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MIRA AND MAHAVIR
You agree that there is dissatisfaction, failure, pain and death in the world: don't you?
KRISHNA-I do not deny the reality of sorrow and pain. Indeed, all action is undertaken to escape them. Only man succeeds in the attempt but for a momentand that is the cause of action without end. Satisfaction, success, pleasure, life-do not last, and soon change to their opposites. That is the character of Nature and all that is in it. Didn't you say that all Nature is subject to the law of Change? MAHAVIR-Yes. Then how is it that all human action is meant to secure pleasure or success for the individual ?
KRISHNA- All human action has this object in view; but it is frustrated by forces outside-that is, Nature, which is subject to the law of Change.
MAHAVIR Do you imply that all individual human action is intended to be good, but is frustrated by Nature? That means a good humanity, and a wicked Nature or a wicked world.
not say
that Nature is purposeless
But what is the point of your
KRISHNA-Did you
and blind?
MAHAVIR I understand. argument ?
KRISHNA-Now if all individual human action has for its object something good, and if that good soon changes to something different, what is the cause of it all?
