Hindu Medicine c8.221

c8.221

“The sense faculties; perception and intellect; the amount of life-strength and life-length (āyus); happiness and suffering; and other such characteristics spring from the individualized self,” that is, from the individualizing sheath of the subtle body, shrouding the imperishable life-essence of the pure Self and carrying the impress of the effect of deeds in former lives. “These peculiar qualities cling as residual effects to the subtle body, and determine the experience of the individual in the existence to come.”