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Law of Karma
in nortality. At a particular time, it is consciously immortal and becomes aware of its essence. Only then all questioning in favour of and against the immortality of the soul falls down. In the same way, at moment the soul becomes a ware of itself in its eternal and mutable moment and only then it becomes aware of the fact as to how our presents are constituted on the basis of the past ages before. A real freedom comes when we get away from the mind into the life of the spirit, from personality to the spirit, from personality to the person, from Nature to the lord of Nature.
Even if the soul is something created, it must be by a larger law of growth and not by some divine code of primitive and barbaric justice. This idea of Karma is a construction of the smaller part of the human vital mind.
Immortality of soul is closely linked with the Law of Karma. The question arises whether it exhausts the consequences of all our actions in present life. If the answer is in the affirmative, it does not seem logical. In our practical life we often find a righteous man suffering and a wicked cojoying. If life is confined to the present only, no saint should suffer, but this is not so. Hence, we have to suppose that there is a continuity between one life and the other. Death is not the end of everything done in this life. We have to consume the fruits of our action in our future life also. As we see continuity in different lives, so there is something immortal behind it as continuity presupposes something immortal. It follows that our present life is the result of our past life and the future life will be the outcome of our present life. And it is possible only when something remains in us even after the death of our body, because the same soul has to consume the result of its own actions. That is why the same soul remains in different lives. Hence, we can conclude that immortality of soul is the presupposition of the Law of Karma.
Rebirth and the Law of Karma
Close on the heels of the concept of Immortality follows the concept of rebirth. If the soul is immortal, is it reborn? To
