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The Gita according to Gandhi -Mahadev Desai

B. THE GITA VIEW 3. KARMA AND REBIRTH And if He is the Accountant and the Judge, His book cannot be the narrow book of a man's lifetime but the vast one of countless lifetimes. What we are, what we think, what we do is the result of what we have been through ages gone by. Locke, when he insisted that the mind at birth is a tabula rasa was talking from a limited experience. Bacon before him had penetrated into the truth deeper, and in his famous Idols he gave the world more perhaps than he knew. 'Human mind is born,' he said; composed like 'uneven mirrors' imparting 'their properties to different objects'. Those unevennesses could not but have their roots in various pre-existences. Even primitive man knew that one reaped what one sowed, but the Indian seer found out the universality of the law and made an attempt to gauge its stupendous implications.