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KARMA AND REINCARNATION
The Atman is Akarta or Nishkriya. The Atman is all-pervading. It is ever free (Nitya Mukta).
Works are extinguished either by expiatory ceremonies (Prayaschitta) or by the knowledge of the Self or Brahman, or by the full fruition of their consequences.
Smritis declare that some single actions such as the murder of a Brahmin, are the causes of more than one new existence.
7. KARMA IN THE JAIN PHILOSOPHY
Karma in the Jain philosophy is divided into eight classes: those which act as an impediment to the knowledge of truth; those which act as an impediment to the right insight of various sorts; those which give one pleasure and pain, and those which produce bewilderment. The other four are again divided into other classes so minutely that a student of the Jain Karma philosophy can trace any effect to a particular Karma Persons who by right faith, right knowledge, right conduct, destroy all Karmas and thus develop fully the nature of their soul, reach the highest perfection, become divine and are called Jainas Those Jainas, who, in every stage, preach the law and establish the order, are called Tirthankaras.
Subject to the law of Karma man has to work out the effect of his previous actions This Karma is a kind of force which holds the soul in bondage and
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