When the Soul separates from the body, it carries with it the causal body; merit (punya) and de-merit (paap) karma too go with it. On the strength of punya, one acquires a beautiful symmetrical body and happiness. Because of paap one will acquire an assymetrical, deformed body.  When the Soul leaves the body, the subtle body and the causal body remain together and when the scientific circumstantial evidences of atoms of the causal and the subtle body come together, the gross physical body will come into formation. At death, when the Soul leaves the body, in less than a fraction of time, it arrives at the destination predetermined by vyavasthit, and upon the union of the father’s sperm and the mother’s ovum, it attains a body. The Soul at that time is completely compressed. It does not leave the old body until the new body is ready for it. Because of its property of elasticity, it stretches its one end to the new effective body while anchoring the other to the old body. It only discards the old body when it is secured in the new effective body. 

                                                                                 Gnani Purush Dadashri

 

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