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and we face the difficulties of life with equanimity of mind. We strive to become good.1
Karma is infact a striking answer to the fathomless injustice to the nature of things, and it appeals to the overpowering strength of the necessity of justice. The conception of an all controlling law of natural distribution which links together successive earth lives of each individual soul both satisfied by sense of justice and through light on the problem of seemingly unmeritted suffering. 2
Having discussed the arguments and counter-arguments of the logical justification of the doctrine of karma, we may say that from the real point of view (niscaya naya) logical justification of the doctrine of karma is not possible nor necessary. It is the expression of the highest knowledge and experience of the seers.3
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1 Darśana aur Cintana, khaṇḍa II, p. 216.
2 Warren (H.C): Buddhism in Transitions (1922) p. 48.
3 Kalghatgi (T.G.), Jaina View of Life (Jivaraja Granthamākā no.
20) 1969, pp. 110-11.
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