INDIAN PHILOSOPHY

COMPLETE WORKS OF DR K.C.VARADACHARI – VOL10
ascent through aspiration or yearning after liberation
and renunciation of the pleasure principle without
hugging the pain principle.
The soul can exist in a disembodied state, that is
to say, without a karma – body, or a body filled by
karma as the Jainas say. To give up the body is to give
up bondage. Such a condition is one of pure spirit.
Such a soul is freed from all kinds of prarabdha, sancita
and agami karmas, and lives a spirit. Such a soul it is
stated can get a divine body and also could freely
operate in all the worlds of God without any taint of
karma or rebirth. The divine karma of avataras to which
reference was made earlier in this paper reveals that
when the Divine work takes place also the angels or
rsis and liberated souls would be taking bodies to assist
the avatara. Ramayana mentions this as also the
Mahabharata. So is it with the disciples and workers
who also come with their leaders. So too their
opponents are said to come into the world to oppose
the Divine, even as Zoroaster posited. The purpose of
these divine births – of those who remember their
previous lives – is to protect the good, to punish the
wicked and to restore the reign of justice or law
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