Jain Journal 1971 04

SR No.: 520022
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jain Bhawan Publication
Publisher: Jain Bhawan Publication
Publication Year: 1971
Total Pages: 96
Language: English
Classification: Magazine, India_Jain Journal, & India
File Size: 4 MB

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"If he is able to go to the end of any of my theses (i.e., is able to answer any of my views-pakṣa-thoroughly) I shall become his pupil." Thus saying he approached the Jina.
JAIN JOURNAL
The Jina free from birth, old age and death and omniscient and allseeing accosted him (Agnibhuti) by his name and gotra.
"Are you thinking (i.e., is this your problem), 'Does karma exist or does it not?' This is your doubt. You do not know the meaning of the words of the Veda (and hence your doubt). This is what they mean.
"You have a doubt regarding karma. You believe that it is beyond the scope of knowledge. But you perceive the fruit (of karma) in the form of experience (or sensation pleasure, pain). Hence inference can be the means of knowledge for you (for establishing karma).
"The cause of pleasure, pain exists as they are effects, as seed is the cause of the sprout. It may be argued that a visible cause (can give rise to pleasure and pain). But this is not proper as there is incompatibility.
"That difference (which we observe) in the fruit in two cases where the means are similar, that cannot be without a cause. This difference (or particularity of the fruits), O Gautama, is an effect as the jar is (and must have a cause). Karma is this cause.
"The body of a child must be preceded by another body because it is possessed of sense-organs, etc., as the body of a youthful person is preceded by the child's body; karma is, in this case that preceding (body) (Karma-body, Kārmaṇa sarira).
"As every action must have a fruit, there must be the fruit of charity, etc., as there is of agriculture. If one were to think that mental serenity (manah prasāda―mental tranquility), etc., is the fruit of charity, then (our reply is) that it too being as much an activity (must have a fruit) and karma is regarded as that fruit of its. (This can be known) because the fruit of the nature of pleasure and pain results from it again.
"If some one thinks that only the act of charity, etc., is the fruit of mental operations, this is not true, because it (act of charity, etc.), should be known to be the cause (of the latter) as a lump of clay is (known to be the cause) of a jar."