Rebirth — A Philosophical Study

7.77 REBIRTH – A PHILOSOPHICAL STUDY - TG Kalghatgi I Karma and transmigration of soul are closely linked principles They are the basal presuppositions of Indian thought Indian philosophers have not tried to prove them as they have taken them as postulates of their philosophies and objects of intuitive experience Transmigration of soul is a

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कालघाटगी कहते हैं कि पुनर्जन्म कर्म-सिद्धान्त का अनिवार्य परिणाम है, सिद्ध करने की वस्तु नहीं— ऋषभ को दस और महावीर को छत्तीस भव लगे। वे पुरापाषाण काल की समाधियों, ऑर्फ़िक तथा पाइथागोरस परम्परा से यह विश्वास जुटाते हैं और अतीन्द्रिय अनुभूति एवं परामनोविज्ञान के योगदान पर विचार करते हैं। Kalghatgi argues that rebirth follows from karma rather than being proved: Rsabha took ten lives and Mahavira thirty-six to reach tirthankarahood. He gathers the belief from palaeolithic burials, from the Orphics and Pythagoreans, and asks what parapsychology and extrasensory perception now contribute to it.

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