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the permanent higher vehicles of the Jivatma. Just as the contact of the needle with the
impressions on the gramophone record reproduces sound, just as the contact of the
mind with the physical brain reproduces memory of experiences gone through in this
life, in the same way, the contact of the higher consciousness with the Samskaras or
impressions in the higher vehicles of the Jivatma reproduces memories corresponding
to the Samskaras contacted. The vehicle which is the repository of all these Samskaras
is called ‘Karana Sarira’ in Vedantic terminology because it is the repository of all the
germs of future experiences.
It will be seen from what has been said above how the experiences and the cor-
responding memories of the different personalities scattered in different conditions of
class, time and space are integrated in the consciousness of the Jivatma who has
passed through all the experiences and is the real sower and reaper of the Karmas ac-
cruing from them. Seen in this light, reaping the bitter fruits by a personality for the
wrongs done by another personality which has gone before does not involve any injus-
tice because the different personalities are expressions, under different conditions, of
the same entity though they may not be aware of the fact in their physical conscious-
ness. A particular personality (Jiva) is not aware of the whole series of experiences
and Samskaras but the Jivatma is, and in the long uninterrupted series of actions and
reactions sees the natural working out of the law of Karma and no favouritism or in-
justice whatsoever. We do not grumble when we find that the unpleasant experiences
which we have to go through are the direct result of our own folly or wrong-doing.
And neither does the Jtvdtmd before whose vision all the past lives lie like an open
book.
The manner in which the over-all memory of the Jivatma enables him to see the
perfect working out of causes and effects even though they are scattered over different
lives in an irregular manner can be illustrated by a simple diagram given below: