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Räjgeetä
Jainism is very specific on one point. Everyone has to bear the consequences of his Karma. That is the universal, inexorable rule. Heavenly beings also cannot escape from it. Even the soul of Lord Mahavir had to live in the lowest infernal level for bearing the consequences of acute unwholesome Karma that it had acquired during the life of Triprushta Väsudev. There is no exception to that rule. In order to bring home that truth, Shrimad has observed as under in the Letter of Six Fundamentals (Appendix-II).
“All activities are fruitful; they are not futile. It is the evident experience that whatever is done has its consequence. The consumption of poison or sugar and the contact with fire or snow do not fail to produce their consequences. Similarly if the soul indulges in defiled or undefiled mode, that mode is bound to be fruitful and that produces its consequences. Thus being the Kartä of such activity, the soul bears its consequences.”
In the following stanzas the Guru takes up the points raised by the pupil regarding the soul having to bear the consequences and puts his doubts at rest.
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Bhav Karma Nij Kalpana, Māte Chetan Roop; Jiwiryani Sfurana, Grahan Kare Jad Dlicos.
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The tendency to react is a propensity of soul and is therefore conscious; the vibrations in the soul's vigor cause the lifeless particles to penetrate within. (82)
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