Karma Philosophy

Author(s): Virchand R Gandhi, Bhagu F Karbhari
Publisher: Devchand Lalbhai Pustakoddhar Fund

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always generated in the incarnation just next before. [erry:]
Class 6. is that karma which gives the living being the various factors of his objective individuality, Voice, colour, features, etc. It makes him Mr. Smith or Mr. Jones ; his personality. [TIR.]
Class 7. determines the surroundings, the family into which he is born, whether high or low. The birth into a certain family is not an accident, according to the Jain philosophy. It is dertermined by a certain kind of karma. There is really no such thing as 'accident, the word is only rightly used for those phenomena for which no explanation can be given ; the Jain (Sanskrit) word for accident' means "I do not know from what it has taken place". (mia] annan Class 8. is the kind of karma which, like the 4th, also acts as an obstacle, but to different things; in the 4th there was no desire of acting in the right way; in this 8th there is the desire to do something good, to enjoy certain good things, but still, although you have the desire, certain obstacles come in the way, you cannot do it. [ratia.]
We must know how the karma is generated, how it is worked out before its time, how long it would stay with us, &c.
Karma is generated by reason of certain impeljent forces within us, and these impellent forces need