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Fate and
iv. Niyatı--the concatenation of natural causes and conditions from which a certain
Mohavir on effect must irresistibly follow just as the Libera number four follows from the concatenation of two and two.
In the great battle which was waged against Ravan, the King of Lanka, for kidnapping the beautiful Sitū from the forest's solitudes, Ram Chandra's movements seem to have been determined to a greater extent by Niyati, because from the study of the Ramayan we find that the whole thing was due to the intrigues and instigations of Surpanakhā, the sister of Råvan.
Thus in fine, we see no mortal man who lives, moves or has his being within the span of time, space, causation is abso. lutely free in his actions. His movements take directions in strict conformity with the laws of the parallelogram of forces which follow from the conflict between the constitutional freedom of his will and the determination of the same by necessity or Fate of his own make in the past. And this is the reason why, referring to the doctrine of the Fatalists in the Book I.
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