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is to comply with the social order without complaint and hope thereby
to be born into a higher caste in their next reincarnation. Otherwise, they
believe they will be returned as plants or animals. But who is actually

evaluating the conduct of people and determining their biological form
for their next lives? Hindus cannot answer this question. The only thing
they can do is to believe that the laws of the imaginary karma system
function like the “self-governing natural laws”. However it is evident
that there cannot be any such “natural laws” and this makes the irra-