The Function of the Law of Karma in Hinduism
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A race with more power of will and more delight in life might have held that the soul is the one agent that can stand firm and unshaken midst the flux of circumstance.
He is disposed to think of it not as created with the birth of the body, but as a drop drawn from some ocean to which it is destined to return.
In previous births he has already been a great many persons and he will be a great many more.
And what he craves is not eternal personal activity, but unbroken rest in which personality, even if supposed to continue, can have little meaning.
Karma is best known as a term of the Buddhists, who are largely responsible both for the definition and wide diffusion of the doctrine.
The word (which means simply deed) is the accepted abbreviation for the doctrine that all deeds bring upon the doer an accurately proportionate consequence either in this existence, or, more often, in a future birth.
That tenement is simply the home which it is able to occupy in virtue of the configuration and qualities which it has induced in itself.
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