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CAUSALITY IN MORAL WORLD.
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not possibly imagine that we are not free to think, will and act in our own ways. And with this liberty to think, not be diswill and to act in our own ways arises the responsibi. question of our responsibility for the same.
Liberty and responsibility go hand in hand. And it is impossible, say the Jain thinkers, to disunite responsibility from the agent who is at liberty to think and act in whichever way he wills for the realization of his ideal. To disown liability originating from responsibility but to enjoy the privileges accruing from liberty is not only a logical absurdity, but is indicative as well of moral depravity. Riches and poverty, fame and obscurity, power and subjection, health and disease, knowledge and ignorance, toil and pleasure, feasting and hunger, are but so many varying consequences of liberty we have and had in this life and in the past.
To think is to act and to act is to resist. Resistance is action itself which produces changes not only in the thing worked upon but also in the worker as well--for work implies waste in both. Therefore, no thought, not a single deed which
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