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sophy. Some of the other philosophies have made God the all-powerful while some think the soul to be everlasting while others make it transiant. Due to these hypothesis inherently different the Doctrine of Karma is not effectively dealt with by them. Those who think the world as a plaything of God are ignorant of the tremendous powers posse68d by Karmas. That is way they had to conceive God as the dispenser of the fruits of Karmas. Their meaning is that nearly all living things do evil Karma, but their evil fruits nobody is willing to accept, and because Karmas are non-souls, they are unable to meet out the fruit without the help of some energy. Therefore we must accept God as the dispenser of the fruits of Karmas. This is easily explained by the Jain philosophy. A living being is unwilling to accept fruit and Karmas are non-souls these two facts are quite right. But the Karmas when joined with energy develop a special power, due to this very connection, that makes them the dispensers of the fruit. The other thing is that the fruit of Karma does not depend on the will of the doer. If any body drinks a deadly poison but does not wish to die, will the poison not kill him because he does not wish to die ? This can not be. There are special powers in all things. They do not depend on others. Therefore they start action according to their strength when they get all the materials ready. The do not care for the will or otherwise of any body. Karmas havd special powers and act in their own way when the means for the generation of action come together to hand. here is no place for the will of the doer in all this. This is the real meaning of the precept of Gita "कर्मण्येवाधिकारस्ते मा wag narara". (To do Karma is in your hands, it depends on
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