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and evil thus lead to pleasure and pain and there is a mathematical ratio between virtue and pleasure and vice and suffering. In this way every man is accountable for his good and bad deeds.
Transmigration
The laws of rebirth and transmigration of Jīvas follow as the consequence of karma. No child is born out of nothing; it is not born with an empty mind. It does not evolve from the parents and follow the laws of heredity. Every child is born with certain predispositions or vāsanas which are retained in the subtle body, as the effect of no deed is lost. When a person dies, the gross body alone is dissolved but the subtle body of the Jīva remains, retaining all the effects of its karma. The Jīva then enters into a new body suited to its past karma and is born again. Thus every birth is the result of past karma and is the cause of a new body and birth. Just as a man throws away worn out garments and puts on new garments, the Jīva throws away worn out bodies and puts on new bodies. Just as there is continuity in a man's life from infancy to old age and personal identity, so there is continuity of the same Jīva in the series of births and rebirths and personal identity. There is identity in spite of numerous births and this is due to the eternity of the Jīva.
The adventures of the Jīva in the world of saṁsāra are not confined to this earth alone. It migrates from
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