KARMA
A Study in
Karma
by
Annie Besant
Published in
1917
The Mastery of Desire
We can change
desires by thought. The desire nature with which we are born is good, bad, or
indifferent, and it follows its own way in early childhood.
Presently we
examine it, and mark some desires as useful, others as useless or even noxious.
We then form a mental image of the desire nature which would be useful and
noble, and we deliberately set to work to create it by thought-power.
There are
some physical desires which we see will bring about disease if left
uncontrolled: eating too much, because of the gratification of the palate;
drinking alcoholic liquors, because they exhilarate and vivify; yielding to the
pleasures of sex. We see in the persons of others that these cause obesity,
shaken nerves, premature exhaustion. We determine not to yield to them; we
bridle the horses of the senses with the bits and reins of the mind, and
deliberately hold them in, although they struggle; if they are very refractory
we call up the image of the glutton, the drunkard, the worn-out profligate, and
so create a repulsion for the causes which made them what they are. And so with
all other desires. Deliberately choose out and
encourage those which lead to refining and elevating pleasures, and reject
those which result in coarseness of body and of mind.
There will be
failures in your resistance, but in spite of failures, persevere. At first, you
will yield to the desire, and only remember too late that you had resolved to
abstain; persevere. Presently the desire and the memory of the good resolution
will arise together, and there will be a period of struggle – your Kurukshetra – and you will sometimes succeed and
sometimes fail; persevere. Then successes will multiply,
and failures be few; persevere. Then desire dies, and you watch beside its
tomb, lest it should only be entranced, and revive. Finally you have done with
that form of desire for ever. You have worked with the law and have conquered.
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