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to teach man utter depreciation of worldly life. The soul that was destined to attain Nirvan within the span of its running life was the soul that went through all the important epochs of man's life as we understand it. Nay, it is the principle of Jainism that the life we live, is the one on which the existence of its ascetics depends and through which its purified asceticism grows. While describing the value of human life, an ancient Jain teacher says: It is in human life that Tapas, the great Vows, concentration or even Salvation is possible. † Nothing could give life a nobler ideal and a more glowing hue.
THE FREEWILL THEORY
Here we might resume our question as to whether the theory of determination by the
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मणु अगईए वितओ अणुअगईए महव्वयं सयलं । #yanέt Aid zy3⁄4¡eg la forzaji ||
The Anuprekshas of Swami Kârtika.
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