“Karma,” according to the Hindus, “never dispels ignorance, being under the same category with it. Knowledge alone dispels ignorance, just as light alone dispels darkness.” In other words, the causal process takes place within time and cannot possibly result in deliverance from time. Such a deliverance can only be achieved as a consequence of the intervention of eternity in the temporal domain; and eternity cannot intervene unless the individual will makes a creative act of self-denial, thus producing, as it were, a vacuum into which eternity can flow.
