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[Lord Mahavira's Twenty Seventh Birth
You are quite helpess, your mind and heart give way, you cannot retrace your steps, it is too late now. Can such an unjustifiable action go by the name of justice'? Should the supporters of assassination and murder be called 'judges' and 'Lords of justice'? Oh, even justice has added to the sufferings of men, instead of lessening them. To be brief, every soul has to taste the fruit of its actions sooner or later. The soul, who (as Triprishta ) had committed the fault of pouring hot molten lead into the ears of his servant, had to pay for it with interest as Lord Mahavira. Nobody should think, therefore, that karmas can be destroyed even without tasting their fruit. Had it been so, the scripture-writers should not have disparaged them. When even an incarnated being had to pay heavily for his previous deeds, nothing can be said in the case of an ordinary man. The soul is entitled for Kevalajnana and consequently for salvation only when it has cleared off its accounts with the great Banker Karmas.
It must also be remembered in connection with karmic bondage that we get happiness in return for our righteous deeds and suffer troubles for our sins. The soul of Lord Mahavira too, had sown the seed of righteous deeds in its previous lives, which enabled him to rise to the position of a Tirthankara in its twenty seventh birth and at last to attain Liberation.
We advise our readers to meditate on these lives again and again and believe that if they try at all to act according to them in their lives they would find very soon that they have learnt to make their lives happy even when they are faced with most heart-rending miseries. They can easily stop from committing sins and their life would be prosperous and happy.
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