| Western scholars,
sometimes, have appreciated the doctrine as a clever hypothesis which gives a working
explanation for the inequalities and tribulations, the 'injustices' and tragedies of human
life, without attributing to God the grave charges of partiality and cruelty. Some
other Western scholars have regretted the effect of the doctrine upon the Indian mind as
casting a note of pessimism and infasing the spirit of negation of worldly life. But the truth is that the doctrine, far from of doing this, tended to
reinforce the faith of the Indian in the ultimate values of life for their own sake,
irrespective of utility or reward. |
