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A STUDY IN KARMA
separately, successively. So in karma, we see the relations only one by one, and one after another, not even realising the successive relations, so limited is our view.
Such similes may often help us to grasp the invisible things, and may act as crutches to our halting imagination. And out of all this we lay our foundation-stone for 'our study of karma.
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Karma is universal inter-relation, and is seen in any universe as the Law of Causation, in consequence of the successive appearance of phenomena in the becoming, or coming forth, of the universe.
CAUSATION
The idea of causation has been challenged in modern times, Huxley. for instance, contending, in the Contemporary Review, that we only knew