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Ralph Waldo Emerson and the TRANSCENDENTALISTS

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From: Hinduism Today
Date: 20040630
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Hinduism Today
06-30-2004
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT GROW OUT of the one stems," wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson
in his essay, Compensation. "Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens
within the flower of the pleasure which concealed it. Cause and effect,
means and ends, seed and fruit, cannot be severed, for the effect already
blooms in the cause, the end pre-exists in the means, the fruit in the
seed."

Compensation was Emerson's interpretation of the Hindu law of karma. Long
before his fellow countrymen even knew Hinduism existed, he was studying
and absorbing the wisdom of the Vedas and Upanishads, The ...

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