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CHAPTER VI
ENERGY OF MATTER
Friends, you have now properly grasped what tremendous strength these particles of Karma possess.
Every embodied soul is laden with the layers of Karma. Karma has a direct or remote relation with the exterior perceptible universe.
It is due to the influence of the particles of our Karma that the sun and the moon move in precision of time, in the ordered manner in their chartered course in the spheres and do not crash on the earth.
It is also due to this influence that the ocean does not roll beyond limits.
The conflagration of the forest does not envelop the world, the rains do not pour in deluge to drown the world, the earthquake does not shake to entomb the world in the bowels of the earth; not all the the lightnings in the monsoon fall to strike the earth; the molecules of Karma of all the living beings play their role behind the above phenomena. How can all be dragged into the jaws of death, when the forceful time-bombs of their life-sustaining molecules of Karma have exploded and are at work? Yes, it is true that at times even the ocean trangresses the limits of its sweep; at times an earthquake shakes the earth; at times even a lightning falls at some place and the cause of it is that the lives of the beings located at a particular place at a particular time are fated for the calamity of death.
In short, in the dispensation of the whole universe, the molecules of Karma have a vital share.
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