Vedanta philosophy : five lectures on reincarnation / By Swami Abhedananda.

  • Abhedānanda, Swami.
Date:
1902
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    new desires. These desires are called in Vedanta, Viands. V^an&s or strong desires are the manu- facturers of new bodies. If VasanS, or longing for worldly pleasures and objects remains in anybody, even after hundreds of births, that person will be bom again. Nothing can prevent the course of strong desires. Desires must be fulfilled sooner or later. Every voluntary or involuntary action of the body, sense or mind must correspond to the dormant im- pressions stored up in the subtle body. Although growth, the process of nourishment and all the changes of the gross physical body take place accord- ing to the necessarily acting causes, yet the whole series of actions, and consequently every individual act, the condition of the body which accomphshes it, nay, the whole process in and through which the body exists, are nothing but the outward expressions of the latent impressions stored up in the subtle body. Upon these rests the perfect suitableness of the animal or human body to the animal or human nature of one’s impressions. The organs of the senses must therefore completely correspond to the principal desires which are the strongest and most ready to manifest. They are the visible expressions of these desires. If there be no hunger or desire to
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