The disciples asked Farid: “What is fate?”
— An endless sequence of interconnected events, each influencing the other.
“And I believe in cause and effect,” said one of the students.
“Very good,” said the Master. “Yesterday a man who committed a murder was hanged in the square. Is it because someone gave him a silver coin and he bought a knife with which he committed the crime; or that someone saw him do it; or that no one stopped him? Or is it that he has bad heredity?
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru