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without the knowledge thereof is of one kind : and different is the nature of the duty discharged with a thorough knowledge of the sime and simply discharged for duty's sake with absolute indifference to the results that would accrue thereof. To show an analogous case, poison kills : but when judiciously administered by a physician efficient in the science and art of the administration of drugs, it acts like nector. And this is what we mean when we state that moksha or deliverance is derived or results from the wise discharging of duties for duty's sake.
But we the Jains hold it to be altogether meaningless or misleading, since the analogy does not hold good here : nor is there any proof to verify the truth of the statement : for, it is in and through origination, conjunction, transformation or re-adjustment, that karma can work itself out and through nothing else beyond these four ; because of the want of all manner of evidence, direct or indirect. So it cannot be maintained that moksha is derived from the wise discharging of duties for duty's sake.
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