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philosophy like Jaina', Bauddha”, Sankhya?, Yoga, Nyāya-Vaiseșikab and Upanişads. The fruits of the karma which are conducive to the spiritual realisation give rise to punya and those which are not conducive to self-realisation are inauspicious and they give rise to pāpa, All desire punya and do not want pāpa. However, one cannot escape the effects of punya and päpa.
The kārmic bondage that the jiva has already acquired has to be experienced and exhausted in this life or in the succeeding life.? There is no escape for the ātman from experiencing the fruits of the karma good or bad arising out of the kārmic bondage.
The Buddha said to his disciples that one cannot escape the fruits of the karma at any cost, whether you want to avoid it by various mcans, you may fly in the skies, you may enter the sea, or fall in the valley, wherever you go karma cannot be escaped and the effects of pāpa have to be experienced."
Similar views has been expressed by the great poet Sihalana Miśra belonging to the Vedic tradition. 10
According to ācārya Amitagati, we experience the fruits of good and bad karmas, that we have acquired. If we have to experience the fruits of karma from other sources, the karma that we have acquired would be meaningless. 11
1 Tattvārthasūtra 6, 3-4 2 Visuddhimaggo 17, 88. 3 Sänkhyakārikā 44 4 (a) Yogasūtra 2, 14
(b) Yogabhāşya 2, 12. 5 (a) Nyāyamañjari, p. 472.
(b) Prasastapāda, pp. 637, 643. 6' Brhadāranyaka Upanişad 3, 2, 13. 7 (a) Bhagavatī sūtra (b) Sthānāngasūtra 77, 8 Uttarādhyayana 4, 3. 9 Dhammapada 9, 12. 10 śāntigatakam 82. 11 Dvātrirhšikā 30
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