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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Karma sticking to the soul at the time. The upsurge of ordinary feelings does the work of merely sticking the molecules of Karma to the soul, whereas the exalted kind of such upsurge at the time of doing a good deed and the most dreadful kind of motivation underlying an evil deed will too closely fuse the corpuscles of Karma with the soul.
The crux of the matter is that the soul will be helpless to do anything during the penden cy of the dormant period of the molecules of Karma of good or wicked nature which get closely assimilated with ihe soul. They will rest only after their time bombs have given their effect by explosion on the expiry of the period of their dormant state.
We come across happy and influential persons who are not only unwilling to accept but also striving to shun public honours and receptions but are constrained by the compulsion of circumstances to receive them against their will. It often happens in cases of some who are blessed with immense happiness but are detached at heart and are intensely eager to relinquish this happiness and live a saintly life of austerity but are unable to do so and forced to pass a life of enjoyment as a householder. It would not be wiong to assume in all such cases that the above acts of such people would have been accompanied by great mental ecstasy while attracting the molecules of Karma of the liappiness causing nature and consequently these Karmas of theirs would have been closely fused with the soul and are now standing in their service to give them fruit of their established nature.
Lord Mahavir in his several past lives committed such grave blunders with such wicked feelings that the corpuscles of Karma that stuck to his soul at the time were intensely unified. During the dormant state of those molecules of Karma, the Lord practised extraordinary rigorous religious penances, fasts and austerities. But these could effect no change in the nature of those Karmas to give pain as their nature of adherence was of the fourth category.)