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strength lie in every stock of Karma. The strength of Karma depends on the kind of thought entertained by the mind.
These innumerable kinds of strengths are classified under four heads : All kinds of strength that might be termed as very weak fall in the first category, those that might be termed as weak belong to the second category, those that might be termed as powerful come in the third category and those that might be termed as highly powerful pertain to the fourth category.
We shall discuss about the strength of these separate categories designating them as the strength of the class first, of the class second, of the class third and of the class fourth.
Suppose a man deceives people under the guise of being a gentleman, dressed in fine and shining clothes, practises this art of fraud with great skill, earns a lot and brags highly of his such income. By such ill-gotten gains he leads a merry life of pleasure, does not find anything wrong therein nor experiences any qualms of conscience for such pursuits.
It is but obvious that the nature of the molecules of Karma that a man of such a mentality will attract will be one of giving unhappiness and that not for two or five years. It would undoubtedly give pains of poverty lasting continuously for a hundred or two hundred or even five hundred years. And the mentality under which the above particles of Karma were attracted being very wicked, the said molecules will have the strength of the fourth number. It means that when he will suffer misery of penury, it would be of no ordinary kind but one of dreadful privations.
The reason is that if a man does not put to good use the things acquired, he gets deprived of those things for a long stretch of time. If a soul is endowed with eyes but if these are used mostly in enjoying the beauty of women, he will be dragged after death to the incarnation o an ant, bug or to any of those species which are devoid of eyes. If the organ of sense of the ears is acquired but if it is used in listening to obscene songs by a soul, he will be dragged to some such birth as of a scorpion
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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 |