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CHAPTER IV.
KARMAS AND THEIR FRUITS.
It is evident from the Buddhist literature that every being experiences fruits of his good and bad deeds in the very life or in the future life and that the being takes another birth owing to Sanskara or mentation of previous birth; and that as far as continuation of five spheres of body, feeling, perception, mentation and (impure) consciousness goes on, so long has the being to undergo many births and that when all the ásavās (impure thought-vitalities) will be destroyed, Nirvana will be procured.
Although Buddhist literature does not seem to give clear, direct and detailed description of bondage and fruition of Karmas, still there are scattered passages here and there which show that the writers of the Buddhist literature had in their mind the description of karmas according to what the Jain scripture says.
A metaphysician can know it by devoted and critical study. Jain authors say that there are fine karmic molecules made up of material particles floating throughout the universe. They are so fine that they cannot be known by our senses. This mundane soul attracts them according to good and bad thought-activi
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