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KARMA |
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| When a Vedantin
says that everything happens according to karma it does not mean that human effort is
vain. Industry and character will have their reward and the law of karma guarantees this.
The word karma means work and in no wise refers to any mysterious pre -determination by an
outer power. Karma means work and vidhi means law, and any doctrine denoted by either of
these names cannot be equated with mystery or external pre-determination. So it should be
definitely understood that karma is not fatalism. When
we do not know the causes which have produced an event we call the result destiny or
decree of fate or chance. But this loose nomenclature means nothing but the lamenting of
results and the confession of failure to use our intelligence to find out the causes which
certainly existed and produced the result. A Samskrit word commonly used for luck is
adrishta, which means literally what was not seen. It does not mean that it is not subject
to law; it is simply what was not previously seen. |
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