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moment is the effect of the sum total of all the impressions due to my past life. This is really what is meant by character ; each man's character is determined by the sum total of these impressions of past life and thought. If good impressions prevail, the character becomes good; if bad ones prevail, it becomes bad. If a man continuously hears bad words, thinks bad thoughts, does bad actions, his mind will be full of bad impressions or marks; and they, unconsciously, will govern the tendency of his thought and work. In fact, these bad impressions are always working, and their expression in his case must be evil; and that man will be a bad man; he cannot help it; the sum total of these impressions in him create the strong motive power for the doing of bad actions ; he will be like a machine in the hands of his impressions, and they will force him to do evil. Similarly, if a man thinks good thoughts and does good works, the sum total of his motive-making mental impressions will be good; and they, in a similar manner, will force him to do good even in spite of
