[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Science, technology and education](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science) › [Hindu Medicine](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.zimmer-1948) › c8.220 # Hindu Medicine c8.220 Hindu Medicine c8.220 - **Language:** English ### [c8.220](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.zimmer-1948.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: - [Previous: c8.219](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.zimmer-1948.c8.219) - [Next: c8.221](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.zimmer-1948.c8.221) - [Up: c8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.zimmer-1948.c8) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.zimmer-1948.c8.220](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.zimmer-1948.c8.220) · Pramāṇa