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Even so, now there is no information of his existence. The thrones of mighty monarches are gone. The proud and the haughty have been humiliated in a moment and reduced to ashes. What is the principal cause of all this? Karma.
Even amongst the twins born of the same mother we find one a durice and another intelligent, one rich and another poor, one black and another white.. What is the cause of all this? They could not have done any deeds while they were in thieir mother's womb. Why then should such oddities exist ? We must then infer that these strange disparities amongst these twins must be the result of their deeds in their past births though they are born together.
As gold which exists in the mines from times eternal, is mixed up with mud, the soul also is besmeared with Karmas from the infinite past. Just as gold is purified, after its extraction from the mines, by means of acids and other processes, the soul also is purificd and freed from the Karmas by the process of penance, self control, mercy, charity etc. and attains salyation.
The numerical strength of Jivatmas (living souls) is infinitely infinite. Each of these has a distinct entity. If these were parts and parcels
