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PR CTICE OF KARMA YOGA
States founded on the ideas of justice? Will any judge sitting on the throne of justice be justified in accepting the death--the voluntary suicide of Mr. Bummas the proper retribution for the murder committed by Mr. A? And if he does that, will not the same judge he arraigned before a superior court having knowingly abetted the suicide of B? And still we are asked to believe that the guilt of one man can be washed by the suffering of another.
But the doctrine of reincarnation assists most when we look at the inequality and injustice and evil in the world and seek the solution Why is one man born rich and another poor? Why is one man born in Central Africa among the cannibals and the other in a peaceful part of India? Why is Queen Victoria born to rule over the territories on which the sun never sets and why is a labourer in Burma to work as a slave in an Englishman's tea-garden. What is the cause of this apparent injustice? Even those who have belief in the personal creator of the universe must believe in this doctrine of reincarnation in order to exonerate God from the charge of maliciousness.
Even in the New Testament there is sufficient evidence for reincarnation In St. John IX-2 a ques11on is put to Jesus by his disciples. Which did sin, nis man or his parents that he was born blind? This refers to two popular theories of the time-one, that of Moses who taught that the sins of fathers would descend on children to the third and the fourth
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