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CHAPTER-IX
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Liberation Through Right Effort Only
The question here is whether effort for liberation materialises according to destiny on advent of opportune time or on subsidence of delusion, etc. or through one's own persistent right effort. If the answer be that it materialises on union of first two causes, then why do you sermonise us? And if it materialises through right effort, then what is the reason that some are able to make right effort while others are not able to do so, although all listen the sermon?
Answer: Union of many causes takes place in accomplishment of one act. So, where the effort for liberation materialises, the union of all the three causes is found and where it does not materialise, there the union of all the three causes is not found. Amongst the aforesaid three causes, opportune time and destiny are not any (achievable) entities. The time (moment) of the accomplishment of an act is its opportune time and the accomplished act itself is the destiny. And the subsidence, etc. of karmas is the potency of karmic matter, of which the soul is not the doer or destroyer. And making of right effort for liberation is the duty of the soul. Therefore, the soul is sermonised to make right effort for liberation.
If the soul makes effort for adopting those means through which the accomplishment assuredly takes place, there the union of other causes is invariably found and the act is also invariably accomplished. And if the soul adopts such means through which accomplishment of act may or may not materialise, there if other causes are met with, then the act gets accomplished and if not met with, then the act does not materialise.
By the adoption of means of liberation advocated in Jina's religion, liberation invariably takes place. Therefore, that Jiva who makes effort for liberation according to the preachings of omniscient Jina, automatically gets association of opportune time and destiny and the adoption of such effort is itself the result of subsidence, etc. of karmas. Therefore, the one who makes right effort for liberation, invariably gets the union of all other causes and he assuredly attains Moksha (liberation) - this is to be believed. And the Jiva who does not make right effort for liberation, for him, the opportune time and destiny are not there and because the subsidence, etc. of karmas has
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