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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way and therefore, a particular man did this and that. Yes, sometimes such a certain state is ordained in a particular way and that impels a being to advance in that manner.
But ordinarily the opposite happens. It means that the event which could be explained to have happened at a particular time in an ordinary manner has actually come to happen at time in an unnatural manner.
It means that if that man had not accompanied this friend in the car, he would have been sitting alive at home because he had still in stock life-giving mulecules of Karma that were to last, say for five years. But as mentioned above, an efficient. cause intervened and consequently the molecules of Karma of life, which were to end at the end of five years by dropping away gradually, fell off altogether in the twinkling of an eye, having received a severe jolt.
The winding of a clock which would keep it continuing for twenty four hours is exhausted all too suddenly by a shock.
A long rope which wouid take an hour to consume by burning slowly would burn away in a moment, if ignited after being wound up in a coil.
A tank of water which would take ten minutes to empty with the cock half opened, would empty in two minutes with the cock opened fully.
Let us take another instance. A man is suffering from disease. He feels acute pain in the belly. He tries many doctors. but does not improve. Someone then advises him to take medicine from Rameshbhai, because the latter has a reputation for curing. That man takes medicine from Rameshbhai and the pain of months disappears within an hour.
How did this happen? In this instance, it might as well be argued that the medicine of Rameshbhai concided exactly with the time of the explosion of the molecules of Karma which had the nature of banishing pain and produce peace and happiness. And that explains the rationale of the happening.
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