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You feel abandoned to their vengeance, a helpless victim at the mercy of a power that forces you to suffer, owing to some hidden law that human understanding cannot grasp.
Tightly fettered by the bonds of ancient speculation, your mind in vain attempts to find a “sinful” deed, some “wrong” you have committed, as “punishment” for which you might explain the harm that has befallen you.
With this idea, however, you entrap yourself already in a first insidious delusion; for there is nowhere any such “avenger” having power, as imagined by that blind belief of ancient days, to mete out “penance” for your “guilt.”
To be sure, each action in itself contains its inescapably determined consequence, and no one ever shall be able to evade the repercussions of his deeds. However, you may also be afflicted by suffering and grievous pain that certainly did not result from anything you might have done.
Do not yourself make grief that you must suffer even worse by harboring tormenting thoughts, in the erroneous belief that, if you could but trace the cause of your distress to something you have done, your anguish might be lessened.