KARMA
A Study in
Karma
by
Annie Besant
Published in
1917
Karma
KARMA
From The
Light of
It knows not
wrath nor pardon; utter true
Its measures
mete, its faultless balance weighs;
Times are as nought, tomorrow it will judge,
Or after many
days.
By this the
slayer’s knife did stab himself;
The unjust
judge hath lost his own defender;
The false
tongue dooms its lie; the creeping thief
And spoiler
rob, to render.
Such is the
Law which moves to righteousness,
Which none at
last can turn aside or stay;
The heart of
it is Love, the end of it
Is Peace and
Consummation sweet. Obey!
AMONG the
many illuminating gifts to the western world, conveyed to it by the medium of
the Theosophical Society, that of the knowledge of karma comes, perhaps, next
in importance to that of reincarnation. It removes human thought and desire
from the region of arbitrary happenings to the realm of law, and thus
places man’s
future under his own control in proportion to the amount of his knowledge.
The main
conception of karma: "As a man soweth, so shall
he also reap," is easy to grasp. But the application of this to daily life
in detail, the method of its working and its far-reaching consequences – these
are the difficulties which become more bewildering to the student as his
knowledge increases. The
principles on
which any natural science is based are, for the most part, readily intelligible
to people of fair intelligence and ordinary education; but as the student
passes from principles to practice, from outline to details, he discovers that
difficulties press upon him, and if he would wholly master his subject he finds
himself compelled to become a specialist, and to devote long periods to the
unraveling of the tangles which confront him.
So is it also
with this science of karma; the student cannot remain always in the domain of
generalities; he must study the subdivisions of the primary law, must seek to
apply it in all the circumstances of life, must learn how far it binds and how
freedom becomes
possible. He must learn to see in karma a universal law of nature, and learn
also, as in face of nature as a whole, that conquest of and rule over her can
only be gained by obedience.( "Nature is conquered by obedience".)
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