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KARMA PHILOSOPHY
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through a lot of ordeals, we might again come into combination with karmas. The fundamental basis of the philosophy is that, so far as the past is concerned, there was not any time when the soui was without any karma.
The combination of the soul and the karma is pot a mechanical mixture, separable by simply taking apart as a coat from the body. The combination of the soul with karma is a subtle combination and can be seen ilus: in a mechanical mixture the substances are only in juxtaposition, such as sugar an.1 water, and you can seperate one from the other readily. Then there is chemical conbination, when two or more substauces unite to that the compon! capuot be seen in its elements; water, for instance, is a conspound of hydrogen and oxygen, and these in combination inake water, which is a quite different substance from either, and neither hydrogen nor oxyger can be seen in it. So it is with the con:bination of the soul with karna, the combination is even nuore subtle than the chemical combination, and the result is a different substance from either of the ingredients.
The soul is a supersensuous substance ; in thought, it can be divided into parts, but not actually ; it cannot be actually taken apart,
To reduce the combination of soul and karma, you have to use certain mental and moral disciplines.
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