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Some Karmas will stay less than the twinkle of an eye, some will stay for two or five days, some will stay for five, fifty or five hundred years, some will stay for lacs and crores of years, some even may have the capacity to stay for innumerable years.
Friends, you may perhaps question that if the nature of a particular conglomeration of Karma is once determined to cause the fatal disease of cancer and its duration is determined for one thousand years, does it mean that the soul will start suffering the disease of cancer from the very time of the adherence of that Karma and that too for one thousand years? If he has only five years to live, does it mean that the disease of cancer will follow him in other births in a all physical frames till 995 years ?
The answer to this question is to be very attentively noted. I have here to mention two salient features about the working of the state of duration. The first thing is that ordinarily the conglomeration of Karma does not begin evincing its settled nature from the very time of adherence. For some period of time this stock remains quite inactive. Suppose the nature of a particular pile of Karma is determined for one thousand years and that it remains dormant for ten years. It will then manifest its determined nature for the remainder of nine hundred ninety years.
I will explain to you this matter by illustration A man eats mango juice to his heart's content. Because of this heavy load, the juice will surely cause him gas. But gas is not caused from the very time the juice goes into the belly. The juice remains in the belly inactive for some two to two and half hours. Then there is indigestion and thereafter from it rises gas.
Friends, Karma is a particular kind of a timebomb. The timebomb does not explode the moment it is placed at a selected place but after one or two or tive hours at the predetermined time.
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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 |