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actions? Gita offers solution and tells us that if you want to avoid this bondage, have no expectation to enjoy the fruits of your actions.
Jainism shows how this teaching of Gita can be ratiionally explained in the foregoing chapter about “Outlines of Jainism”. It should be noted that the Jain scholars have given a very detailed treatment to the Karma theory because, as already noted, they do not subsctibe to the notion that our actions and their fruits are monitored by any out side authority called “God”. They therefore explain these varieties of pleasure and pain through their Karma doctrine, which works quite automatically. They have therefore emphasized that action begins at the very moment it is conceived, and so, if there is no conception of enjoying the fruits thereof it becomes nonaction and its result does not bind. Verses 49, 50 and 51 bring out the importance of “Buddhi” and ask Arjuna to seek refuge in “Buddhi”.
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