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not only prevents Karma from being accumulated but washes away the already possessed ones Thus Tapa produces Nirjara and leads one to Nirvana There are two kinds of Tapa, one is BAHAYANTARA TAPA and the other is called ABHAYANTARA TAPA-the Tapa of mind. The former is made up of fasting or eating less and tasteless food, in want of comfort and in mortification of the flesh. Mental Tapa is made up of many things viz., confession of sins and penance, obedience, modesty, self-restraint and dhayana Dhayana (meditation) in Jainism is said to be one of many important steps for taking one to one's ultimate
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The one chief point is that the theory of Karma is not the theory of fatalism It is not a theory in which the human being ss tied down to some one, bound down by the force of something outside himself in one sense there will be only fatalism; if we are free to do many things, we are also not free to do other things, and we cannot be freed from the results of our acts. Some results may be manifested in a great strength; others very weakly, some may take a very long time and others a very short time; some are of such nature that they take a long time to work out while the influence of others may be removed by simply washing with water, and that will be the case in the matter of acts done incidentally without any settled purpose or any fixed desire. So the theory of Karma is not in any sense a theory of fatalism, but we say that all of us are not going to one goal
