Doctrine Of Karma

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

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SECRET OF KARMI
the plane of phenomena. Those who attain the goal retire from the stage and appear no more. They live in bliss and happiness in the higher rcalm of Divinity. The cause of all these different parts which the individual souls are playing, lies within the actors and actresses themselves and not outside of them. In their own inner nature is it to be found; and as the power of growth, which is latent in the seed buried beneath the surface of the earth, gradually bursts forth and manifests itself in the form of plants, trees, and shrubs, each showing the peculiarities contained in the original seed, so these powers that are slumbering in each human soul, wake up in time, stir it to action, and force it to assume some particular part in the play. It is these latent powers when roused to activity that we know as our desires and motives. So long as these desires and motives arc perfectly dormant, there is no sign of activity; and this latent or dormant state is called in