Account of Jainism

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Jainism.
The Karman is in point of its origin as original as the soul itself. The two are packed together from unbegun times. And the strife springs up as soon as the soul sets about freeing itself from this company, and ends when it attains Móksha. Not that every soul is on its way to liberation; for some of the souls do not take heed of the lessons taught by those who have accomplished liberation and hence they weave every day a web of Karman round their own selves which gets more tangled at every step. The soul is thus the efficient cause of man's activity and his destiny. But in its own pure nature, the soul is a principle of rationality only. It becomes à cause only when combined with the material of its work, the Karman. The final cause is the Moksha, which is attained by true Insight which is acquired either by the effects of previous good acts or by the teachings of the Shastras. This insight or as it may be styled, this faith is never a sufficient cause of deliverence as is held