We now come to the second principle on which we all agree,
not only all Hindus, but all Buddhists and all Jains.
We all agree that life is
eternal. It is not that it has sprung out of nothing, for that cannot be. Such
a life would not be worth having. … …
You know it already that each one of us
is the effect of the infinite past; the child is ushered into the world not as
something flashing from the hands of nature, as poets delight so much to
depict, but he has the burden of an infinite past; for good or evil he comes to
work out his own past deeds.
That makes the differentiation.
This is the law of
Karma.
Each one of us is the maker of his own fate.
This law knocks on the head
at once all doctrines of predestination and fate and gives us the only means of
reconciliation between God and man.
- Swami Vivekananda,
Address at Jaffna
Lectures From
Colombo
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