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The Great Arguments
He told a tradition built on extreme physical discipline that the soul was never bound in the first place - and that abandoning the discipline on that basis would prove you had understood nothing.
Nothing has ever happened to you.
That is the position, stated as baldly as Kundakunda states it, and it is the most radical thing anybody has said inside Jainism. The soul, he holds, is and always has been pure, luminous, unbound and complete. It has never actually been touched by karma. It has never actually been in bondage. Nothing that appears to have occurred to it has occurred to it.
The rest of this story, read aloud, and a new one every day.