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The Doctrine of Karma and
The Unity of Hamanity
Dr H. Bhattacharya, M. A., B. L., Ph D.
Notwithstanding the obvious differences between man and man, there may be traced some unmistakable fundamental points in which all people are found to agree Take the case of any individual it may be safely asserted that he is never fully satisfied nor perfectly content with his present position He feels himself limited in every way, the ranges of his visions. both immediate and mediate--are small, smaller than what he would otherwise like them to be So are his powers. And likewise in every way, so determined are the nature and the stock of his life's happiness, that often have philosophers and common people alike agreed in condemning life as a series of miserable points of existence
Broadly speaking, all persons are thus possessed of a common sense of dissatisfaction This is true of nations too. The government of no country is sure that its grasp of the world situation is all perfect, its judgments fully correct, its power unchallengeable and the happiness of its people at its zenith All nation and individuals are thus united, in a very real sense viz, 10 respect of their varying manners and modes of privations
These limitations are apparently caused by forces affecting the nature of man. No one in his normal state likes to find himself in a state of misery, so that those limiting forcos are manifestly extraneous to man's nature and yet united by it
