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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