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The Science of Reincarnation,
The Toll of Karma
karmic particles were wearied out by his penance practices and self decipline, he got the truth.
But Mahaveer was still not free from other type of karma. These karma were good in nature. These were the good actions he committed in several of his previous lives. What will happen to them? Unless this bond is broken, he can not be free from the cycle of birth and death. He was thus left with a tremendous freedom of will. He thus used this freedom of will for the benefit of society. He preached all over the continent for next 30 years. He traveled a lot on his bare feet and at the age of 72 years when the bond of all his good karma and soul was broken, he attained what is aim of every one's life, freedom from the clutches of reincarnation. Because of the demand of the time he added one more principle to four principles of 23rd Tirthanker Parasnath as discussed above. This is the principle of practicing celibacy or chastity. Till today Jain monks follow these five principles - the nectar of absolute knowledge.
Mahaveer found the root cause of all the problems. One of the fact is simply nothing but the ignorance of the truth. Because of manipulation of this factor one is in the clouds of passions. We have discussed earlier that these passions are nothing but cement, glue or a bonding material for
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