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CONFLUENCE OF OPPOSITES
293 spirit be eternal in one case and a created article-a product ex nihilo, in the fullest sense of the phrasein all others ? I think this marks the limit of absurdity in metaphysics,
Whence the rewards and punishments for the deeds and misdeeds of individuals, then ? Whence, indeed, if not from the very agency that is responsible for the punishment of him who sitting on the tree trunk would strike at its root ?
It I put my band on fire, I can tell you precisely what the result of my folly would be long before it is to be judicially determined by a divine judge in hea. ven ! Nature is all-powerful; she requires no judge, no constabulary and no prisons for her culprits. Her punishments are swist, sure and unrelenting. If we only know where to look for them, we shall find her
judgments' unerring. The man wbo is cruel and selfish, who leads an unrighteous life who tramples upon the feelings and susceptibilities of others does not suspect that the recording angel of Destiny is noting all his misdeeds in the self-registering Ledger of Karma that perpetually readjusts itself automatically. He has no idea that his purer human instincts are being gradually debased into evil tendencies and traits, and knows absolutely nothing of the terrible changes which are taking place in the constitution of the inner kärmâna sarira that will drag him into unhappy surroundings and evil associations when this outer mortal coil shall have been shaken off. The, man of
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