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not get wealth. If the past karmas are good, with little effort, all activism, man will he will get more. But quite a contrary spectacle presents. Man pins his faith in the principle of activism in the matter of mundane recources which in fact are governed by past destiny and remains passive, indifferent and even hostile in the matter of religion which ensures spiritual progress to liberation and until it is obtained confers even excellent kinds of material happiness for the future. If faith cannot be had in the purifying, healing and uplifting touch of religion, this much religion at icast helps that a man of religion bears his adversity with cheer and recoils from sin to drive it away, whereas a man withou Iuligion will hold others to blame for his misfortunes and commit many evil deeds to boot to and his misery.
While Jainism believes that man reaps the fruits of his cwn Karmas, it at the same time asserts that the decrees of fate written by the bondage of past karmas are not in all cases unalterable.
Man has the power to modify, moderate and even to nullify the effects of all kinds of karmas except the ones called Nikachit, that is those that have been too closely fused with the souls. Jainism, therefore, exhorts that by remaining engaged in good thoughts and by resort to good deeds, one can transform the nature of the pain producing Karmas into the one of happiness producing karmas. Similarly, it warns that as a result of evil thoughts and evil deeds, the nature of happiness producing Karmas would be changed into the one of pain producing Karmas.
Man thus by his own deeds makes or mars his own destiny. But such a golden opportunity for a wholesome reorientation is available only in human life, which is so rare and transient. It is for this reason that Jain religion lays stress on the dedication of human life to the pursuit of religion.
Evidently, were not such transformation in the nature of Karma possible, none would have attained salvation. By
| SR No. | 007016 |
| Book Title | Karma Philosophy In Jainism |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Chandrashekharvijay, Chunilal Vrajlal Modi |
| Publisher | Kamal Prakashan |
| Publication Year | 1978 |
| Total Pages | 84 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 7 MB |