Karma Philosophy In Jainism

SR No.: 007016
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

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has to be reborn in the world and undergo the same pangs of birth, death, why should it then invite the sufferings of renunciation and fasts discarding all visible sensual happiness
It is thus a decided fact that if a pure soul were created, it could never be thrown in the whirlpool of worldly sufferings.
Hence, the soul that is subject to the aches of birth etc could not be pure and therefore our proposition that soul was never created is proved.
Moreover, when a being took birth he was impure. He was associated with the feelings of attachment and aversion. Besides, his birth was due to the cause of Karma particles (which will be discussed hereafter). Where did he acquire these feelings of love and hatred and the pile of those Karma particles? There could be only one answer to this question that before this birth, this embodied soul had a previous birth where he collected the heap of Karma particles. Here the same question arises. Where did he acquire this stock of Karma particles which led to the previous birth? There could be the same answer that this pile would have been collected in a birth previous to that. In this manner, you shall have thus to posit the existence of a birthgiving Karma to every previous birth and also the existence. of a previous incarnation as the generator of every succeeding birth giving Karma.
Like the Q. E. D. of Euclid, it is thus proved that soul is not created by any being. Soul is eternal and permanent. This automatically settles another baffling question that the world where embodies souls pass from cycles of births and deaths was not created at all by anyone. It is permanent and eternal. If the world is to be believed to have been created, it leads to the enigmatic query, where did the embodied souls pass through. incessant rounds of births and deaths? With this, the third thing is proved that the union of Karma which is the entity. responsible for the creation of its mundane existence is eternal and permanent.
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