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incompatible with morality in this necessary determinism inseparable with human nature, a deteminism which is the condition of freedom with responsibility." Not only freedom presupposes determinism, but the reverse is also true. It is true because determinism and freedom are very intimately put together in the personality of a living being. In terms of Jaina philosophy moral accountability may be interpreted as a liability for bondage. But this bondage does not take place totally according to the operation of karmas. The fact how an individual receives the fruition of karmas, plays an important part in the determination of bondage. The external behaviour being the same, milder types of bondage are due to the less passionate reception of the fruition of the karmas. Kundakunda says: "One who entertains attachment binds karmas. The soul free from attachment does not bind karmas. This is the preaching of the Jina."2 Such is in brief the Jaina theory of bondage of the soul by the Karmas.
1. A.B Lathe: An Introduction to Jainism, p. 101 2. Kundakunda: Samayaprabhṛta, verse 160
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