The doctrine of karma
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Say, rough janitor moving ahead, oddly missing one trick (6,5)
Heart wraps around small piece of trifle and stays (6)
Take controversial tale inside! This can be found on top of a news article (8)
Sow the seeds in soil, it's nice all around (6)
Oh, Roy's fantastic boxing record! It's about time (8)
Kind of paper crown for clown, perhaps? (8)
Cutter's fed up with loose ends (6)
Down
Leading industrialist escaped with man from Scotland and a native of Tehran (7)
The French retailer has no love for oriental plant (8)
No side rejected one who had a lightbulb moment? (6)
Broken chord affected opera gig (8)
Eat nachos, Italian bruschetta, buttery lamb enchiladas for starters (6)
Miserable old man! Sent away daughter to meet Queen's official distributor (7)
Say, Hulk's hips? (9,4)
Judges's new table (check edges), deep dark in colour (35)
Corrupt act kills a place where animals go for supplements, perhaps (4,4)
Average man Spooner refers to as Professor Joseph? (4,3)
Make yourself small and spirit away man around noon (7)
City without a square (6)
Force husband into custody (6)
Solution to previous puzzle
Solution to yesterday’s Sudoku
What is Karma? Will it yield results directly? When will it give? Valayapettai Sri Ramachariar said in a discourse that Karma refers to the deeds undertaken by human beings. It may be a good one (punya karma) or a bad one (papa karma). Not all will ever do only either the good or the sinful deeds. People will do both with or without their knowledge.
Punya karma refers to those activities through which we derive benefits, solace, and comfort. The effect of papa karma will be that which we don’t like to come to us (e.g., disease).
Karma is a nonsentient (Achetana) and cannot give results by itself directly. God, the Supreme One, grants based on our Karma.
Adversities often compel a person to blame God, little realising that the divine Agency shows neither partiality nor favouritism.
The wealth one enjoys, or the poverty in which he is steeped are but the consequences of his past deeds — noble or wicked as the case may be.
We cannot say when the karmas will start giving results. It may be in this birth itself or in the births to come. God only knows. Good and bad Karma cannot be nullified. For every good or bad, one must face its effects separately.