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Many of them may have nothing else. They may be poor and ignorant, but they have good karma, and so they find themselves at the feet of the Sadguru.
THE KARMA DOCTRINE....
On the other hand, a man in Europe or America may have great intelligence, wealth and position, yet his karma of past lives may not have entitled him to meet a Sadguru in this life; not because they live far away. Would find him even if he had to come across the seas to them. In every case it is the good karma that brings the soul to the Sadguru.
.The final goal, the extreme good fortune, the very highest reward of good karma is to bring the individual to the Sadguru, assuring his early liberation from the wheel of rebirths and of re-deaths. Like all other teachings of the Sadgurus, this is founded upon observation and personal experience, upon sight and hearing, upon positive knowledge. When anyone enters the higher fields of knowledge, he is able to watch the operation of karma and reincarnation, to see clearly and remember his own past lives, to see exactly how the law of karma and reincarnation works out in his long succession of lives, how he came and went, times without number, always bringing with him his unsettled accounts. The great law is then no longer a more theory or a doctrine to him.
REFERENCES:
1. Vacanāmṛta, Ga., 11.
2. Ibid., Ga., 13.
3. Ibid., Ga., 24.
4. Ibid., Ga., 29.
5. Ibid., Ga., 55.
6. Ibid., Ga., 58.
7. Ibid., Sa., 9.
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Paper presented at the Seminar on "Bharatiya Darśano-mām Karmamimämsä", organized by L. D. Institute of Indology, Ahmedabad-380 015, in 2122 April 2003.
8. Ibid., Lo., 8.
9. Ibid., G. II, 27.
10. Ibid., G. II, 29.
11. Ibid., G. II, 45.
12. Ibid., G. II, 59.
13. Ibid., Var. 6.
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