The Religion of the Veda: The Ancient Religion of India (from Rig-Veda to Upanishads) c11.40

c11.40

loses its sting. It is mere justice. But it is the justice that knows how to reward merit just as unerringly, as it knows how to punish sin inexorably. There is no human being so hedged in by calamity, vice, and degradation, but what he or she may start on the upward road by some act of determination for good. If the wish, “Grant me my heaven now,” fails of fulfilment, who knows that it may not be fulfilled in the train of heroic effort?