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can be transferred from one person to another person, but in kali age full of sins, he who does a sinful deed also is embraced by sin. In krtayuga, one becomes sinner by sitting, sleeping, going associating and eating with the sinner. It is just as a drop of oil wher poured into water makes it not so pure as when it was devoid of oil. 1
Even great ones experience the fruit of what has been done by them once. Whatever is to happen takes place even in their case. Nílakantha had to have snake (Šeşanāga) for his bed and would wonder about naked. But emphasis on the influence of Daiva on the one hand, the Hitopadeśakāra there and then impressed upon his reader the significance of Puruşārtha.3 Daiva and Puruşakāra go together in guiding a life, just as a chariot cannot work unless it has both the wheels. Man is provided with the freedom of will. Whatever he desires, accordingly he acts and once a desire is entertained, this desire becomes his master and we reap what we have sown in the form of desire. A heap of earth when once comes in the hand of Kumbhakára, he. makes of its whatever he desires. Likewise a desire when once given place in our mind makes of us whatever, it means.5
Man is not to blame anyone for his sufferings. His happiness, or sorrow is due to his own past deeds. Disease, sorrow, grief, · bondages, evil habits are the fruits of the tree of sins committed · by the sufferer in his previous birth.
THEORY OF KARMA AND CĀŅAKYA :: Cāņakya has not neglected the place of karma in his world· famous book “Arthaśāstra ? He has mainly dealt with the prac
tical aspect of karman. Success or failure of karma depends on how, when and where you start a karma. We should start a work 1. Pascatantra-Kakolukeyam, 206-207 2. Hitopadeśa, Mitralābha- 30. 3. Hitopadeśa, Mitralabha-33. 4. Hitopadeśa, Mitralabha, 35 5. Hitopadcśa-Mitralabha-37. 6. Canakya pranecta Arthaśāstra, 14th Adhikaraña Verses 66-68, 100-110
