Page 157 - Courage Redifined

A. : The one who says so has not understood the element
called ‘bhavitavyata’ (destiny) rightly and completely in
the first place. They call it bhavitavyata but are actually
talking about a kevalgyani’s sight, but it also is not a
creator, it’s just a spectator.

The sight of a kevalgyani is not the creator of the past, present
or future states, but is just a spectator. For e.g. if a mirror
reflects the rain, can you say that the rain is pouring just as
the mirror shows ? This does not mean that the mirror is the
creator of rain. The mirror merely shows the rain which has
emerged out of its own reasons. Similarly, even though a
kevalgyani’s knowledge covers all the present, past and future
times, it does not mean that a kevalgyani’s sight gives birth
to the course of events happening around at all times. Those
specific states or events emerge due to their own causes and
not due to the kevalgyani’s sight. A kevalgyani merely reflects
these events or states through his knowledge.

It is an offence to consider the kevalgyani’s sight to be the
creator.

If some soul is bound to go to the seventh hell, then can you
say that he has to bear the severe pains in hell just because
the kevalgyani’s sight was such ? Is it appropriate to say this ?
Is the kevalgyani’s sight a giver of such unbearable tortures ?
Won’t they be called wicked to forecast about things that
cause so much pain and misery to others ?
Actually, it is the soul’s own bad acts and sins which lead
to the soul’s pitiful state. A kevalgyani’s knowledge merely
reflects these acts. To conclude, knowledge can only see and
not generate.

Using this calculation as an excuse, many people do not make
efforts in the directions of religion thinking that, “Kevalgyanis
have not seen religious efforts in us.” This excuse is baseless
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