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which was to ondow you with a fortune of a lakh of rupees might perhaps make you a multi-millionaire.)
In this manner, many mistakes of a wrong doer will be extinguished and he will get the good fortune to reap many a good fruit.
Likewise the contrary will also hold good. A man might be very virtuous in the earlier period of life, but if, afterwards, he betakes to an evil path and commits wicked deeds, the rich earnings of his former life would be wiped out. The former nature of the particles of Karma accumulated by him for causing happiness would now be modified into the one of generating pain due to his wicked activities during the dormant state of Karmas. And in case they happened to retain their original nature of producing happiness, the happiness produced would be of ordinary kind and that too of a shorter duration.
Friends, a single mistake during the dormant state of good Karmas will demolish a huge stock of merit and one good act done during the dormant state of pain producing Karmas might burn to ashes dreadful calamities likely to befall in future.
That is why the followers of the Omniscient Lords Jinas tread the saintly path of noble conduct, practise fasts and austerities, observe highest kind of chastity, consecrate their lives to the service of their religious preceptors and all the time remain cheerfully imbued with the benevolent feeling that all the creatures of the world get happiness and nothing but happiness.
Countless mistakes no noubt might have been committed in the past innumerable lives and as a result, evil natured Karmas might have stuck to rhe soul in battalions. But if you wish to ward off impending calamities of their dreadful effect or to mitigate their force, you should, while their dormant state continues or the timebomb of their effect has not exploded, fill human life with all possible noble feelings and activities and that would be a splendid achievement worthy of human life.
Friends, it has already been repeatedly stressed that it is not possible to effect any change in the nature of molecules of
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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 |