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the visions, draw out higher instincts of the performer in their dynamic operations and there. by evoke admiration,' benediction etc., from all humanity in its track ; but should as well set up such strong action-currents that would How a Punya
works out its place him here, in the present life, in a more consequen, favourable condition and environment affording greater opportunities for a larger enjoyment of peace and pleasures of life as well as would work out for him in future, a higher and more befitting form of organic evolution as its manifesting media whereby it would be enabled to utilise in a different and higher sphere, the manifold opportunities and advantages that would naturally open to him as stepping stones to rise to a higher state of being and happiness. This is how the seeds of Punya sown in one life bear fruits both in the pscychical, and physical worlds, according to the law of Karma-causality for enjoyment in a subsequent life.
The action-currents set up by the nine kinds of Punya are of various pitches and types. But for convenience sake the Jain sages have classified them into fortytwo kinds in and through which a jiva
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