| Essence Of Hinduism |
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HINDU ETHICS |
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| We carry with us
our own past. We are our own past. The mental and moral tendencies that the soul
acquires in a particular life as a result of its motives and actions work themselves out
in suitable surroundings in the next. And new sets of tendencies are acquired, which again
seek a suitable environment in which they work themselves out. This process goes on through several lives till the soul obtains moksa or liberation. Hinduism teaches that all creatures, as long as they are creatures, are involved in this time-process which is called Samsara, the state of each creature in any particular life depending upon the good or the evil karma, of its preceding lives. They do not, of course, generally remember anything of their past lives, because their conscious memory, which has its seat in the brain, is stored only with the impression acquired in their present bodies. But besides the conscious mind there is a huge unexplored sub-conscious region in which is stored up all they’re past experience. It is this that is responsible for the working of the Law of Karma. The Law of Karma recognizes both the elements of freedom and the elements that are pre - determined in our lives. Man's will is ever free, else moral life would be impossible. But its scope is somewhat limited by his birth, environment and natural tendencies. |
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