Book Title: Encyclopaedia Of Jainism
Author(s): P C Nahar, K C Ghosh
Publisher: Satguru Publications

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________________ for man and this is what an astrologer might fore-tell for us, that we have apportioned to us so much good and evil fortune --so much of the good and evil actions of our past lives which will react on us in this life. (4) By Udirnd Karma—The sages mean the karma bargands which by the resolute will and exertion of the soul are worked out into the energy of movement for the enjoyment of the jiva before they are due. Now if the jiva allows himself to be drifted from wave to wave surging in everflowing currents of karma, his destiny will no longer remains his hands but the environment will become all in all in the making and moulding of his destiny. For he will be under the complete sway of his own karma creating conditions of his being and will be reaping the consequences of his own karma without any will or individuality of his own to stem the tide of the influx. For karma-matter according to its laws and forces which it is instinct with will 587

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