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for helpers in a larger work. If ignorant of karma, he will fret against his bonds, or even break them, and thus ensure their return, in the future. The knower of karma will see in these duties the reactions from his own past activities, and will patiently accept and discharge them; he knows that when they are fully paid, they will drop away from him and leave him free, and that meanwhile they have some lessons to teach him which it is incumbent upon him to learn : he will seek to see those lessons and to learn them, sure that the powers they evoke will make him a more efficient helper when he is free to answer to the call to which his whole nature is thrilling in response.,
Again, the knower of karma will seek to establish in his nation and his family, conditions which will attract to each, egos of an advanced and noble type. He will see to it that his household arrangements, it's scrupulous