Some Jaina Canonical Sutras c8.24

c8.24

A person who owns a small property in living or lifeless things or consents to others holding it, will not be delivered from misery ⁴ If he kills living beings or causes other men to kill them or consents to their killing them, his iniquity will go on increasing A sinner who makes the interest of his relations and companions his own will suffer much. His wealth and his nearest relations cannot protect him from future misery. According to atheists the five gross elements, earth, water, fire, wind, and air, are the original causes of things, from them arises *ātman*, on the dissolution of these five elements, living beings cease to exist. Every body has an individual soul. These souls exist as long as the body exists but after death they are no more There are no souls which are born again. There is neither virtue nor vice, there is no world beyond, on the dissolution of the body the individual ceases to be.⁵ Some hold that when a man acts or causes another to act, it is not his soul which acts or causes to act. The fatalists hold that pleasure and pain, final beatitude, and temporal pleasure and pain are not caused by the souls themselves nor by others, but the individual souls experience them It is the lot assigned to them by destiny. According to Mahāvīra, those who hold this view do not understand that things depend partly on fate and partly on human exertion. The doctrine of the *akriyā-vādins* ⁶ augments the misery of worldly existence of those