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when that happens, I do not answer for anything, because some-
times, as a reaction it becomes worse. That is why I always come
back to the same thing, say always the same thing: one must be
truly sincere, truly.
CWM 06:145-46 The Mother

Karma and Justice
The ordinary current conception of law of Karma is domi-
nantly ethical, but ethical in no very exalted kind. Its idea of
karma is a mechanical and materialistic ethics, a crudely exact
legal judgment and administration of reward and punishment,
an external sanction to virtue and prohibition of sin, a code, a
balance. The idea is that there must be a justice governing the
award of happiness and misery on the earth, a humanly intelli-
gible equity and that the law of Karma represents it and gives
us its formula. I have done so much good, puKya. It is my
capital, my accumulation and balance. I must have it paid out
to me in so much coin of prosperity, the legal currency of this
sovereign and divine Themis, or why on earth should I at all
do good? I have done so much evil. That too must come back
to me in so much exact and accurate punishment and misfor-
tune. There must be so much outward suffering or an inward
suffering caused by outward event and pressure; for if there
were not this physically sensible, visible, inevitable result,
where would be any avenging justice and where could we find
any deterrent sanction in Nature against evil? And this award
is that of an exact judge, a precise administrator, a scrupulous
merchant of good for good and evil for evil who has learned
nothing and will never learn anything of the Christian or Bud-
dhistic ideal rule, has no bowels of mercy or compassion, no
forgiveness for sin, but holds austerely to an eternal Mosaic
law, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, a full, slow or swift, but al-

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