Samraditya

Author(s): Pushkarmuni, Devendramuni
Publisher: Shree Lakshmi Pustak Bhandar

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Karmas. But we build up a stock of the Karmas for countless births. The dirt is never cleaned by dirt, the fire is not put out by fire, only the sprinklings of cold water soothe it. In cold season, if it is only the fire and not cold water which is of use.
In the mind of Gunsen, the proverb 'Cold iron cuts the hot iron' was well-set. The wise people have called the revenge or enmity as "the 'Murbba' or 'Chattani' of Anger." Anger is never cooled by anger, nor revenge by revenge. There is no doubt that just as cold iron cuts the hot one, so only 'Aupsham' pacifies the enmity or anger.
Where many virtues are found in a person, there is one or other vice or bad point. There are thorns in the branches of a rose-plant, the lotus has mud as its origin, in Kamdhenu of the heavenly cow there ia animality and the Kalptree is inert. Similarly, the jewel is