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Law of Karma
earth. "The whole movement directed towards the realization of potentialities is a continuous incarnation of God."12
The view that God as love will see to it that the plan succeeds, is not to be confused with the doctrine of absolute predestination, which may throw human freedom and paralyse moral effort. After all, it is the fight that gives life its value and not the ultimate result. Even the consummation of the result is contingent on the passion with which human individuals work for the cause. It is with the hope that even the most wilful will respond to the long suffering love of God. When the hold of God on the world becomes precarious, his love, which is constant, manifests itself in a striking way. According to the Christian religion, when the situations become desperate it is said that God once sent a deluge which destroyed almost all mankind. And on another occasion sent his only-begotten Son. It does not mean that the love of God is an accidental quality. Love belongs to the very core of God's being. Complete self-giving is the nature of divine activity.
God is not only truth and love, but also justice. He is the perfection which rejects all evil. God acts according to fixed laws. He does not break his own laws. God does not forgive the criminal, even when he repents, for the moral order is conceived in love and not in hatred. In his view, wrong doings must have its natural consequences. "You shall assuredly never be passed over by God's judgement, not though you make yourself never so small and hide in the bowels of the earth, or exalt yourself to heaven. You must pay the penalty due, either while you are still with us, or after your departure hence, in the house of Hades, or it may be, by removal to some still more disolate region."'13
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"The one God creates as Brahma, redeems as Visnu, and judges as Siva. These three represent the three stages of the plan, the process and the perfection. The source from which all things come, the spring by which they are sustained, and the good into which they enter are one."1 God loves us, creates us and rules us. Creation, redemption and judgements are different names for the fact of God.
So far as the world is concerned, God is organic with it. It is impossible to detach God from the world. Ramanujā regards
