bodily inheritance from both parents, upon which the life-monad alights through the attraction of selective affinities, the particular virtues or deficiencies inhering in the subtle body predetermine the life and fortunes of the being to be born; they spell his destiny:

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