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I am the Soul We get to meet such situations, things or people of whom the mind might never have thought, might never have desired, and what it might have thought never happens. Why is it so? A person in war, surrounded by enemies, under attack from all directions, returns home unscathed while another dies of heart failure right in his seat at home. Why! A person escapes alive from a major air crash, like our Morarjibhai, while another dies of a simple dash. In all these, the causative element is destiny. As be the destiny, so shall happen.
Fourth causative element is karma. A person begets fruits commensurate with his karmas. The jiva has been wandering in the four gatis from infinite times. It is suffering the joys and sorrows of the material world. A great person like Rama had to spend fourteen years in exile and a staunchly faithful wife like Sita was branded unfaithful.
Bhagawan Adinatha who had been born with unlimited punya, became the first Emperor and then the first Tirthankar. Yet after entering the ascetic order had to go without food and water for one long year. Mahaveer, in whose feet the three worlds should be dedicated, for whom the Devas and Indras stood in attendance, had nails driven through his ears by a forester. A princess like Chandanbala was sold as a slave on a city square. All these were caused by karma.
A hungry rat entered a house and found a basket. He thought there was something in it to eat and began to chew through the basket. What emerged was an angry snake, which swallowed the rat. That is karma.
The fifth causative element is purushartha - tremendous effort. Nothing is obtained without a tremendous effort. Sita was abducted. Ram had to make a tremendous effort and vanquish
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