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once help the eventual attainment of that state of emancipation free from tinge of Karma.
Friends, have not Russia, America and other big powers manufactured atom bombs and hydrogen bombs in huge quantities? If there could be no end to them except by explosion, would that not lead to the destruction of the whole world?
The talks then of military pacts of disarmament would be futile. Such talks could be held only if there was possiblity of making these destructive weapons ineffective without exploding them.)
And that is the fact. If the treaty of disarmament is agreed upon, the connecting wire with the bomb that contains the strength of the destructive bomb will be delinked. With the delinking of the wire, the force of destruction of the bomb will be destroyed. It means that inspite of retaining intact its original nature of destruction, its dreadfulness will be totally destroyed.
In this way, this bomb will turn a damp squib. The world will have the good fortune not to experience its dreadful havoc. Because the bomb was destroyed, not by explosion but by being rendered ineffective.
Similarly the human life which we experience at present is due to the explosion of the time-bomb of particles of Karma that possessed such a nature. Whereas in the present life wel destroy the time-bombs of molecules of Karma endowed with the nature of giving animal birth by not exploding them but rendering them powerless as damp squibs.
In consequence, we do not have to put on the body of an animal or of any other kind of life just as we now have the body of human life.
The destruction of the bomb lies in its explosion as well as in its being reduced to a damp squib.
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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 |