Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

242 WJTAT IS KAR:'IU '? [December
tion ; that if a man he good, upright, moral, in all hiR dealings,
be will reincarnate under favorable conditions; that if his life
be ruled by the opposite principle!!, the conditions of his next
incarnation will, in proportion to hiil errorR, be unfavorable.
Thus far we may go with them, but when they adcl to thi!l the
grossest errors in order to juMtify them11elves in gratifying the
most vitiated appetites and pasRions, then we want none of it.
For instance, they holcl a doctrine, growing ont of this theory
of Karma, that, unless one satiRfies every evil desire, appetite,
and passion, he will store np in himself th:Lt pasRion and desire,
which, greatly augmented, will fincl ma.nifeRta.tion 111 another
life.
Let the reader pau!le and think where this doctt·ine wonltl
lead the people, were it genet·ally taught and believed among
them; yet thi11 is what is gt;nerally taught by the Hindu believers
in Karma and by their WeMtem followers. While t.he
latter keep this thought in the background, yet a Rtndent of
their works will find it cropping up in vat·ious vlac•e!l in alt~lOst
all of their books whic~h treat of Kartna. Man.v uf then• deny
that they hnld this belief: in Rome C&Rell, becanRe the.v at·e not
thoroughly converRant with their own philosophy: in ntluws,
hecau!le they know the impresllion Rneh a d~tt·ine will make
upon the ChriRtian mind.
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