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Friends, if you wish more enlightenment about the four operating causas elaborately, you should refer to other books which deal with these subjects since, we propose to discuss and explain these matters here in brief.
Friends, you might be well aware that there are two entities, truth and untruth existent in the world and that too since the dawn of day.
Untruth is having its tumultuous play in the world since beginningless time. Ever since then, against it is pitched in non-violent struggle the beneficial counter force of ttuth. The contest between these two forces to gain ascendency is going on since eternal time. Relatively though untruth always dominates, at varying times truth gains in strength. In the fight between these two forces at the human level, few heroic souls are able to triumph over untruth and realise truth, which is a stepping stone to the path of emancipation.
When self-realisation awakens, the soul is convinced that there exists a state of the soul known as liberation, which is free from the aches of birth, old age, death, is untouched by the excruciating agonies of diseases, is not marred by family disputes and tainted by selfish discords about woman and wealth and also by concepts of illusory happiness envisaged in their association. Birth, old age, death, are fetters to the soul. The soul experiences slavery in these bondages. In case the soul gets happiness, it is not real but chimerical like the happiness of a man under house-arrest. But it is a matter of profound regret that being habituated to corporeal conditions since beginningless time, it has become impossible for the soul to differentiate between the happiness of a fettered state and a state of freedom.
Like a spider weaving the snares of a cobweb around it by its own efforts, a worldly soul, due to attachment towards untruth and aversion towards truth and ignorance of spiritual entities, weaves for itself the coils of birth and death.
What a blind bias for untruth? What a cruel mockery of the truth of a state of release !
| 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 |