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You may perhaps pose a query that the whole cosmic order is the handiwork of God and how can one attribute it to the agency of Karmic molecules ? Karma is matter and can there be such tremendous energy in Karma?)
Friends, to raise any such misgivings in this Sputnik age of science is to my mind very astonishing.
Do you not take a purgative pill at times for motion ? Have you marked its potency of throwing out waste from the bowels ? This pill does the work your two hands cannot do. is not the pill a form of matter?
I will cite another example. Is not the penknife a kind of matter? Strike it on your body with force. Will that not make you shriek with pain ? Does not the penknife belong to the genre of matter? What a tremendous effect has it on Jiva ( being)?
Let us talk of a chilly. It is also a kind of matter. But if you put its powder on the tongue, it will draw out tears from your eyes, Is it not magic ?
Are not the words that you utter a form of matter? That is the reason why they are caught in a machine. What great strength does this kind of matter possess? If anybody calls you a dog, who then becomes bloody red, who raises the hand to strike and who retaliates by a volley of abuses ? Are not all these activities of a worldly soul?
And if anyone addresses you as a gentleman, what a kindly, look you would assume ? How polite you would become! What gentlemanliness you would show! Who does all this? Is not a worldly soul thus affected by word which is matter?
Ah ! see, this Pradip has put on spectacles. Of which number are they ? Number four. And let him put down the spectacles. He would not be able to read anything, Ah! it is
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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 |