Prabuddha Jivan 2014 08 Karmvad Jain Darshan ane Anya Darshan

Author(s): Dhanvant Shah
Publisher: Mumbai Jain Yuvak Sangh

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• PRABUDHH JEEVAN • KARMAVAD SPECIAL • AUGUST 2014
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skill, your gift for music or cooking or organising that there is continuity to our spirit. What that is, for others-is being selfish.
is a scientific fact. The amount of mass in thisch So, my concept of Karma is when I act, when world does not increase or decrease. Which I reach out, think of what to support, what to means, we will remain here in one form or anprotest against, it would be a mixture of all other... we simply get recycled. of the above that would propel me." Karma is a way of trying to make us behave. But XXX
it's negative reinforcement. We should do what's Alpana Lath Sawai's view on Karma
right because it is right. Not because we don't
want punishment. "Karma has got a bad name. Most people associate it with a sense of inevitability. like it's as
Importantly, I think I only have this one life. The bad as death. But karma is what you make of it. Key wor
key word is 'l'. The l' that exists right now with Nothing is inevitable, not even death, because
all my thoughts and the essence of me — that
all my mougns and who's to say what dies and what remains ?
will anyway change even if I am born again, so Karma is simply an interpretation we give to
then how will it be l' who is born again? The
creature born again is not me. It's someone or things that we find hard to understand or deal
something else. So I only have this life to love with. Like children suffering people who don't
myself, love life and the people around me - in understand Hinduism or karma always throw
that order. Only this life has "me" as me - no this in our face - how can children have done
other. Only this life to do what's right. There is anything to warrant the kind of suffering they
no karma; there is only now. This does not mean experience? I know how karma would explain
the 'now' is important. If we came into being in it. But, I think we use karma to shield ourselves
such a random manner, we are nothing. But / from the randomness of our existence. Our suf
am going to live it the best I can. Without too fering is random. No one's sitting up there pick
much of a fuss." ing us off one by one. No one keeps a record of our good or bad deeds and punishes or rewards
XXX us. It's all clever ruses to make us behave. We The three of us; we have been together for several came from animals and often behave like them. years through life's journey as fellow travellers with The concept of punishment for bad deeds our own concepts and views on life, religion, politics whether in this life, another life or in hell — is all
and the world at large and yet we are together and
with each other - what better proof that we are held to terrorise us into behaving.
by a deep karmic bond. How much simpler it would be if we taught our
It is all a swing between destiny and free will and children to be kind because that is the right thing
that combination for me is Karma. The thoughts to do — not just to avoid bad punishment after
have, these words I write, the steps that I take, evwards...
erything is propelled by and constitutes of Karma. I don't think we were built for a higher purpose.
The law is simple - each experience is repeated or I think we came into being - it took millions of
suffered till you experience it properly and fully and years for bacteria to evolve into us and we can- learn the full impact. not process or handle the fact that it was all a
And yet.... It is all beautiful because it is all perfectrandom series of occurrences. We have a need
exactly the way it was meant to be. to make our life something. So we endow it with a God, a divine maker, who was so bored that
Reshma Jain i he needed a playground to reflect his existence
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