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[Lord Mahavira's Twenty Seventh Birth
karmas. Did they also pardon her? Never! Devarani suffered hundred-fold for her evil deed now in the form of this interchange of embryo and thus had to clear her account of karma that stood in her name in the form of theft and lie. Such miserable conditions of the souls are really pitiable. But the wonder is that they do not give up their habit of doing evil deeds even when they are instructed not to do so by the Preceptors, saints and scriptures. They do not know that the karmas are like seeds; one seed after being sown produces hundreds and thousands of fruits. The fruits in their turn contain seeds inside them, and these seeds again produce fruits, and the cycle of seed and fruit goes on until and unless the seeds are incapaciated for gerniinating or destroyed altogether. The same thing holds good in the case of the karmas. We will write about them in detail later on.
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