| Essence Of Hinduism |
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HINDU ETHICS |
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| If we see that we
have been too selfish in our doings we can always atone for it by selfless social service.
For the Law of Karma does not exclude, as some critics seem to think, either repentance and
atonement or the necessity for social service and humanitarian work. God works through
laws in animate nature as well as in inanimate nature. What we call a moral law or a
natural law is an embodiment of His will. According to Hindu conceptions God is not a judge sitting in a remote heaven meting out punishments according to a penal code or waiting to mete them out till the last day of judgment, but an indwelling Spirit whose law is wrought into our natures. At the same time He never abdicates in favour of His law. Our scriptures call Hi Karma dhyaksa the Supervisor of the Law of Karma. It is He that creates the world where each soul finds an environment suited to the tendencies it acquired in a former life, and it is He that helps every soul to over come its ignorance and sin. He is like the gardener who makes the seed plots in his garden and waters them. He helps the seeds to grow, but what they grow into depends upon their own nature. Further, if a man surrenders himself entirely to God and totally forgets him self and his nature, His grace can lift where the Law of Karma operates. |
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