Capitolo 57
different from a similar theory that existed in India in front of his
time. In the Platonic idea of transmigration as us we have already seen,
to the souls it was permitted to choose them really draughts to fate according to them
experiments or it bent of character, but not to receive the natural one
consequence of their actions and misdeeds. Plato didn't say anything
on the law that governs souls; but in ancient India the great one
thinkers and philosophers explained that every individual soul is tied up
from the inexorable law of nature to receive his/her body as a disposition
consequence of his/her first actions and misdeeds, and not to free have
choice of his/her destiny according to his/her tendency of character. The great one
thinkers and philosophers of ancient India discovered the universal ones
law of cause and it effects, of action and reaction, and he/she called him/it from the
Sanskrit calls "Karma" that it intends the law of cause and sequence; that
every cause must have followed from an effect of a similar nature that
every action has to produce similar reaction, and contrarily. each
reaction or effect it is the result of an action or cause of a similar
character. I am always there so an equilibrium and the harmony among cause
and it effects, between action and reaction. This law of Karma now has
becomes a fundamental truth of modern science. You/he/she has called from
different names: the scientists call him/it the law of the causality, the law
of the compensation, the law of punishment, the law of action and
reaction but them all refer to the same idea,--that every cause it owes
produces a similar result and every action it has to produce a similar
reaction.
These ancient thinkers of India now applied this law of Karma to
you explain the destiny of human souls, and it was on this law of theirs
founded the theory of Transmigration. They maintained those souls of human creature
it is tied up from this irresistible law and you/he/she cannot go out of him; them
thoughts and actions are the causes that produce results of similar