Part VII
THE DESTINY OF THE REINCARNATING
INDIVIDUAL
THE series of incarnations which the soul is impelled to take through Karmic determination, has a tendency to become endless. Karmic debts and dues Through innumerable lives the aspirant has come into contact with countless persons, and he has had all kinds of dealings of give and take with them. He is entangled in a web consisting of all sorts of debts to pay and dues to recover. According to Karmic law he can avoid neither the debts nor the dues, since both are the outcome of Karma inspired by desire. He keeps incarnating in order to pay off his debts and to recover his dues, but even when he means to clear up the account he is often unable to do so.
All persons with whom a man has Karmic links of debts or dues may not be incarnate when he has taken a body. Difficulty of clearing up debts and dues Or, owing to the limitations imposed by his own capacities and circumstances, he may be unable to meet all the complex requirements of the situation. When he is trying to clear up accounts with those with whom he has past links, in
this very attempt he cannot help creating fresh claims and counterclaims concerning them. Even with new persons he cannot help but create debts and dues of diverse kinds and magnitudes, and get involved with them. A man goes on adding to his debts and dues with the result that there is no getting out of his endlessly increasing and complex Karmic entanglements.
The spinning of the yarn of Karmic debts and dues would be endless if there had been no provision for getting out of the Karmic entanglements through the help of the Master. He can not only initiate the aspirant into the supreme art of unbinding Karma, but can become directly instrumental in freeing him from his Karmic entanglements. Master can assist clearing debts and dues The Master has attained unity with God, Whose cosmic and universal life includes all persons. Being one with all life, he can become, in his representative capacity for the sake of the aspirant, the medium for the clearing up of all debts and dues which have come into existence through the aspirants dealings with countless persons contacted in his incarnations. If a person must get bound to someone, it is best for him to get bound to God or the Master, because this tie ultimately facilitates emancipation from all other Karmic ties.
When the good Karma of past lives has secured for the aspirant the benefit of having a Master, the best thing that he can do is to surrender himself to the Master and to serve him. Relation between Master and disciple carried on through several lives Through surrenderance the aspirant throws the burden of his Karma on the Master who has to think out ways and means of freeing him from it. Through serving the Master he wins an opportunity to get clear of his Karmic entanglements. The relation between the Master and
