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becomes a hell. A fool may purchase all the books in the world, and he can keep them very carefully. But he can read only those books, which he deserves. And this deserving is produced by Karmas.
Our Karmas determine what we deserve and what we can deserve. We are responsible for what we are. Moreover, what we wish to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If our present life is the result of our past deeds, it certainly follows that our future can be produced by our present actions. For illustration :X produces Y and Y produces Z and so on. So, we can assert that Z is produced by X.
Swami Vivekananda explains this very point in a very beautiful way : Every wave that rises in the mind, when it subsides, does not die out entirely. It leaves a mark and a future possibility of wave coming out again. Every thought leaves such an impression on the mind i.e., wha: we are just here at this moment is the result of sum total of all the impressions of our past lives. This really is meant by character. Man's character is the sum total of these very impressions. For him, character is the real man. He further says, if good impressions are dominative, a man's character is good, if bad dominates, he may become a man of bad character.
Elaborating the above spiritual principle, Swami Vivekananda points out that everything that happens must have a why; i.e., it must have been preceded by something else which acted as the cause. This very precedence and succession are what we call the law of causation. For instance, a stone falls and immediately we think why? This question arises possibly on the supposition that nothing happens in the universe without a cause. It means that everything in the universe is in turn a cause and an effect. In other words, nothing in the universe is independent. Interdependence in the form of cause and effect is the law of whole universe.
Once Swami Vivekananda, at Bay city on 21st March 1894, while delivering a lecture, pointed out that a group of Philosophers did not believe in the creation. To quote him, “A crea. tion implied making something out of nothing. That was impossible. God and Creation were two lines without end, without beginning, without parallel. They think all punishment
