Science of Reincarnation Toll of Karma

Author(s): B Sriniketan Bhandari
Publisher: B Sriniketan Bhandari

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The Science of Reincarnation,
The Toll of Karma
outcome is that such actions resulted in loss and suffering of millions of lives. Thus, the human made laws suffer from imperfections.
One may ask another question regarding other forms of life. Why the same law should apply for other forms of life? What's the big deal if you kill an animal? Let us approach this point from a different angle.
Consider you have a pet dog or a cat and someone kills it. How would you feel? Would you not take that person to court for justice? If you would, why? But you would not fight for the killing of other animals because it does not concern you directly. It is a well known fact that animals do have a life force working in their bodies the same way as we do. If you look at the genetic information you will find that it is very similar to humans.
Recently many of the genes have been discovered by scientists. These genes possess the informative force to control the life form on this planet. You would be surprised to compare the building blocks of life force, the DNA sequences of different animals and human beings. A gene whether from a human being or from an animal will have a very similar DNA sequence of homology. This may be one of the reason that why lots of animals are
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