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CAUSALITY IN MORAL WORLD.
Mohavir on Fate and Liberty.
iv. Niyati—the concatenation of natural causes and conditions from which a certain effect must irresistibly follow just as the Lib. number four follows from the concatenation of two and two.
In the great battle which was waged against Ravan, the King of Lanka, for kidnapping the beautiful Sitā from the forest's solitudes, Ram Chandra's movements seem to have been determined to a greater extent by Niyati, because from the study of the Råmåyan we find that the whole thing was due to the intrigues and instigations of Surpanakhā, the sister of Råvan.
Thus in fine, we see no mortal man who lives, moves or has his being within the span of time, space, causation is absolutely free in his actions. His movements take directions in strict conformity with the laws of the parallelogram of forces which follow from the conflict between the constitutional freedom of his will and the determination of the same by necessity or Fate of his own make in the past. And this is the reason why, referring to the doctrine of the Fatalists in the Book I,
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