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PRACTICE OF KARMA YOGA
becomes in turn the cause of a tree. The grown-up father procreates a son, and the son in turn becomes a father. The cause is found in the effect and the eflect is found in the cause. The effect is similar to the cause. This is the universal chain of cause and effect which has no end No link in the chain is necessary This world runs on this fundamental, vital law This law is inexorable and immutable
Scientists are carefully observing the phenomena of Nature and are trying to find out the exact causes of all that take place in Nature The astronomer sits in his observatory with his long, powerful telescope and watches the heavenly map, and studies the stars and planets very carefully He tries to find out the exact causes that bring about the phenomena The reflective philosopher sits in a contemplative mood and tries to find out the cause of this world, the cause of the pains and miseries of this Samsara and the cause of the phenomena of this birth and death.
No event can occur without having a positive, definite cause at the back of it The breaking out of war, the rise of a comet, the occutance of an earthquake or a valcanic eruption, thunder, lightning, floods, diseases of the body, fortune, misfortuneall have definite causes behind them
If you develop a carbuncle or get a fracture of the leg or arm, this is obviously due to some bad Karma in your previous birth The bad Karma was the cause and the carbuncle or fracture is the effect. If you get
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