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inclines to suppose,
that
this
action
involves
one in the doom of being
killed by a louse
a hundred
thousand
times.
This ledger of Karma
is kept separate from the petty cash account;
and in respect of bulk this petty cash account
is very much
bigger than
the ledger.
If we eat too much
salmon
we
get indigestion
and perhaps nightmare.
It is silly to suppose
that a time will come when
a salmon
will
eat
us,
and find us disagree.
On the other hand
we
are always
being
terribly
punished
for actions
that
are
not
faults
at
all.
Even
our
virtues
rouse
insulted
nature
to
revenge.
Karma
only
grows
by
what
it
feeds
on:
and
if Karma
is
to
be
properly
brought
up, it requires
a very careful
diet.
With the majority
of people
their
actions
cancel
each other out;
no
sooner is effort made than it is counterbalanced
by idleness.
Eros gives
place to x\nteros.
Not one man in a thousand
makes even an apparent
escape from the
commonplace
of animal
life.
Birth is sorrow ;
Life is sorrow ;
Sorrowfiil
are old age, disease, and death;
But resurrection
is the greatest misery of all.