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JAINISM AND BUDDHISM
“The new being which is the present manifestation of the stream of kamma energy is not the same as, and has no identity with, the previous one in its line; the agregate that makes up its composition being different from, and having no identity with those that make up the being of its predecessor. And yet it is not an entirely different being, since the same stream of kamma energy, though modified per-chance just hy having shown itself in that last manifestation, which is now making its presence known in the sense-perceptible world as the new thing ” (na ca so na cha anno) -- (neither the same nor another).
(11) The tract The Bodhi Satta Ideal by the same author Narada Bhiksu.
Page 18. “No person what-so-ever is exempt from the inexorable law of Kamma. It is law in itself. It alone determines the future birth of every individual. A Bodhisatta enjoys the special privilege of not seeking birth in eighteen states, in the course of his wanderings in Sansara, as the result of the potential Kammic force accumulated by him.
Note. The above statements clearly show the same kind of description of karmas as the Jain literature says and the sains understand.
We give below some description of the karmic philosophy according to the Jain scriptures in short.
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