KARMA
A Study in
Karma
by
Annie Besant
Published in
1917
Our Environment
The nation
and the family into which a man is born give him the field suitable for the
development of faculties he needs, or for the exercise of faculties he has
gained, which are required for the helping of others at that place and time.
Sometimes a
strenuous life passed in the company of superiors, which has stimulated latent
powers and quickened the growth of germinal faculties, is followed by one of
ease amid ordinary people, in order to test the reality of the strength
acquired and the solidity of the apparent conquest over self.
Sometimes,
when an ego has definitely gained certain mental faculties and has secured them
as part of his mental equipment by sufficient practice, he will be born into
surroundings where these are useless, and confronted by tasks of a most
uncongenial nature. A man ignorant of karma will fret and fume, will
perform
grudgingly his distasteful duties, and will think regretfully of his
"wasted talents, while that fool Jones is in a place which he is not fit
to fill"; he does not realise that Jones has to
learn a lesson which he himself has already mastered, and that he himself would
not be evolving further by repeating
over again that which he has already done. In a
similar situation, the knower of karma will quietly study his surroundings,
will realise that he would gain nothing by doing that
which it would be easy for him to do – i.e., that which he has already done
well in the past – and will address himself contentedly to the
uncongenial work, seeking to understand what it has to teach
him, and resolutely settling himself to learn the new lesson.
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