This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 Excerpt: ...karm (Sanskrit manomusa karma). This comprises the ordinary human sins. The karma that elevates character and insures rebirth as a higher being, even a god, is rather ignored. In common use karma gets to mean sin committed in a previous existence--that and nothing more. Another, less ancient idea, which at a ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 Excerpt: ...karm (Sanskrit manomusa karma). This comprises the ordinary human sins. The karma that elevates character and insures rebirth as a higher being, even a god, is rather ignored. In common use karma gets to mean sin committed in a previous existence--that and nothing more. Another, less ancient idea, which at a comparatively early time entangles the Hindu mind in a paradox, takes the place of the more philosophical karma. It is the idea of fate or decree (Sanskrit daivam).3 So the distinguished Sanskrit poet Bhartrhari, in his famous Centuries of Lyric Stanzas:4 'See Professor Winteraitz's interesting paper, 'Das Schicksal im Glauben und Denken der Inder, ' Allgemeine Zeitung, May 3d and 5th, 1902. The wise Creator wrote upon thy brow, When thou wast born what wealth should once be thine; The sum was great perhaps or small; yet now Thy fate is fixed, and sure the law divine. For if thou dwell within the desert's rim, Thou shall have nothing less than is his will; Nor will there more apportioned be to him That hastes to Meru's gold-abounding hill. In the same spirit says Nanak: The die is cast, no one can undo it. What know I of the future's happening? Whate'er pleases Him, that hath occurred; No one but Him doth act. Ravidas boldly denies free will: Were I not to sin, O Timeless Spirit! How could thy name be Purifier of Sinners? In practice the Sikhs throughout their secular history are quite as fatalistic as the Mohammedans, and up to a certain point their fatalism contributed to their political success. Here, again, there is no new doctrine, and nothing that the rest of the Hindu people of the time disavowed or hesitated to apply when they were so minded. If, after all this, it is plainly impossible to find anything that is at the same time important and new ...
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