Doctrine Of Karma

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

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PHILOSOPHY OF KARMA
ditions, not only would it be contrary to the established order of things, but must cause great confusion, since there would be no way of differentiating changeable from unchangeable. That which is subject to time, space, and causation is changeable;) while that which is beyond these is unchangeable. Time, for instance, means succession, which is a condition of thought; and space means cocxistence. The activities of mind, being either in succession or simultaneous, produce the ideas of time and space; they are conditions, or, as Kant calls them, 'forms of thought.' One thought following another gives us a conception of intervals which we call time; while, when two ideas rise simultanecusly, that which separates them is what we call space. Thus, that which exists between the idea 'me' and the idea 'sun' we classify as space; yet it is purely a mental concept, having no existence outside the mind; for who knows any concrete thing
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