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JAINISM alone is responsible for his own condition of weal or woe; he is his own punisher and rewarder, his weal or woe being the result of the reciprocal interaction between himself and the rest of the world. And one way of producing weal is to relieve suliering, even when we know the person brought it on himself (or herself); though a person who has developed kindness of heart will, by reason of his kind-heartedness, relieve such misery, and not by reason of knowing it will bring hini future wcal; and only the hard-hearted will use the false argument that the sufferer brought it on himself and that we need not trouble about his suffering, that he deserves all he gets.
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