1V1YSTKJ EXPERIENCES

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facPtfiat ^tfie'past evil Ktimia has prevailed m that one instance.
Ho^.'fipes it forbid, or mISsS impossible, all future effort ?

'^TK'eri let the man ^ad under foot relentlessly, the thought
that hi^ast fale Is'liriyihg him. It is not stronger than his
present feeling^^"' 'ability to resist. The man who disregards
the immediate evidence of his senses, and would put greater
faith in baseless inference, surely insists that his two arms are
snakes, and struggles violently to free himself from them*
Having a present feeling of ability to work contrariwise, how
should the man allow himself to say that he is driven helplessly
by his old Karma into evil courses ? Surely such a man is
most unfortunate, and never saw a great example. Let him
trample down, I say, such weakling thoughts. Let him
labour hard to gain deliverance from his bonds. Let him look
always on his house of flesh as something that will pass away
one day. And let him therefore strenuously avoid the actions
and indulgences that mark the beast, and strive to live the life
that marks him man. Let him not delay, thinking <! will do
later,^ for the chance may not come soon again. Let him
associate with the good, and study hard, and let him never
fear his labour will be vain, for there are great examples that
have gone before him. So shall be free himself from helpless
births and deaths, and so (attain the endless joy of Peace
wherein all things are Equal, yea, One and the Same, which
the wise ones say is highest end of human effort; for sense
of Inequality and Separateness is source of Misery."

CHAPTER V
The Meaning of Destiny.

"Then is there no such thing as Destiny, 0 Sage ?" asked
R5ma. ^Is it not true that all the Future is already present
in the Present, that all the Present was existent in the Past ?"