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Contribution of Acārya Mahāprajña to the.....
to be human psychology that one wants to take honour of everything good but disowns anything wrong or evil. It means that for good, you are responsible, but for bad, you throw the responsibility on others. According to Jainism, your soul is responsible for both good and evil. One cannot impose the responsibility on anyone else not even on God. This is the gist of Jaina doctrine of ātmakartṛtvavāda.
This doctrine helps us to develop a new avenue of our own consciousness, and that is to refrain from accusing others and confess one's own responsibility for doing anything wrong or considering one's own Self responsible for suffering or pain instead of accusing others. This is novel contribution of the Mahāprajña to mould the attitude of the person who imposes the cause of suffering on other.
Karmavāda and Puruṣārthavāda
Jaina Ethical philosophy is based upon the theory of karma. Jaina philosophy doesn't accept that notion of God who rewards or punishes one according to fruition of auspicious karmas and inauspicious karmas respectively. The world is governed by natural laws, so there is no need to accept any God. In favour of God many logics are given as out of compassion God created this world. Some say, God was alone, he wanted to be many (tadaikṣat bahusyām), so the world came into being. Mahāprajña has given a reasonable logic in favour of the Jaina theory of karma. He says that the primary basis of acceptance of theory of karma is freedom of will. Secondly, the moral responsibility of each and every action is on the individual itself. Thirdly, every individual has the right to progress and change his destiny.12
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He says, if one claims that everything happens according to the theory of karma in Jaina philosophy, then there will be no difference between the Isvaravāda i.e. theism and karmavāda i.e. theory of karma. But Acārya Mahāprajña emphasizes that the theory of karma is the theory of puruṣārtha i.e. effort. One can't differentiate the two as they are twins found always together. 13 One can change one's karma through efforts. In canonical text we get two types of karmasi.e. dalika karma and nikācita karma. Dalika karmas
