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HERITAGE OF LORD MAHAVIRA:
“As the fruit attained corresponds to the seed that is sown, so the result we incur corresponds to the actions we eommit."
By acting in such a way as to harm others, we produce Karma which will make us suffer to a proportionate extent. And similarly, by acting so as to benefit others, we store up a corresponding amount of latent happiness. Besides, there are actions which destine our bodily constitution, our surroundings, as well as the length of our life. And there are actions, too, which determine the limits of our perception and knowledge, of our capacity to enjoy and to be successful,
Thus to produce favourable Karma by dint of good deeds is to secure the basis of a happy lot. Similarly to incur unfavourable Karma by evil deeds means to sow the seeds of future sorrow. And to stop the bondage of Karma altogether leads naturally to the removal of everything that is foreign to the soul in our personaliiy. This must be accompanied, of course, with the consumption of all the remaining latent Karmas attached to our being.
This condition of our being means self-realisation. It means that final state in which the soul, relieved of all its burdens, is soul in its pure essence. It is soul in the fullest possession of perception, knowledge, strength and joy. This is the state called “MOKSHA', or emancipation, the Salvation' of Jainism.
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The Law of Karma is the commonest of all natural jaws. In its operation in the psychical sphere, it corres
Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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