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CHAPTER IX
EMANCIPATION FROM THE BONDAGE OF KARMA
Friends, we have devoted a good deal of consideration to the subject of the doctrine of Karma. Therein we indicated what sovereignty Karma held on all the embodied souls and how it ruled the destinies of the entire universe.
It is a great misfortune. It is an extremely grievous condition that the soul which has the potentiality of infinite happiness should remain subject to the sway of Karma and get entangled in the eddies of pains of birth and death, disease and sorrow. And what does it matter if its favour confers upon us the Presidentship of a nation or makes us a son of a multi-millionaire like Andrews Carnegie? After all is it not a condition of confinement under the watchful eye of Karma? To the discerning, millions of happiness of such confinement appear as good as ashes.
The question then poses, “How could we get emancipation from the thraldom of Karma ? Is there a power on the world which could vanquish Karma ? Does there exist a power which can cleave the chest of Karma by its tiger-claws? Or which can behead it and send its corpse rolling down on the earth?"
To this there is but one answer that there exists only one entity and that is religion that can wage a successful fight with Karma. The power of religion is the only power which can give a mortal blow to Karma.
What then is this religion ?
Friends, holy conduct, holy thought and holy word is the content of religion. Those who keep their conduct, thoughts, ever holy are the saints. These saints still move from place
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