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have Rajasi or Tamasi. Some have a simple mind, others have a materialistic one. Thus it is possible to find a great variety of minds. Similarly some have a very fierce nature, some less fierce and others have a calm one. Some are greedy, some scheming, some untruthful while others are pure and dispassionate. Some have negative while others have civilised influences. All this is apparent while observing every individual human, animal or bird.
So naturally the question arises - how is that? In spite of all being human as humans are, or in the same way all being animal as animals are, why should there be this difference? Why is the snake - poisonous, tiger - cruel, cheetah - violent, pigeon - scared, and cow - timid? Similarly, why is there so much difference in, say, four off-springs of the same parents?
Science searches for the answer to these questions. And, of course, the child does have the character of the parents, their nature, appearance, colour and so on. But that is so far as the similarity with the parents goes. But what is the reason for that which is in the child and not in the parents? To this science has no answer. Doctors also admit that all this happens naturally. But what is Nature? And why did it do this? What was Nature's intention in creating such a variation between two blood brothers? Science is mum. But the Karma Philosophy in Jainism offers an answer to this.
No two jivas' karmas are ever identical. Wherever and whatever atmosphere or circumstances a jiva gets, it survives accordingly. And there is bondage of such karmas. Even under similar circumstances, a jiva continues to bind karma in accordance with its own ability. Two children born from the same mother's womb have varying temperaments. They both may have been tied up in some specific relations with each other and with the parents, in previous births, but their karmas were acquired independently. And these karmas become an influence and get attached to a jiva. Hence, the jiva carries them along into
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| SR No. | 006791 |
| Book Title | I am The Soul Part 02 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Tarulatabai Mahasati |
| Publisher | Shri Gujarati Shwetambar Sthanakwasi Jain Association |
| Publication Year | |
| Total Pages | 466 |
| Language | English, Hindi |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 18 MB |