Sambodhi 1994 Vol 19

Author(s): Jitendra B Shah, N M Kansara
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

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ARVIND SHARMA
SAMBODHI According to Mahāvīra, the painful condition of the self is brought about by one's own action, and not by any other cause. Pleasure and pain are brought about by one's own action. Individually a man is born, individually he dies, individually he falls, and individually lie rises. His passions, consciousness, intellect, perceptions, and impressions belong to the individual exclusively. All living beings owe their present form of existence to their own karma.18
Thus all the three ancient religions of India are united in proclaiming man to be the architect of his own destiny - be it spiritual or secular.
REFERENCES : 1. Surendranath Dasgupta, A History of Indian Philosophy Vol. I (Cambridge University
Press, 1957), pp. 71-74; Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan and Cliarles A. Moore, A Source Book of Indian Philosophy (Princeton University Press, 1965), p.xxix.
Haridas Bhattacharyya, e., The Cultural Heritage of India, Vol. I (Calcutta : The Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture 1958), pp. 537-546.
See J.N. Farquhar, The Crown of Hinduism (New Delhi: Oriental Books Reprint Corporation, 1971)), Chapter III; Huston Smith, The Religions of Man (New York: Harper & Row, 1958), p.77; S. Radhakrishnan and P.T. Raju, The Concept of Man (Lincoln, Nebraska: Johnson Publishing Co., 1972), p.234, etc.
Kenneth W. Morgan, ed., The Religion of the Hindus (New York: The Ronald Press Company, 1953), pp. 129-130.
T.M.P. Mahadevan, Outlines of Hinduism (Bombay: Clietana Ltd., 1960), pp. 60 61.
Kenneth W. Morgan, ed., The Path of the Buddha (New York: The Ronald Press Company, 1956), p.85.
Ibid., pp. 90-91. Also see M. Keller-Grimm and Max Hoppe, eds., The Doctrine of the Buddha The Religion of Reason and Meditation by George Grimm (Delhi: Motilal Banasidass, 1973), pp.196-199.
Surendranatlı Dasgupta, op. cit., p. 207.
Mrs. Sinclair Stevenson, The Heart of Jainism (New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal, 1970), p.60.
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T.M.P. Mahadevan, ed., op. cit., pp. 60-61.
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Haridas Bhattacharyya, ed., op. cit., p.540. Aslo see Kenneth W. Morgan, ed., The