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finer matter and assimilating it with his individuality may be compared to a man who should go into a smoky sootty atmosphere with his body oiled or greased ; the grease would form the ground into which the particles of soot would sink ; and if the man did not know the scientific way of removing it from his body, (by soap and water) he will have to wait until it wears off naturally ; and so with the karma, it he does not know how to scientifically remove it, he will have to wait until it naturally wears off. (The way of removing it has been described roughly in the series of lectures on concentration.)
We have in our nature impellent forces which are the ground so to speak on which foreign particles can rest and will be assimilated by the individual. As a magnet among an assortment of mental dust will attract to itself the iron filings, so there is a kind of magnetism in the individual which attracts and assimilates the foreign particles,
The philosophy of karma may be studied from Points of different points of view : such as the view from which the sub. nature of karma, the quality, the action, ject can be
be the kind of experience of pleasure or studied. pain which it will give the individual. We may study it in reference to its intensity, and therefore the intensity with which they will manifest themselves. Or we may study karma in reference to the duration : it may stay for a thousand years or
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