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hands of any outside agency. It is you who will decide and make what you want to make of this life. The philosophy of karmas is the philosophy of atoms, and vibrations of your self reliance.
Also your vibrations may go in harmony with those of another person, so they pick them up. Recently an experiment proved this theory. Some scientists took a small mouse from its mother and put it into a submarine at the bottom of the ocean. Then they tortured the baby mouse, and in that moment they measured the brain waves of the mother. They showed that she felt restlessness. This demonstrates how the vibrations, even from the bottom of the ocean, can reach another mouse. So our vibrations can hurt or help, and create karmas. This philosophy educates mankind to take charge of its thoughts and actions so that they make for harmony and order.
Many-sidedness and the Divinity Within
The third principle Mahavir gave in his teaching was that it is not necessary to fight with anybody because conflict is only a misunderstanding. Our mind is limited and it cannot have comprehensive understanding of all. What you understand is partial and what somebody speaks is also partial. In these two partial aspects, sometimes the whole may not come out. You think you are fighting for the whole, but you are fighting for one part without understanding another part. And life is not made of only one part. It is connected with many parts. The Sanskrit word
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