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I AM MAHĀVĪRA
I asked him, "Why will you penalize him? They got broken
due to their own fates. What have the stones or sticks have done to
the pots ?"
"Does it mean that fatalism is not correct?" He enquired.
"Tell me, you admitted fate when you required. You are negating it when it comes to others. The fatalism, this way, seems to be a fraud." I told him.
"How, then, the world runs, O Lord?" he asked.
I told him, "The clay pot is made by the exertions of man and clay. The efforts are successful when there are thoughts and means. Thus, there can be no shaking of even grass without effort and exertion. All the activities of human and other living beings are affected through the exertions only. They get the result according to the way they exert. A thief is penalized and a truthful person gets award. In fact, our exertion leads to our fate. The fate is the actual form of our past actions. This is the form of the earned karmas only. The maturation of the earned karmas is called as fate. Thus, we are ourselves responsible for our fate. Nobody else can affect our fate. If we act well, our life would be good. If we act bad, there will be misery in life."
"The human being is a social animal. The exertions of
every individual affect the society. We should act well and make
our society prosperous. It is our effort, which makes us what we
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