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[ Eleven Ganadharas of the Lord and their history
mean that a man is sure to be born as a man in his next birth. You cannot even prove this by arguments. You know that thousands of worms and insects take their birth in the fruits and flowers, scorpions are produced by cow-dung, and innumerable big and small insects are seen alive between two slabs of stone. Therefore, your opinion about the next birth is not correct. The man, who is gentle and kind may be reborn as a man after death, but he, who is deceitful and unkind, cannot. He is sure to get a low birth. The good or bad birth of a Jiva depends upon its Karmas. The Karmas alone are responsible for the dissimilarity in the creation. There is no such an absolute rule of Nature that effect must always concur with cause; for you have seen that fire produces smoke which is quite unlike it in form,and water,which is cold by nature, produces electricity, which is hot."
This explanation satisfied Sudharma, who now willingly offered himself with his 500 disciples for consecration before the Lord and accepted his disciple-ship.
The sixth Pundit, named Mandita, was troubled with a doubt viz. Whether there were such things as bondage, shedding of the Karmas and liberation or not? He came to the Lord with his 350 disciples and after bowing respectfully to him sat down in the Samavasharana beside him. The Lord disclosed his doubt at once and said," Mandita Ji ! It is beyond doubt that the Soul is subject to bondage and liberation. The causes of bondage are perverted belief, non-renunciation, negligence, passions and activities. These causes bring about hundreds of results which cast a Jiva in all sorts of Karmic bondage. The Jiva, who is thus bound by Karmas has to take birth in the four main grades of existence; Hell
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