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Soul Science : Samayasara by Jain Acarya Kundakunda
none among us is omnipotent. We have our limitations. (iii) We all experience pain and pleasure as per the fruition of
our Karma. The same event gives suffering and pain of different quality to different persons. You are suffering according to the rise of your Karma, not due to Karma of others. Your wife, son, and daughter-in-law are also suffering but their suffering is in accordance with the rise of their Karma, not due to your Karma. Though we don't know about the current status of that departed soul, but we know so much that at this moment the departed soul might be in pleasant or un-pleasant situation as per rise of his Karma. Family members, doctors, etc. were Nimitta (instrumental cause) for the medical treatment, care, and comforts of the child. But the effect of all these on your grandson happened according to the rise of Karma of that
child. While explaining I also recited stanzas 247 and 250 in Hindi in verse form with their meaning with this remark that Ācārya Kundakunda is one of the greatest Ācārya of the Jain tradition. He has written these stanzas nearly 2000 years back and it appears that he wrote these lines exactly for the persons like you.
I might have taken about half an hour to explain these points. I noted that as soon as the message of these stanzas of Ācārya Kundakunda entered his logical mind he said, “It appears, today I will get a sound sleep. For the first time in the past six months I am feeling a great relief as if a heavy burden from my head has been removed.”
Now we come to the main topic. In stanzas 248 and 249, Ācārya reveals an important fact of the philosophy: One survives in accordance with the provisions of the bonded life-span Karma (Āyu Karma). It would be incorrect to have this notion that somebody got killed by him without the completion of that
