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Mahavira said, "The living world of ours is afflicted, miserable, difficult to instruct, and without discrimination. In this world full of pain, the individual beings suffer by their different acts. None can escape the effect of their own past actions. All living beings in the world experience individually the fruits of their past karmas and wander in different exigencies according to their deeds. Karmas are very powerful in this world and nothing is more powerful than karmas. Just as an elephant tramples a forest full of lotuses so also when karmas are strong, they render all other powers weak."
Spirituality means to look within and find out the cause of our action and to put an end to it. There is no happiness or misery. It is only outcome of our past deeds. Wherever we go, wherever we remain, the results of our actions follow us. Karma or action is the cause of our conduct, emotion and urges and causes certain consequences in the same way as physical actions. Our condition in life is the result of the things we do and the things we think, of our actions and our attitudes. Once done they become our masters and must fructify. The scientific principles recognized in nature are also applicable to mind and morals. There is a close relationship between our actions themselves and the intentions behind those actions and soul. Based on actions, a soul undergoes transmigration and incarnates in various states of existence.Karma is the regulating force of our emotions and circumstances. Actions are seen to have consequence, some immediate, some delayed, even into future incarnations. Today's deeds will be the future of tomorrow.
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