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Theology teaches that we are punished for our sins. However, the higher teachings of yoga says that we are punished by our own ignorance - by our own mistakes.
The Law of Karma is in constant operation all through our lives. We reap what we sow, not as a punishment for what we have done wrong, but because the effect must always follow the cause. Accident is the result of ignorance, and is due to the working of laws whose presence was unknown or overlooked. In the mental and moral worlds, as much as the physical, results can be forseen, planned for, calculated on. Nature never betrays us, we are betrayed by our own blindness, our own ignorance.
We are surely the architects of our own destinies by the way we think. The Buddhists say: 'You do not get what you want - you get who you are.' We attract to ourselves circumstances and situations we have already created by the way we think.
Thoughts crystallise into habit, and habit solidifies into circumstances. We are always willing to change our circumstances, but very rarely willing to change ourselves. And so, in accordance with the Law of Karma - the law of Consequence - we are ever bound to circumstance, like an invisible hand pulling us down into the never-ending mire of destiny.
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