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KARMA PHILOSOPHY
philosophy, would mean to stand in relation to something else, to be the cause of, to be influenced by, and to influence. Hence, because the soul is a reality ( or the individual is a reality ) it must have passed in the past through many conditions and states, and because it is a reality it would not entirely disappear at death but will exist and continue to exist in some state or other at all times. Every stage of existence is the result of the previous state.
The doctorine which gives us some explanation Definition as to how certain characteristics or factors of Karma.
of our individuality which we have at present-how these factors were produced as a resultant of forces generated in the past, this doctorine is the doctrine of karma.
Karma is according to the Jain puilosophy a reality, as a real ar the walls around us are, only the walls we see, but the karma one cannot see. There is not only one reality called karma, because karma with each person is different. Karma is that finest watter which a living being attracts to itself by reason of certain impellent forces which are in the individual; not only attracted to but assimilated by the individual itself (this doctrine of karma applies not only to human, but to all living beiogs ); and it changes the individuality of the living being. It bas bico:je a kind of stored force, and just as a conpressed spring of a watch will expand at some
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