Mahavira Jayanti Smarika 1981

SR No.: 014033
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Gyanchand Biltiwala
Publisher: Rajasthan Jain Sabha Jaipur
Publication Year: 1981
Total Pages: 280
Language: English, Hindi
Classification: Seminar & Articles
File Size: 20 MB

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bers of little "volcanos" of light cons- The law of karma is the ultimate law of tantly exploding into the ait above the the Universe, the unerring law which ad. leaf, and all in unceasing motion. To him effect to cause on the physical, mental whose sight may be compared to the justs and spiritual planes of being. It is Kirlion photographic capacity, every neither moral nor personal. It is just a tree, shrub, and leaf must offer a world natural law. Reaction is equal and of indescribable wonder.
opposite to every action. The idea of
supreme being accounting our actions Due to the resultant force of these and keeping vigilance over our mental bodies the soul is drawn into a new modifications is meant only for those womb on its being released from its people who can not grasp the subtle gross physical body in consequence of aspect of matter and spirit. What we death. As for the circumstances and call as character is the force of subtle conditions of the future life, the rule is bodies. It is the aim of human life that the soul being the maker of its own to reduce and demagnetise this force by body and liable to be affected by its inducing positive thoughts and neutrasurroundings, impressions, tendencies lising the negative ones every now and and beliefs, the organising forces of then; to enjoy, as much as possible, the the two inner bodies referred to above natural function of soul i.e. happiness, are modified at the end of each incar- bliss. nation, giving rise to differences in bodies from life to life. Hence, whether an I t will now be apparent that the individual is born in pleasant or disag. Spirituo-material complex is a work of greable surroundings, whether he incar- the law of karman which is inexorable nates among men or animals, whether in its application, All schools cf Indian he is endowed with strong common- philosophy accept this law of moral sense cr is devcid of it, and other such causality without exception. All worldly differences of temperament, environ. phonomena owe their appearance to the ment and the like, are all due to the law of karman, and the Buddhists appear different tendencies by him in the past. to have believed in the cosmic aspects
of the karman. Scholars have discovered Thus the accounting of our actions in the cosmic aspects of the karman. is not only automatic but instantaneous Scholars have discovered in the Prakrati too. There is no external agency to of Samkhya-yoga and the maya of Adva. record an account. It is a law of cause ita Vedanta the characteristics of karman. and effect. As we sow so shall be reap.
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