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Just as the sun is covered by the cloud, by these Karmas are suppressed and obscured the attributes of the infinite light of knowledge, infinite power of perception, infinite valour and infinite happiness that the soul possesses.
The particles of Karma of the sixteenth group are attracted by the good or bad activities of the triumvirate of mind, speech and body and get fused with the soul. Hence the molecules that are attracted by these activities are called Karma.
Soul has never been created. It existed in the past forever. If we believe the soul as being created, a creator of this act has also to be believed. If we believe the creator of this act as God, then God must have also his creator, and this creator also a preceding creator and this process will stretch back ad infinitum. So to find a solution to this conundrum, it has been said that God is the uncreated cause of creation. God is thus posited permanent and everlasting.
Now the question would arise, "Does not this involve the belief of the permanancy of the soul and God as the creator to boot?".
Is it not then better to believe the soul as permanent so that it might dispense with the belief of God as the creator to boot?
Besides, there is one other argument to rebut the above theory. If the soul was at all created, it could only be quite pure and sinless at the time of creation. Why should it have then to suffer the pangs of cold and heat, the aches of birth, death, old age, disease, sorrow etc. Could a pure soul have to suffer? And if for no reason, a pure soul is subject to suffering, the religious processes and disciplines for the complete purification and liberation of the soul become meaningless. Because the religious practices of renunciation, fasts, etc are meant to attain freedom from the aches of birth and death and death if after the acquisition of the perfectly purified state of the soul through the mechanics of the above processes, a soul
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| 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 |