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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
Beyond Doubt
Acharya Padmasagarsuri Lord Mahavira said, As I came to know your doubt that is without form, in the same way I also know the karma of all living beings. Pleasure and pain are the fruits of the karmas. Though the soul is pure and perfect in its real nature, owing to attachment, aversion, passions sense pleasures and carelessness it acquires heaps of karma, and to enjoy the fruit of its own deeds, takes birth in this world as one of the eighty four lakh kinds of creatures.
For every action there is a definite cause for it. This has also clearly been explained in your scriptures:
“नाकारणं भवेत्कार्यम् नाऽन्यकारणकारणम्। अन्यथा न व्यवस्था स्यात् कार्यकारणयोः क्वचित ॥"
A cause has to be for any action or activity to take place. Without cause there is no effect. For example without clay one cannot make a pot. Also for a particular effect the assigned cause has to be there. On churning water one will never get butter.
Such a law of cause and effect can never be reversed or changed even a little, and also the cause does not follow the effect. From ghee you cannot get butter, from butter yoghurt cannot be got, from curds one does not get back the milk, so also you cannot grow grass from the milk.
There is lot of variety in this world. No two things and persons are alike. In this world king and beggars, masters and slaves, healthy and sick, young and old, men and women, beautiful and ugly, wise and foolish, good and bad all these dissimilarities exist.
Some are happy and some are sad, some live in palaces and some do not even have a proper hut for shelter. There has to be a cause for all these dissimilarities and that cause is termed as ‘KARMA? Hence I say karma is definitely an existing entity”.
Thus Lord Mahavira explained to Agnibhuti about karma and
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