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To CONSIDER MERCY AS ABANDONABLE IS ERRONEOUS
Mercy is the inherent nature of a living being. To consider it as delusion or deluding is not correct.
Karuņāe kāraṇam kammaṁ karuņeti kim na vuttam? Karuņāe jīva-sahāvassa kammajaņidattavirohādo | Akaruņāe karuņāe kāraṇam kammaṁ vattavvaṁ | Ņa esa doso, sanjamaghādi kammānam phalabhāvena tissam abbhuva-gamādo II - Dhavalā Book 13, 5548, p. 361.
Question - Why has this not been said that the karuņā-karma is the cause of karuņā (mercy)?
Answer - No, this has not been said because mercy is the inherent nature of all living beings and, therefore, to consider it as caused by some karma is contradictory.
Question – Then karma must be a cause of mercilessness.
Answer - There is no flaw in this argument, because it (mercilessness or cruelty) has been accepted as a result of the conduct destroying karmas (infinitely bonding, renunciation - even partial - preventing and renunciation obscuring). That is to say that the reason behind cruelty or lack of mercy is the fruition of deluding karma. Therefore it is abandonable. Said in other words it means that if there is an expectation of some kind of return from the object of mercy then it is selfishness and delusion. The extent to which this flaw of delusion
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