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Law of Karma
This whole is a book before the soul, chapter after chapter is being read and turned over, and every now and then, a scene opens. A fresh one comes but the soul is ever the same--eternal. It is nature that is charging, not the soul of man 17
According to a story in the great epic, the Mahābhārata, Yudhishthira, when asked by Dharma to state the most wonderful thing in the world, replied that it was the persistent belief of mankind in their own deathlessness in spite of their witnessing death everywhere around them almost every moment of their lives.
But the difficulty is : Being a finite being. we cannot think of ourselves other than the body : Our idea of our own permanence includes the idea of ourselves as body also. But the body is obviously impermanent. The question is : where lies this permanence ? It is not the body: neither is it the mind. The body is dying every minute, the mind is changing. The body and mind are the combination of minute particles, which can never reach beyond the changes. But beyond this gross body and finer mind is the Ātman, the soul, the true nature of man. It is perfect and ever-free. It the is Real Man, The free and ever perfect soul is beyond all conditions and is uneffected by birth and death.
Without birth or death, eternal, ever-existing is the soul of man. 18
As such, we must be aware of the fact that the birth and death that we see in our everday life, is subjected to our physical body. It is our body which enjoys or suffers. As the soul is permanent and infinite, there is no question of its decay. And as it does not decay, there is no question of its birth and death.
To have a thorough knowledge of its physical and spiritual aspect, we should ponder over it deeply.
The Law of Karma and Rebirth
To start with rebirth, we must remember the famous saying of Lord Krishna in the Gitā :
