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morsel of meagre bread, one is brave while another is very timid. Even out of the two sons of the same parents, one becomes a king, while the other has to lead a very miserable life. A son, a father, a brother or a wife of whom an individual is very fond, becomes an eye-sure to him for some tiuie and becomes an object of love again. A son who has been brought up with extreme fondness by his parents, kills them. A millionaire becomes a pauper and again a millionaire, a pauper becomes a millionaire, and again à pauper.
There must be some unforeseen ageney to aceount for suel strangeness in this world. It is said,
माभृद्रङ्कयोर्मनीषिजडयोः सद्रूपनीरूपयोः सौभाग्यासुभमत्वसङ्गमजुषोर्नीरोगरोगार्तयोः । श्रीमदुर्गतयोबलाबलवतोस्तुल्येऽपि नृत्वेऽन्तरं
यत्तत्कर्मनिबन्धनं तदपि नो जीवं विना युक्तिमत् ॥१॥ 1. Kşmābbridrankayo-r-manssi jaďayoh sadrûpa nirūpayok
Saubhāgyāsubhagatva sangamajuşo-r-niroga-rogārtayok Śrîmaddurgatayo-r-bal balavatostulyo'pi nritve'ntaram Yattat-karnianibandhanam tadapi no jīvam vinã yuktimat.
I thought there is a similarity of becoming a human being between a king and & pauper, a wise man and a dunce, a beau tiful man and a defornied person, a fortunate individual and a miserable one, a healthy person and one greatly diseased, & wealthy man and a penniless one, and between a powerful person and a delicate weaklıng, there is a distinction of Bondage of Karmas; and that even is not justifiable without ofte Jiva, Indi vidual Soul.
Karma in its philosophical sense, is work, pution, vibration, action, or action-current, as our great Indian scientist Dr Jagadish Chandra Bose has recently shown. In Jaina Philosophy, the word is used with a double signification - viz-it is used not only for
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