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CAUSALITY IN THE MORAL WORLD. What does 'Responsibility Imply-Reward or Punishment Unavoidable-Law of Karma'-Causality Inviolable – Prayer or Worship has no Efficacy-N. Need of Extra-Mundane Moral Providence-Law of Karma' is more Rational Explanation-An Act of Vice is not equal to Incurring a Debt -- The Theory of *Karma'-Pudgal--the Distinction between Right and Wrong is not an Absolute Distinction.
In discussing the question of Free-will and Fatalism, we have seen that man is constitutionally free and essentially an autonomous being with all the potentialities of vision, knowledge, strength and delight infinite. And as such he is wholly and entirely responsible for all his thoughts and actions. We have seen also that responsibility for a thought or an act means the liability of the man who thinks or acts to undergo the consequences of his thought or act.
But to undergo the consequences of a thought or an act is nothing more or less than the enjoyment of a reward for entertaining a good thought or performing a
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