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Chapter Five KARMA AND REINCARNATION
1. KARMA
YRI R. Krishnaswami Aiyer, M A., B.L., writes about Karma in the Hindu Mind dated October,
1935: a Karmas Classified
Karmas are good, bad or mixed. The results of good Karmas are:
(1) Purification of the mind, that is to say, the removal from the mind of its drossness which is the effect of thoughts of narrow selfishness and gross sensuality.
(2) Happiness in the higher regions, during the period between the death and rebirth in this physical world. If the Karma is of an exceptional nature, the thinker may even be made an office-bearer with an authority in such higher regions.
(3) Coming back, as man again, to earth-life with facilities for further purification of mind. If the Karma, however, is done without attachment to its fruits and the thinker has been going along the path of Jnana (knowledge) or along the higher regions of the path of Bhakti (devotion to the supreme
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