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been impelled by the circumstances and other necessities, or has freely initiated the action himself to serve his own ends and the nature of the moral judgment depends considerably on such decision. Thus time is a potential element in the determination of the participation of fate and free-will in a particular conduct of man.
The devastating war between the Kurus and the Pandavas which killed the manhood of the nation, seems to have been caused by the free will of several people. The war could have been avoided.
iii. Karma—or the abiding consequences of deed done in the past either in this life or in prior ones, which determine the innernature or character of the man in a posterior incarnation.
The movements of a man who is placed in very untoward circumstances hardly able to meet his two ends in comparision with the movements of another who is rocking in lap of fortune, are more determined by necessity than the movements of the other who enjoys a more liberty of thought and action.
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