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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Preface
Theosophy and the Masters General Principles
The Earth Chain Body and Astral Body Kama – Desire
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