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PUNYA AND ITS FRUITIONS. two elements. Instances are not wanting to show in how many cases, the love of the good is as powerless as the knowledge fully practis. thereof. Very often it happens that a intelligence man who knows good and entertains as well a love for the same, yet fails to adjust his Karma for the achievement of the same. Who has not seen how many a generous soul, though uniting wisdom and enlightment in his being yet succumbing before temptations? Evidently, therefore, as the Jain sages hold, there must be, in addition to love and knowledge, something else in Punya as forming one of its fundamental factors. And this additional element is the supreme effort, an act of personal resolution without which a Punya cannot be practised and completed. Revealing as it does in the form of last choice, the final decree for immediate execution without further deliberation, this third element is called the Virya, the power or the will-to-do. Virya is the faculty of initiating a change which is not determined by any anterior change. Thus is Virya identical with the ultimate authority or liberty which is a
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