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RECONCILIATION.
1025 pels obedience to the decrees of fate is none other than the force of karma, and that the logicies and, the Perspicuous Book, whose decrees can never be challenged, is the
Cosmic Memory,' the self-registering Ledger of karma, wherein are recorded all things that have happened in the past and also those that are to happen in the future, or, in the language of the Qur'an, all actions of men, including the works which they have sent on before them, and the traces which they shall have left behind them.' The reader has only to turn to the doctrine of karma as propounded in the Jaina Siddhanta to understand the nature of the Perspicuous Book and of the process which automatically records and registers the actions of men and their future, hence predetermined, fruits. The whole doctrine, thus, is a highly abridged and condensed version of the theory of karma. Hindu philosophers divide karmas into two main classes, prárabdha and adrishta, the former of which signifies the karmic force, or forces, which have begun to be active, and the latter the latent, and, therefore, the potential residue. They are called adrishta (from a, not, and drishta, visible), because they signify karmas whose effect is not yet visible, hence, the potentiality of future action. The other class of karmas, that is prârabdha, is the destiny which is beginning to shape the circumstances and environment. This is the true doctrine of takdir; to deny it would be to sever the connection between the logisme res and the individual soul, and, consequently, fatal to the doctrine itself.
The passage"O my people ! how is it that I bid you to salvation, but that ye bid me to the fire ?"
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