KARMA
A Study in Karma
by
Annie Besant
Published in 1917
Family
Karma
Let us consider the collective karma of a family. The
family has a thought-atmosphere of its own, into the colouring of which enter
family traditions and customs, family ways of regarding the external world,
family pride in the past, a strong sense of family honour. All the
thought-forms of a member of the family will be influenced by these conditions,
built up perhaps through hundreds of years, and shaping, moulding, colouring,
all the thoughts, desires and activities of the individual newly born into it.
Tendencies in him that conflict with family traditions
will be suppressed, all unconsciously to him; the things "a fellow cannot
do" will have for him no attraction; he will be lifted above various
temptations, and the seeds of evil which such
temptations might have vivified in him will quietly
atrophy away.
The collective karma of the family will provide him
with opportunities for distinction, open out avenues of usefulness, bring him
advantages in the struggle for life, and ensure his
success. How has he come into conditions so
favourable? It may be by a personal tie with some one already there, a service
rendered in a previous life, a bond of affection, an unexhausted relationship.
This avails to draw him into the circle, and he then profits by the various
karmic results which belong to the
family in virtue of its collective past, of the
courage, ability, usefulness of some of its members, that have left an
inheritance of social consideration as a family heirloom.
Where the family karma is bad the individual born into
it suffers, as in the former case he profits, and the collective karma hinders,
as in the former instance it promoted, his welfare.
In both cases the individual will usually have built
up in himself
characteristics which demand for their full exercise
the
environment provided by the family. But a very strong
personal tie, or unusual service, might, without this, draw a man into a family
wherein was his beneficiary, and so give him an
opportunity which, generally, he has not deserved, but
had won by this special act of his past.
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