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PRACTICE OF KARMA YOGA
remembrance suffered in consequence thereof? Nothing which is inherent in anything stands in need of a cause How could it be that a child, who has not experienced this liability to death in the present life, should, as he is falling down from the mother's lap, begin to tremble and hold with his hands tightly the necklace hanging on her breast? How is it that such a child should experience the fear of death, which can only be caused by the memory of the pain consequent upon aversion to death, whose existence is conferred by the trembling of the child?
We have boy-geniuses A boy of five becomes an expert on the piano or violin Sri Jnanadev wrote his commentary "Jnaneshwari" on the Gita when he was fourteen years old. There have been boy-mathematicians. There was the boy-Bhagavatar in Madras who conducted Kathas when he was eight years old How could you explain these strange phenomena? They are not freaks of nature The theory of transmigration only could explain all these things If one man gets deep grooves in his mind by learning music or mathematics in this birth, he carries these impressions to the next birth and becomes a prodigy in these sciences even when he is a boy.
According to the Christian faith, the ultimate fate of the righteous is life eternal, of the evil, everlasting fire or eternal damnation. How could this be? No opportunity is afforded to the sinner to purify himself in later births
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