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THE POWER OF KARMA By His order inanimate forms were produced ; His order cannot be described ; by His order animate things exist; by His order greatness is obtained; by His order men are high or low ; by His order they obtain pre-ordained pain or pleasure.
Who can sing His power? Who has power to sing it?
Who can sing His gifts, or know His signs ?
Who can sing His attributes, His greatness, and His deeds ?
By obeying Him man's path is not obstructed.
By obeying Him man departs with honour and distinction.
By obeying Him man proceeds in ecstasy on his way.
By obeying Him man forms an alliance with virtue. So pure is God's name.
Whoever obeys God knows the pleasure of it in his own heart."
Praisers praise God, but have not acquired a knowledge of Him. As rivers and streams fall into the sea, but do not know its extent, as the sea is the king of streams, so is God the monarch of men.
Hail, Hail to Him, the primal, the pure, without beginning, the indestructible, the same in every age. (See The Asiatic Quarterly Review, April, 1898).
This worship of a supreme Deity is the root of every modern religion, and in our own age Emerson has written :
