Prabuddha Sampada Agam Grantho Karmvad ane Anekantvadno Sanchay

SR No.: 034161
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Publisher: Mumbai Jain Yuvak Sangh
Publication Year: 2018
Total Pages: 321
Language: Gujarati
Classification: Book_Gujarati
File Size: 14 MB

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one keeps a record of our good or bad deeds and if I am born again, so then how will it be l who is born punishes or rewards us. It's all clever ruses to make us again? The creature born again is not me. It's someone behave. We came from animals and often behave like or something else. So I only have this life to love myself, them. The concept of punishment for bad deeds whether love life and the people around me in that order. Only in this life, another life or in hell — is all to terrorise us this life has "me" as me - no other. Only this life to do into behaving.
what's right. There is no karma; there is only now. This How much simpler it would be if we taught our does not mean the 'now' is important. If we came into children to be kind because that is the right thing to do being in such a random manner, we are nothing. But I — not just to avoid bad punishment afterwards... am going to live it the best I can. Without too much of a
I don't think we were built for a higher purpose. I fuss." think we came into being — it took millions of years for
XXX bacteria to evolve into us and we cannot process or The three of us, we have been together for several handle the fact that it was all a random series of years through life's journey as fellow travellers with our occurrences. We have a need to make our life own concepts and views on life, religion, politics and something. So we endow it with a God, a divine maker, the world at large and yet we are together and with each who was so bored that he needed a playground to reflect other - what better proof that we are held by a deep his existence and to entertain and validate him. Or we karmic bond. say that there is continuity to our spirit. What that is, is
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I t is all a swing between destiny and free will and scientific fact. The amount of mass in this world does that combination for me is Karma. The thoughts I have, not increase or decrease. Which means, we will remain these words I write, the steps that I take, everything is here in one form or another... we simply get recycled. propelled by and constitutes of Karma.
Karma is a way of trying to make us behave. But the law is simple - each experience is repeated it's negative reinforcement. We should do what's right or suffered till you experience it properly and fully and because it is right. Not because we don't want learn the full impact. punishment.
And yet.... It is all beautiful because it is all Importantly, I think I only have this one life. The key perfectexactly the way it was meant to be. word is 'T'. The 'l' that exists right now with all my thoughts and the essence of me - that will anyway change even
KARMAVAD AND GOD
The celebrated and British theoretical physicist philosopher of this and cosmologist STEPHEN HAWKING has asked a century, said, 'The sole remaining task for question in his best-seller book, 'A brief History of Time'- philosophy is the analysis of language.' What a - Where did we come from? Why is the universe the comedown from the great tradition of philosophy from way it is?
Aristotle to Kant!' He has also challenged the theory that God In 2010, he has again set off Science v/s Religion created Universe by stating that the universe is debate by dismissing the role of God as Creator of governed by a set of rational laws.'
Universe, by publishing his book 'The Grand Design'. In his conclusion he writes (Pg. 190-191) 'Upto In this book he has said (Pg. 171-172). 'The laws of now, most scientists have been too occupied with the nature tell us how the universe behaves, but they don't development of new theories that describe what the answer why? universe is to ask the question why. On the other hand, 1. Why is there something rather than nothing? the people whose business it is to ask why, the 2. Why do we exist? philosophers, have not been able to keep up with the 3. Why this particular set of laws and not some other? advance of scientific theories. In the eighteenth century, Some would claim the answer to these questions philosophers considered the whole human knowledge, is that there is a God who chose to create the universe including science, to be their field and discussed that way. It is reasonable to ask who or what questions such as: did the universe have a beginning? created the universe, but if the answer is God, then However, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the question is merely been deflected to that of science became too technical and mathematical for who created God. We claim, however, that it is the philosophers, or anyone else except a few possible to answer these questions purely within the specialists. Philosphers reduced the scope of their realm of science, and without invoking any divine inquiries so much that Wittgenstein, the most famous beings.'
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