A STUDY IN KARMA/PART 10
APPLY THIS LAW
We
have now to apply this law to ordinary human life, to apply principle to
practice. It has been the loss of the intelligible relations between eternal
principles and transitory events that has rendered modern religion so
inoperative in common life. A man will clean up his backyard when he
understands the relation between dirt and disease; but he leaves his mental and
moral backyards uncleansed, because he sees no relation between his mental and
moral defects and the various ghastly after-death experiences with which he is
threatened by religions. Hence he either disbelieves the threats and goes
carelessly on his way, or hopes to escape consequences by some artificial
compact with the authorities. In either case, he does not cleanse his ways.
When he realizes that law is as inviolable in the mental and moral worlds as in
the physical, it may well be hoped that he will become as reasonable in the
former as he already is in the latter.
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