Mahavira Quotes

Do I believe in reincarnation? Well, let's say that I believe in karma. I think you make your own karma.

I do sometimes strongly hope that in a past life, my most recent life before this, I was absolutely horrible, evil, hideous. Because otherwise - well, hell, to even things up next time around, I'm going to have to pay for this one, am I not?

It was not uncommon for the children to be told they were being treated this way because it was their bad karma and they must have hurt a child in a past life.

As long as karma exists, the world changes. There will always be karma to be taken care of.

Karma brings us ever back to rebirth, binds us to the wheel of births and deaths. Good Karma drags us back as relentlessly as bad, and the chain which is wrought out of our virtues holds as firmly and as closely as that forged from our vices.

Hysteria, epilepsy, tuberculosis, and cancer were all found to result from the erratic propensities of a past life.

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.

Regarding lack of vision or disabilities of the organ of sight, it has long been known among researchers that it is the effect of extreme cruelty in a past life.

And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

Things don't just happen in this world of arising and passing away. We don't live in some kind of crazy, accidental universe. Things happen according to certain laws, laws of nature. Laws such as the law of karma, which teaches us that as a certain seed gets planted, so will that fruit be.

You and I have been physically given two hands and two legs and half-decent brains. Some people have not been born like that for a reason. The karma is working from another lifetime. I have nothing to hide about that. It is not only people with disabilities. What you sow, you have to reap.

All misery and pain come from attachment.

Births and deaths are inevitable for man only during the state of ignorance in which he thinks he is the body and cannot exist without it. Only the man who will not seek the awakening of wisdom must suffer the nightmares and delusive dreams of births and deaths and the fanciful miseries and limitations attending them. (gt)

Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his act are right, he'll get good consequences; if they're not, he'll suffer for it.

Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior.

I think about death a lot, I really do, because I can't believe I won't exist. It's the ego isn't it? I feel that I should retreat into a better form of Zen Buddhism than this kind of ego-dominated thing. But I don't know, I mean, I want to come back as a tree but I suspect that it's just not going to happen, is it?

I think if you believe in past lives, I must have been an extremely deprived being. I must have been mistreated, beaten, and forced into indentured servitude because this life has just been phenomenal.

I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated.

All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.

They will only kill me, but I will return and it will be in the millions

In this world, there really is a law of cause and effect: You reap what you sow. Then energy you put out really does come back to you.

Life is an endless cycle for those who believe in reincarnation.

You cannot go through life without cause and effect.