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adversely, he becomes the jailer and if we are discordant, we become the judge!
Answer: No, this is not strange. This itself is ‘Anekantavada'. Things are different for oneself and others, like, in the case of beneficence - if one has been good to someone, one should not remember it, one should forget it. If someone has done you a favour, you should remember it and never forget it.
One should never praise one's own good deed and should not miss out on praising someone else's good deed. It is thus affirmed that when someone behaves unfavourably with us, he is the jailer of the court of Karmasatta whereas if we behave adversely towards · others, we are the unappointed judge who is interfering with the working of the court of Karmasatta.
Anekantavada = Doctrine of manifold predications/nonabsolutism.
अघटितघटितानि घटयति, सुघटितघटितानि जर्जरीकुरुते ।
विधिरेव तानि घटयति, यानि पुमान्नैव चिन्तयति ।। Karmasatta makes undesirable events manifest and blows away desired events. Only destiny can shape things which a
soul may not have contemplated even in his dreams.
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