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CHAPTER XIX. CHURCHIANITY AND THE LAW OF KARMA.
Christian Criticism of 'Karma'-Empty Heart of Jainism-Examination of the Criticism-Inconsistencies and Difficulties of the Christian Theology-God and Satan-Good and Evil.-Indian Widows Christian unmarried Girls.
From what has been discussed in the preceeding pages so far the inexorable Law of Karma-causality is concerned, it is Man is the perfectly clear that man is the maker of his Destiny. own Destiny. This is the main principle whereon the grand edifice of the Jain ethics is securely based. But this belief in the ethical autonomy of man making him thoroughly free and independent of the iron will of any Being outside himself cannot but irritate Christian minds.
"Instead of a God delighting in mercy, who rules and judges the fair world that He has made," writes Mrs. Sinclare Stevenson in her latest contribution, 'The Heart of Jainsm,' "the Jain have set in this place a hedious thing the accumulated
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