| Hinduism Doctrine And Way Of Life |
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| Books By Rajaji |
KARMA |
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| True penitence
being the active triumph of the better over the worse, liberation has automatically taken place. Penitence is as much action as sin and represents the soul’s victory over its own immediate past. It is indeed victory felt by the inner spirit contemporaneously during the battle it self. If the doctrine of relief through penitence is not a charter for mere ritual or hypocrisy, it is as much an inherent part of Vedanta as of Christianity or any other faith. Sin is worked out in karma through the true sorrow and pain suffered by the penitent sinner. Ritual may help the determination not to sin again but it cannot by itself take the place of true sorrow. Vedanta offers to a sinful world tile same way out as the Christian doctrine of repentance does. There could be and there is no difference here. In deed the Vedantic literature on grace is voluminous and positive. The Vaishnavite cults specially emphasize the doctrine of repentance and Grace. But it is not peculiar to the Vaishnavite cults. |
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