Beyond Doubt

Author(s): Padmasagarsuri
Publisher: Arunoday Foundation

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the existence of other things like water, earth etc. are not denied in the verse. If Vishnu and none else pervades the entire universe, the poet would have said "Lord Vishnu pervades in Lord Vishnu".etc.
We shall now deal in detail with the formless entity coming in contact with material substance. It is obvious that the sky which is formless comes in contact with clouds that have different forms and when the formless Atman in the body consumes alchohol, surely comes under the influence of the alchohol.
Hence that which has got form, does affect the one that is without form. The good and bad condition of the body is a cause for the mind's happiness and sadness respectively. Lord Mahavira said, As I came to know your doubt that is without form, in the same way I also know the karma of all living beings. Pleasure and pain are the fruits of the karmas. Though the soul is pure and perfect in its real nature, owing to attachment, aversion, passions sense pleasures and carelessness it acquires heaps of karma, and to enjoy the fruit of its own deeds, takes birth in this world as one of the eighty four lakh kinds of creatures.
For every action there is a definite cause for it. This has also clearly been explained in your scriptures:
"नाकारणं भवेत्कार्यम्
नाऽन्यकारण कारणम् अन्यथा न व्यवस्था स्यात्
are arupit: aafar ll"
A cause has to be for any action or activity to take place. Without cause there is no effect. For example without clay one cannot make a pot. Also for a particular effect the assigned cause has to be there. On churning water one will never get butter. Such