KARMA
A Study in
Karma
by
Annie Besant
Published in
1917
Fundamental Principles
In order to
understand karma, the student must begin with a clear view of certain
fundamental principles, from the lack of which many remain constantly
bewildered, asking endless questions which cannot find full solution without
the solid laying of this basis. Therefore, in this study, I begin with these,
though
many of my
readers will be already familiar with them, through previous statements of
others and of myself.
The
fundamental conception, on which all later right thinking on karma rests, is
that it is law – law eternal, changeless, invariable, inviolable, law which can
never be broken, existing in the nature of things, informed Theosophists say:
"You
must not interfere with his karma." But whenever a natural law is working,
you may interfere with it just so far as you can. You do not hear a person say
solemnly: "You must not interfere with the law of gravitation." It is
understood
that
gravitation is one of the conditions with which one has to reckon, and that one
is perfectly at liberty to counteract any inconvenience it may cause by setting
another force against it, by building a buttress to support that which
otherwise would fall to the ground under the action of gravitation, or in any
other way.
When a
condition in nature incommodes us, we use our intelligence to circumvent it,
and no one ever dreams of telling us that we must not "interfere
with" or change any condition which we dislike. We can only interfere when
we have knowledge, for we cannot annihilate any natural force, nor prevent it from
acting. But
we can neutralize, we can turn aside, its action if we have at command another
sufficient force, and while I will never abate for us one jot of its activity,
it can be held up, opposed, circumvented, exactly according to our knowledge of
its nature and working, and the forces at our disposal. Karma is no
more
"sacred" than any other natural law; all laws of nature are
expressions of the divine nature, and we live and move within them; but they
are not mandatory; they are forces which set up conditions amid which we live,
and which work in us
as well as
outside of us; we can manipulate them; we understand them, and as our
intelligence unfolds we become more and more their masters, until the man
becomes superman, and material nature becomes his servant.
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