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One gets a son and within no time he is taken up by death. A trader gets profit in one transaction while in the other he suffers a loss. The circumstances go on oscillating like a flag by the wind. So also persons who were once agreeable become disagreeable the other moment. When such is the case, a person should not give up his atti-tude of indifference or neutrality. He should believe in only one broad principle according to which what comes to pass is always good. Good or bad is the creation of mind. If belief is fair, everything else is fair. (6)
FRUIT FOLLOWS THE KARMAS
The toward or the untoward circumstances which a man gets or passes through are not offered to us or thrust on us from without. Neither God nor Allah has a hand in it. They come or go according to the law of Karmas. The happy cricumstances or the unhappy ones are the results of good Karmas or bad ones. Therefore, one should not lament or bemoan his bad lot because it is futile. Why did one not think thousand times before incurring the Karmas If one does not like unhappy circumstances, he ought to have thought of it before. But when he has already amassed bad Karmas, he should be ready to take the consequences as they come in a frame of equable need. It is a sheer folly to be delighted or dejected at the circumstances which are the effects of his own acts. (7)
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