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AHINSA
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According to the omniscient, the living being takes life when karma giving life-span to it comes up You cannot give this karma to others; then how do you save their life?
According to the omniscient, the living being takes life when karma giving life-span to it comes up. Others cannot give this karma to you. Then how do they save your life ?
Concluding, the aforesaid text states,
jo marai jo ya duhido jāyadı kammodayeņa sosavvo tamhā du marido de duhāvido cedł na hu micchā 257 jo na maradi na ya duhido so vi ya kammodayeņa ceva khalu tamhā na mārido no duhāvido cedi na hu micchā 258
Death and misery are caused when relevant karma comes up. Then is it not incorrect when you state, 'I have killed; I have caused pain ? And when one dies not, nor suffers pain, that is also due to the rise of relevant karma. Then is it not incorrect when you claim, 'I have not killed, I have not caused pain ? Verily such claims are incorrect
The whole of the above has been summarised by Acarya Amrita Candra in the following couplets
sarvam sadaiva niyatam bhavati svakiya karmodayānmaranajāvitaduhkha saukhyam aiņānāmetadiha yattu parah parasya kuryātpumānmaraṇajāvitaduhkhasaukhyam ainānametaddhigamya parātparasya paśyantı ye maranajūvitaduhkhasaukhyam karmānyahamkrtivasena cikīrşavaste mithyadyśo niyatamātmāhano bhavanti
In this world life and death, happiness and misery come to the living beings always and as a rule by the coming up of karma acquired by themselves It is utter ignorance to state that some other being is responsible for others' life and death, and happiness and misery
1 Samayasāra Kalaśa, p. 168-9
