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BODHAYANTI PARASPARAM - VOL 9
Christian missionaries have done their best to propagate this idea that we are all negativist type. We are all fellows who are condemning ourselves to the karma theory, all that talk they have made. They are very good at it because they do good exercise, home work they do. So we are prone to believe what they say. They think that we are negativists, defeatists, condemning ourselves to what they call as fate, a word which we have not used. We have got a karma to which we say that we are bound by it, not a fate. Fate is a Christian concept, fate is not our concept. It is a borrowed concept from the West. Karma is something that is there, “Samavarthi” is the concept of God that we have got. We don’t condemn ourselves saying that we are condemned to this. There are 3 types of karma - Prarabdha, Sanchita and Agami. Karma has been defined very well. We have got always a possibility to better ourselves. We are not condemned to the burial ground waiting for the great savior to come on the doomsday to certify that I am his man. We are not condemned to that fate. We have got a choice of a rebirth. We can come again, improve ourselves and then say yes we deserve God. Ours is a positive way.
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