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AN EPITOME OF JAINISM
last of all it adds we say a moral stature.
cubit to our
Such being the nature of virtue, how and karma-. can we expect in face of the operation of
Virtue, vice
causality.
Karma-causality, other than
pain and
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misery, when we commit vice. Surely the entail of natural evil, of pain and misery, upon moral transgression is the indispensible expression of the righteous adjustment of things by the operation of Karmacausality. Sin being there, it would be simply monstrous, in face of such inexonerable moral causality as discussed above, that there should be no suffering, no misery, and no pain, and would fully justify the despair which now raises the sickly cry of complaint against the retributory wretchedness of moral transgression. And still in utter forgetfulness of such moral causation, we, when we are haunted by the fatalism of nature on our own misdoings, cry against the sterness and rigidity of the inexonerable law, with which it marches upon us! We forget, in short, that the absence of physical evil in presence of the moral evil pleads against the operation of the law of Karma
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