Doctrine Of Karma

Author(s): Abhedananda Swami
Publisher: Ramkrishna Vedanta Math

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DOCTRINE OF KARMA
teaches that God, the Creator of all, set the destiny of man before his birth. Her ordains before the birth of each man a woman what he or she will be in futur. The whim of the Creator makes one sinfr or virtuous, before the time of one's birt), But this hypothesis destroys our mori responsibility and personal freedom. If w are all predestined by God to be sinful o virtuous, to be happy or unhappy, we car neither undo our destiny nor act against the Divine decree. It makes us absolute, automata bound hand and foot by the chain of slavery. Furthermore, it makes God partial and' unjust. Why sňouid He make one innocent creature destined to suffer and another to enjoy? Why is it that one obtains His grace before one's birth and anot" does not? If a sinner be destined to sin evi before his birth, why should he be respo sible for his works, and why should he suf for the whim of the omniscient and almig! Creator? If God be merciful to all of
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