Chicago Prashnottar

Author(s): Vijayanandsuri
Publisher: Atmanand Jain Pustak Pracharak Mandal

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thieves who commit thefts themselves are not able to punish themselves for their nefarious deeds. It is another man who
sends them to a prison. A.-This statement is also fallacious. When
men are competent to do right or wrong actions, why are they not competent to enjoy their fruits themselves ? According as a man does right or wrong, he becomes the cause of enjoying its fruits himself. A theif commits theft. The king punishes him or the thief is affected by such unclean diseases as leprosy, ul. ceration &c. It is not unoften that such a man dies being burnt by fire, or being drowned in water or being cut up by a sword or killed by a cannon ball or bullet or being destroyed by the fall of a building or a rock or is turned a starving wretch.
In various such ways, he undergoes the punishment for his evil deeds. In such a case, there is no need of the intervention of God. It is only the cause that fructi