The Beginnings of Buddhist Art and Other Essays in Indian and Central-Asian Archaeology c6.7
The Beginnings of Buddhist Art and Other Essays in Indian and Central-Asian Archaeology c6.7
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The second point is that not only the attainment of this deliverance, but the conditions even of each of the ephemeral existences are regulated automatically by a moral law as general and as unavoidable as the physical law of gravity, the law of « works », or (to employ a Sanskrit word, the use of which has been popularized by the theosophists) of Karma. At the death of each being there is drawn up a kind of debit and credit account, with assets and liabilities, between the sums of the merits and demerits accumulated by him in the course of his anterior existences : and an immediate sanction, resulting mechanically from this simple mathematical operation, fatally decides his future destiny.