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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
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Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
Atman and Maltija
necessarily followed by the seekers of Nirvaņa. All things being compounds dissolve into their constituent parts, and therefore, nothing migrates from one life to the other except the Kamma.
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The Karma is known as Kamma in Pali. The five Skandhas are held together and they constitute life as long as the Kamma-energy operates. With the exhaustion of Kamma the five Skandhas fall away from each other. It is necessary to understand properly the nature of this Kamma. Dahlke describes it very clearly in the following passage-"It is that potency in virtue of which action gives rise to reaction. It is that which out of the action of this life creates as due reaction the life that follows. The will of this life, the present life impulse, is like a latent energy, which, as Kamma, creates the bridge that leads to the next existence, and at the same time creates this next existence itself. The will to live, the lust of living, is the force which keeps going the endless play of action and reaction, the arising of one life out of another. Just to the extent and for the time that life is the equivalent of will, so to that degree, and during that time exactly, does Kamma arise. To the extent that this life is the equivalent of will, to that extent is concealed in the life that succeeds it. As that which unites action and reaction on one hand belongs to action, and upon the other to reaction, so, as being that which binds this life to the next, Kamma belongs to the one at to the other." He further makes it
1 Dahlke Paul Buddhist Essays. p. 25,
| SR No. | 020053 |
| Book Title | tman_and_moksa |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | G N Joshi |
| Publisher | Gujarat University |
| Publication Year | 1965 |
| Total Pages | 901 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 12 MB |