Account of Jainism

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is the root of human activity? What is the exact nature of the Karman? How far is the soul determined by his Karmas ? What liberty of action does Jainism allow? Is the Jain Ethics a deterministic system like that of the Vedic pantheism? What is the influence of Dharma on human actions as moulded by the previous Karman? Why did the holy teachers labour, if the Karman was the master of man's destiny? Such questions that form the very essence of morality crop up in view as soon as we come face to face with the genesis of human activity. We can hope to give but a brief reply to these problems, in the spirit of Jainism. So we might begin by asking ourselves,
WHY DOES MAN ACT? Who else, if not God, makes him a hero in the strife of life? Whence is the strife at all ? It is one of the paradoxical but still true premises from which every system has to start that gives an answr to this question.