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APPENDIX I - KOSAS
becoming a continually changing process of psycho physical phenomena of existence. The becoming or changing is the law of life and man continuously changes either for good or bad and this is entirely due to his own volition or will. Therefore it is clear that there is no life before or after birth without the basic will or karma of the individual and one is the master of ones’ own destiny (life and death).
Yoga does not accept that things are unalterably fixed by an external agency and stresses the need to understand the law of karma and use it for ones’ own change for the good.
As has been stated by our Masters, our self is a conglomerate of buddhi, ahankar, manas and chitta and they do get rearranged and realigned to suit the needs of karma or volition of the individual. Yoga agrees that birth precedes death and death also precedes birth so that the pair follow each other in bewildering succession. Still the soul is not a fixed and unchanging entity that passes from birth to birth. Though the individual is a composite psycho- physical unit of jiva and atma (of matter and mind),
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