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complaint, but untiredly seek the methods whereby his aim may be secured, sure that his only limitation is his ignorance, and that perfect knowledge must mean perfect power.
COLD FRIENDSHIPS
Another fact of the greatest importance is that we are brought by karma into touch with people whom we have known in the past, to some of whom we owe debts, some of whom owe debts to us. No man treads his long pilgrimage alone, and the egos to whom he is linked by many ties in a common past come from all parts of the world to surround him in the present. We have known some one in the past who has gone ahead of us in evolution ; perchance we then did him some service, and a karmic tie was formed. In the present, that tie draws us within the orbit of his activity, and we
