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But the interesting paradox is that knower cannot be in focus as it is engaged in knowing.
Mahavira said, "Gautama, energy is the origin of activity."
Spirituality is to find out the rules governing the co-existence of a perennial soul and a transitory body. Jain ascetics gave elaborate thought to the realm of life and death. They established that everything in the world is part of a causal process and cannot exist in or by itself; that things are interdependent, and that this is true as much for human beings as for physical phenomena. The world was continually created by the actions, good or bad of human beings and found a self-sustaining mechanism of systematic operation of total deterministic control over destinies, which operates endogenously as natural universal law, self-regulating through the working of actions or karma. Whatever an individual does is his Karma. Karma is an Indian word and a perfect meaning of action. Living being cannot exist in the world without Karma. Karma resided in intention, expressed or not, as much as in action. All that we say, do or think affects our lives and creates consequences that haunt or help us. Every action, whether it is physical or mental, has its effect. Burn with rage, and anger sears itself into our brains, speak with love and love conditions our mind. One is free to do karma but equally liable for its reaction. One cannot escape the consequences thereof. The individual and it alone is responsible for all it does. Nothing can intervene between the actions which one does and the fruits thereof. One always reaps what one sows; there is no shortcut. This is the principle of karma.
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