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142 THE NINE CATEGORIES OF to America) one might go there, and when there acquire evil karma, or, in the same way through omitting to take a vow against eating certain things one is liable to eat them and so acquire karma (Apratyākhyāniki). By looking at some object with excessive love or hatred, one makes a channel for karma to enter (Dțiștiki), and by touching other objects one produces the same effect (Spristiki). Another interest. ing belief of the Jaina under this head is that sin committed in a previous existence forms a channel through which, in this life, karma may be more easily acquired (Prātityaki). The Jaina, who in all sorts of ways show their realization of the dangers of wealth, believe that if the possessor of many goods be much praised for possessing them and thus give way to conceit, he opens the way for evil karma to accrue (Sämantopanipātikī).
Machinery is guilty of destroying so much inscct life, that Jaina should only use it with the greatest caution, for a man, even if he be an employé working at the express command of a rajah whom he is bound to obey, does not therefore rid himself of his personal responsibility, but acquires cvil karma through every life he takes (Naisastriki).1 The employer, however, is also responsible, and if a servant in obedience to his master's order so acts as to injure any jiva, his guilt is shared by his master, who will also have acquired evil karma (Svahastiki). There is an expressive Gujarāti adjective 'dodhadāhyuń' applied to people who are too wise by half; when folk suffer from this in religious matters and know more than Mahāvira taught, they open the way for karma to flow in (Ajñāpanikī). Defamation also leads to karma, and if a man unjustly speaks ill of another, he has thereby opened the door to evil karma (Vaidāraạiki). The caustic wit of the Jaina shows in the next item on the list, for they teach that if a man pretends to be listening to a sermon with great interest and all the time his wits are wool-gathering, he has
i Or Naisristiki.
| SR No. | 011099 |
| Book Title | Heart of Jainism |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Mrs Sinclair Stevenson |
| Publisher | Mrs Sinclair Stevenson |
| Publication Year | 1915 |
| Total Pages | 365 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 29 MB |