Book Title: Treatise on Jainism Author(s): Jayantibhai S Sanghvi Publisher: S J SanghviPage 32
________________ CHAPTER II THE THEORY OF KARMA (LAW OF CAUSATION) Every one in this world desires happiness; and dislikes misery; but we find that one is a millionaire while another is a pauper; one is healthy while another is diseased; one is white while another is black; one is handsome while another is ugly; one is stout while another is lean; one is intelligent while another is an idiot; one is a master while another is a slave and similarly we find the high and the low, the mutilated and the lame, the blind and the deaf and many such oddities. What is the reason for all such conditions ? People would say that it is due to individual luck. But what is that luck ? Who made it ? Who governs it ? How to be free from all the above oddities and be truely happy ? The Jain Religion shows us the correct path to follow and we shall see in the following pages how to do it. As said above there are many oddities in this world and it will have to be admitted that behind all this some powerful force is at work whereby the world appears to be Jain Education International For Private & Personal Use Only www.jainelibrary.orgPage Navigation
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