Pictorial Philosophical Balpothi

Author(s): Bhuvanbhanusuri
Publisher: Divya Darshan Trust

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SOUL, KARMA AND THE GOD
Who created a soul? Who created the world?
A soul has not been created. It has been in existence for infinite time just like the sky. Karma of a being create newer forms of bodies, but any God does not create a soul. It is the body, which is created. A soul remains as it is.
What is meant by the world'? The world means land, mountains, rivers, trees etc. What are all these? They are monosensual bodies. Because of their karma, they have taken such forms. God has not created them. What is karma that causes to create such form of bodies ? Karma, too is a micro particle of pudgal.
Wind brings dirt into the homes. A Windmill is driven by air. A magnet attracts iron particles towards it. This is shown in pictures 1,2 & 3. Does any God carry out all these ? No, not at all.
Likewise karma of a living being affix particles of body on a soul. There is not any God like Brahma who is responsible to create a body.(Picture-4)
Karma make a being wander into various states. Karma attracts the means and materials of happiness and unhappiness towards a being making it happy or unhappy. Karma and not the God cause this. (Picture-5)
Nobody else but karma causes newer bodies, respectability, wealth, bungalow, illness, bondage, beating and death.
From where these Karma have come ? When a soul is immersed in God's worship, asceticism, study, charity, compassion, penance etc., good karma get stuck to it.
If a soul is involved in violence, lie, theft, merrymaking, accumulating and securing wealth, beauty etc. bad karmas get stuck to it. The Karma of a soul hide
s, strength etc. of a being, just as a lid covers the light of a lamp. If religion is practiced in a way as preached by Guru, and penance. renunciation, restraint, regular study etc. are followed after accepting the life of sadhu, it annihilates all the karmas and a being ultimately becomes Shiv, Siddha, Buddha, and freed parmatma. That means it attains moksha. (Picture-6)