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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powerless in the last birth exploded but became a damp squib. Man remained man and explosion of that time-bomb of Karma could not turn him into a dog because it had not exploded but became a damp squib. Had that man not broken the strength of that time-bomb previously, that man on the explosion of that time-bomb, in whichever life he would have been, would have been dragged after death into the womb of a bitch to prepare the physicel frame of a dog.
manner, (during the period of
In this our happiness, numerous time-bombs of molecules of pain causing nature. continue becoming damp squibs. The reason is that we had previously smashed their strength by the vigour of our good feelings. Similarly, during the period of our happy and unhappy times, numerous time-bombs of molecuies of Karma of happiness causing nature continue becoming damp squibs. Molecules of Karma might be said to possess happiness causing nature, but not a shadow or shred of happiness might be experienced from them. Even a dream of happiness would not be had because. we had completely broken their strength previously by the vigour and force of our evil feelings. The molecules of Karma whose strength has remained intact can only make us experience happiness or misery, because these molecules are such timebombs that they explode only on the completion of their dormant state and do not become mere damp squibs.)
I will illustrate this master by citing an instance. A man ate mango juice to the fill. Sometime after, he experienced shock of gas due to indigestion and began shouting seizing his belly. This is called the explosion of the time-bomb or or the outburst of a calamity.
But had this man used precaution during the period of the dormant state of juice and taken a spoonful of ginger, what good would it have done !,It ts true, fibrous pieces of juice might have remained in the belly but that would not have led to indigestion. This is called that the time-bomb became a damp squib.
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