Jain Journal 1982 07

Author(s): Jain Bhawan Publication
Publisher: Jain Bhawan Publication

Page 34

JULY, 1982
The Uttaradhyayana, 4.4 reiterates that kammasa te tassa u veyakale na bandhava bandhavayam uventi: one's relations cannot share the fruits of a person's actions when they mature. In the same Sutra 13.29 it is emphasised:
na tassa dukkham vibhayanti naio na mittavagga no suva na bandhava ikko sayam paccami hoi dukkham kartāramevam anujai kammam
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Neither his kinsmen, nor his sons, nor his relations will share his suffering; he has alone to bear it; for the karman follows the doer.
The Uttaradhyayana 8.20 states that ..all beings will reap the fruit of their actions.
In the same Sutra 13.10 it is asserted: kaḍāna kamman mokkho na athi There is no escape from the effect of one's karmas.
Haribhadra Suri sums up pithily in the Saḍdarśana-samuccayao 48: Subhāsubha karmakartā bhoktā karma phalasya ca, the doer of good and evil deeds is also the enjoyer of the fruits of those deeds.
We conclude this topic with a verse from Kārttikeyānuprekṣā1o 76. ikko sancadi punam ikko bhunjede vivihasura sokkham ikko kavedi kammam ikko vi ya pavae mokkham.
Alone he (a person) accumulates merit; alone he enjoys happiness in heaven; alone he destroys karma; alone he attains mokşa (liberation).
Karma and Human Inequalities
Jainism explains the phenomenon of inequality among human beings as a product of good and evil karma. The Sutrakṛtānga 2.1.13 states:
Here in the east, west, north and south many men have been_born according to their merits, as inhabitants of this world, viz.. some as Āryas,
M. K. Jain (ed & tr), Saddarsana-samuccaya, Bharatiya Jnanapitha, New Delhi, 1970.
10 Quoted by J. L. Jaini: Outlines of Jainism, p. 80. Mallisena in Syadvadamanjari tr. by F. W. Thomas in his commentary on stanza XVIII states: ityekanavate kalpe saktya me puruso hatah tena karma vipakena pade viddhosmi bhiksavah : In the ninety first aeon from this a person was slain by my power. Through that maturation of karma I have been wounded in the foot; O bhiksus.