Philosophy of Soul and Matter

Author(s): Chitrabhanu, Clare Rosenfield
Publisher: Jain Meditation International Center

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intensity and duration of the person's hostility or indifference to knowledge, such a person may be born in the next life with an extremely low degree of intelligence or none at all.
A person who always helps somebody out of compassion and love acquires pleasure-producing karmas. Wherever that person takes birth, pleasure from all sides comes to him or her. Such a person is invited and received with joy.
On the other hand, someone who goes on hating and hurting people, someone who does not build a beautiful relationship with living beings builds pain-producing or bliss-obscuring karmas. Wherever he goes, people feel a kind of repulsion for him. Now the person may be doing the best he can for mankind, but because in the.past he did not care for anyone or shạre what he had with others, now people do not give him a good reception.
In addition, a person who not only harms but who takes 'life irreverently, such as a man who goes fishing, receives not only pain-producing karmas but also age-determining karımas. Such results come because he has caused pain to living life. Longevity comes to him or her who lets others live in peace.