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being done to him, should understand that the present life is a jail. In the current jail, you may not have committed any wrong but do not limit your vision to this jail, extend it to your past lives, crimes committed during those lives and the punishment due to you. You will then understand that there is no injustice. If it seems like justice, the mind will be ready to accept the punishment and will bear it with composure.
Even the scholars from the Western World have started accepting this kind of justice. Let us examine a few examples: Following are a few excerpts from the book, The power within' authored by Dr. Alexander Cane who had conducted a study of past lives of more than a thousand people, based on hypnotic trance. In the book, he posed this question, "Can one attain a chosen birth?” While experimenting with regression, the answer to this question was got in the negative. “The next birth is never the one chosen by you, it depends on the way you lead the present life.” By pointing out how a person becomes unhappy in this life for any misdeeds committed in the past lives by the law of action-reaction, the study of past lives indicates that perfect justice pervades nature. “Why am I facing troubles one after another?” When one examines the past lives of the person making this complaint, one comprehends that he must have committed some wicked karmas. Another person's life seems to be smooth sailing inspite of him behaving as he pleased. This could be a reward for the good deeds committed by him in his past life.
There is a demand in the Western World to accept the
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