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very rich and maintains thousands of persons at his own expense, while another is so poor that he can not get sufficient food even by begging. It is seen that time, place, circum. stances, and ability being the same and alike ope merchant suffers inconsiderable loss in a bussiness while another earns enormous profits. One member of a family is seen suffering from various kinds of diseases while another is hale and hearty at one and the same time. The wise and the learned exist side by side with the foolish and the illiterate. The root cause of all these inequalities is the Karman. There is no effect without some cause. Know it for certain, that good results from good Karmas and evil from evil.
Now only one question remains to be answered and it is this. “How can the Karmas, which have got a form i. e. material in nature be connected with the soul which is formless ? Now please listen to what I say. You know that sky is formless, but that portion of it which is contained in a pot is called Ghata-kasha ( the space limited by the pot ), and that which is contained in a Matha or room is called Mathakasha ( space limited by the four walls of that room ) and so on. But this does not mean that the sky or the space has taken form or that it is destructible. Space was there ever before the pot or the room came into existence; it is there in spite of their existence; and it will remain there for ever after they have been destroyed or removed from that place. Movement and-activity is the quality of the pot or of the room, and not of the space. It is omnipresent. There fore it exists everywhere as well as in them. Similarly, the foul which is formless is connected with the Karmas which have got a form It is said that the soul is subject to sorrows
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