tman_and_moksa

SR No.: 020053
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: G N Joshi
Publisher: Gujarat University
Publication Year: 1965
Total Pages: 901
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 12 MB

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Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
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Ātman and Moksa
consistently. Why should I not experience the fruits of other's actions? What exactly is the force which connects the doer of action to the experience of its results? Paul Dahlke does not make a distinction between the two. He identifies the doer and the deed and overcomes the absurd situation. He says - ".. if there is no I present which could commit the deed, no doer whose product the deed is, then am I myself the deed. I am deed corporealised. If, however, I myself am the deed, then I myself am also the consequence of the deed; just as the reaction represents precisely the same energy as the action.... I myself am both punishment incorporate, reward incorporate. It is after this mode and manner that the deed and its consequences 'cling' to the doer."! Thus, the distinction between the doer and the deed is lost, and the individual lives by means of his deeds. The individual's deeds are the concretised forms of his will to act, which is the essence of an individual. All other constituents of a human personality being perishable there is nothing that persists even after death. The individual can be remembered and thought of as existing in and through his deeds. His deeds are bound by an ironlaw to their consequences. No one, howsoever powerful, has the power to escape the consequences of his acts. As Monier-William says-"(Buddha) by his doctrine of Karma bound a man hand and foot to the inevitable consequences of his own evil actions with chains of adamant.” Thus, the moral law of retribution
1 Dahlke Paul ; Buddhist Essays, p. 29.
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