The Chandogya Upanishad : 2.2 : the tripod of Indian Culture, being constituted of the Upanishads, the Brahmasutras and the Bhagavadgita.
04/02/2019 The Chandogya Upanishad : Chapter One: Vaishvanara-Vidya -2 2.THE COURSE OF THE SOUL AFTER DEATH -2. People who have done good deeds are born in favourable circumstances. This is the law of karma. The happiness, the freedom and the satisfaction that one experiences in life are due to some good deeds performed earlier, especially unselfish charitable deeds. The more you give, the more also will you receive. This is the law of action and reaction. You cannot get what you have not given. You cannot expect happiness here if you have not given happiness to others in an earlier life. If you are a greedy person, a miser who has grabbed the happiness of others and enjoyed everything for your own self and put others to grief and sorrow—that would be your fate also in this world. You would be a sufferer. You may be a poverty-stricken individual, and you may be a pauper having nothing, as the result of your selfish deeds in the previous lives. You have grabbed things from