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AN EPITOME OF JAINISM.
energy of his past actions, Karma, which Mrs Sinclair on the Law can no more be affected by love or prayer of Karma and Rebirth than a run-away locomotive. On and on
it goes remorsely dealing out mutilation and suffering, till the energy it has amassed is at last exhausted and a merciful silence follows. The belief in Karma and transmigration kills all sympathy and human kindness for sufferers, since any pain a man endures is only the wages he has earned in a previous birth. It is this belief that is responsible among other things for the suffering of the thousands of childwidows in India who are taught they are now reaping the fruit of their own unchastity in a former life."
So writes Mrs. Sinclare in exposing the so-called 'Empty Heart of Jainism and in vindication of her Christian creed. But alas ! she can not explain the world of inequalities and diversities from the stand-point of her own Christian Theology. If an All-mercy Personal God created this universe out of nothing, could He not make all things good and beautiful and all beings happy? Why one is a born saint and another a murderer?
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