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DOCTRINE OF KARMA
culable misery and untimely death. It left an impression upon his mind which he carried with him and perhaps his suffering will continue even after his death in another life. Thus, we can see, how one event can be both a cause and an effect at the same time, and how it can affect the whole world producing various kinds of effects on the plane of the living as also on that of the dead. From this endless chain of cause and effect we can neither separate one single link nor call it useless or unnecessary. In the same manner, it can be shown that every action however minute or trivial it may appear to us, being conditioned by the universal law of causation, produces different effetcs visiþle and invisible and affects the whole world of phenomena either directly or indirectly. "No action can escape this law, that every cause must be followed by an effect, that every action is bound to react upon the actor with similar force and effect.
