RELIGST 3L03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Tirthankara
6 Apr 2017
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Karma: feeling karma, name karma, life karma. At very top of the universe is located the place of liberate souls. Where one goes after all karma, good and bad, has been exhausted. Where liberated souls reside as pure consciousness, pure energy, and pure bliss. Soul is lifted from burden of karma and floats to top of universe. Give the karmic implications of the engaged life, renunciation is necessary if one wants to escape the cycle of samsara. It is impossible to not gain karma in the living world, because pretty well everything will add karma. Practicing extreme asceticism helps to counter act the build up of karma. Walking vs. driving car carefully walking is safest way to minimize amount of harm caused and karma accrued. It is important to avoid the accumulation of new karma. Kills chicken made out of flour and therefore suffer terrible rebirths. Jains are not in favour of brahminical sacrifice.
