Vicharmala Granth Satik Pustak 1 to 8

Author(s): Anathdas Sadhu, Govinddas Sadhu
Publisher: Heeralal Dhole

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INTRODUCTION.
by a person during uis life-time after he has arrived at yearsof discretis good and bad are alike included in them. There are several varieties of works which need not detain us, suffice it to say that for 'the good deeds done, one inherits the hlissful abode of heaven, as for their reverse, an extremely miserable condition. But as human life is generally made up of both good and bad, a person has to suffer happiness and misery both in one life. Even if he were to be an inmate of heaven, his downward progression to a nether sphere to reap what he had sown is as sure as night follows day: and this rule is so inexhorable that even Iswar cannot stop its force, but must allow things to bave their course in their natural order of sequence.
Actions are non-eternus. Their products are likewise so. From which it follows that even after acquiring the blissful abode of Brahmå one is to rebabilitate the body of an earthly creature. Here it may be contended if action is so inexhorable how can a theosophist be freed? The reply is, there are three grades of casks. The accumulated, fructescent, and current: of thêm the first and the last are destroyed by knowledge leaving the fructescent quite unaffected, for which they are said to be exhausted by actual consummation. In short, even a theosophist is compelled to suffer or enjoy tappiness as a result of actions done in a prior birth and which have commenced to bear fruit in the present. This is why we find such & vast amount of difference in the graduated scale of happiness everywhere in the world. For instance, bad men are rolling in riches, while the patient and industrious are scarcely able to keep body and soul together. Similarly amongst the wise, we find