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Karma--Its Operation and an Appraisal
It is however significant to note that the sprout comes into existence due to the seed and the same sprout develops the seeds for the future sprouts Similarly the Karma of an action leads to further Karma and it leads to further actions But if the seed is roasted the sprout will not grow from it Similarly if Karma is apoihilated through ta pas, bhakll or through arma dhyana the soul becomes pure and reaches the highest perfection
Shri Aurobrodo states that we have not been able to see the pbilosopbical reality of Karma, for two errors first, It is the strenuous paradoxical attempt to explain the supraphysical things by a physical formula and a darkening second error of setting behind the universal rule of Law and as Its causo and efficient the quite opposite idea of the cosmic reigo of Chance
In the theory of Karma, there is first assurance that in the mental and the moral world, as in the physical universe, there is no chaos, fortuitous rule of chance of mere probability, but an ordered Energy at work which assures its will by law and fixed relations and steady succession and the links of ascertainable cause and effectuality to be assured that there is an all-pervading mental law and an all-pervading moral law, is a great gain a supporting foundation That in the mental and moral, as in the physical world, what I sow in the proper soil, I shall assuredly reap, 18 a guarantee of divine gevernment, of equilibrium, of cosmos, it not only grounds life upon an adamant underbase of law, but by removing anarchy opens the way to a greater liberty 'Karma theory teaches us that the soul enters this life, not as a fresh creation, but after a long course of previous existences on this earth and elsewhere, lo which it acquired its present inbering peculiarities and that it is on the way to future transformations which the soul 18 now abaping It claims that infancy brings to earth, not a blank scroll for the beginning of an earthly record, nor a mere cobesion of atomic forces into a brief personality soon to disclose again into the elements but that is inscrlbed with ancestral histories some like the present scene and most of them unlike it and stretching back into the remoteat past The current phase of Ilfe will also be stored away in the secret vaults of memory for its uncong clous effect upon ensuing lives'
Karma 18 wbat we have done, and we have to enjoy the karmic results Therefore it follows that the future is only the past It should therefore be possible to predict the future The astrologer feels, by means of his art, the unexpended Karma and tries to read it Planets therefore simply indl. cate the results of previous Karma and hence there is nothing like fate or destiny 10 its absolute sense controlling the spiritual self The ego accumulates a fund of individual character wbich remains as the permancot thread stringing together the separate lives The soul is therefore an eternal water globule, which sprang 10 the beginninglese past from mother occan
