Scott called himself an atheist, but he believed in a type of karma, leftover, puritanical guilt from a strict, Protestant upbringing. |
Those states in which the results of karma are perceived or enjoyed are in fact the states of darkness, characterized by ignorance. |
As he says, In the standard Hindu view one's birth in a particular caste is determined by one's karma in a previous life. |
The sin sheep eat the soul grass, and the souls work off bad karma in the sheep's unspeakably putrid intestinal track. |
They were dogs that had not the karma of household pets, or strays at the pound, but that of the seekers of ecumenical truth. |
And if you understand karma, you know that if people don't get it back in this world, they're going to get it back in the next world. |