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FAITH KNOWLEDGE AND CONDUCT
it is the most unkind act to perform. For, look at the souls that are fettered and that have been up to this time unable to get rid of the bondage of karma and reincarnation imposed upon them? Can we call the being who placed us under subjection to perpetual misery and bondage and death, merciful, or regard him as a friend? Can he who afflicts one in such fiendish ways be worthy of praise? There is no room for gratitude to a supposed or real creator of the soul's misery. It is robbed and deprived of its divinity, and we are to worship him who is alleged to have done the ' kindly' act! There must, surely, be some limit to intellectual perversity! Fear, too, is unjustified. If you will only try to study yourself you will perceive that you are the author of your own undoing, and may make or mar yourself. Surely, no one, much less a god, can be so idle in nature as to store up your little short-comings to be used against you on a long deferred judgment day, or earlier, when you die! 'Man know thyself '—is the proper injunction to man. Some one has well said: the proper study of mankind is man!
Right Faith is the foundation of Right Conduct. It is free from the intellectual repugnancy of regarding another as the creater of one's being and conditions. The soul inspired with Right Faith shakes off the fear of supernatural agencies, and boldly assumes the responsibility for its unhappy states itself, firmly request
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