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Law of Karma
Man is finite as well as infinite being. Each human persona. lity is a distinct and unique structure. It is a unity of diverse parts having an enduring structure. Some personalities are highly integrated, sublime, purified and refined, and some others show lack of unity and harmony. These are lowly, rough and primitive. The growth of a personality is a matter of degree.
According to Dr. Radhakrishnan, human personality is a segment of the growing unity. It develops in a telcological manner. It is the intellectual ideals which organise human experience, desires, and emotions. Human personality is oriented towards that ideal. Its development has, therefore, teleological unity. There are certain distinguishable characters in human personality, which characterise an individual's uniqueness. The human personalities are uniquely different because its ideals are different. Its structure carries the uniqueness which leaves its marks on its body, life, mind and consciousness. It is the ideals which organise human personalities. So long as a man is identified with an ideal, he has the same personality. When a person undergoes changes, it means that his ideal has undergone change.
The realisation and ascents of a personality are carried from birth to birth. When a self leaves the body, it is accompanied by knowledge, work and experience. A man is not born totally new. The self enters new life with past inheritance and growth. It weaves out the present and prepares for the future. There can be no reversions in rebirth. Human beings cannot regress to animal life, because there is the onward push behind each of us. The cosmic process is not regarded as meaningless, as it leads us to ascent, development and expansion of human life. The emergence of mystic, spiritual and divinised beings is the result of ceaseless purification, transformation and divinisation of an individual from birth to birth.
An individual, according to Dr. Radhakrishnan, ceaselessly exceeds himself for ends, perfection and values. One's identification with values results in the development of his personality. The higher the valucs, the higher is its ascent possible. Identification with goals, purposes and values
