KARMA
A Study in
Karma
by
Annie Besant
Published in
1917
India’s Karma
There was an
article published in East and West – Mr. Malabari’s
paper – some time ago on the national karma of
national
karma of India was that it should be conquered – obviously true, else the
conquest of India would not have taken place – and that it should therefore
accept its lot of service, and not try to change any of the existing conditions
– as obviously wrong. The knower of karma would say: The Indians were not the
original possessors of this country; they came down from Central Asia, conquering
the land, subduing its then peoples, and reducing them to servitude; during
thousands of years they conquered and ruled, and they generated a national
karma.
They trod
down the conquered tribes, and made them slaves,
oppressing them and taking advantage of them. The bad karma
thus made brought down upon them in turn many invaders. Greeks, Mughals, Portuguese, Dutch, French, English – they all
came, and fought, and conquered, and possessed. Still the lesson of karma has
not been learned, though the millions of the
untouchables are a standing proof of the wrongs inflicted
upon them.
Now the
Indians ask for a share in the government of their own country, and they are
hampered by this bad national karma. Let them, then, while asking for the
growth of freedom for themselves, atone to these
untouchables by giving them social
freedom and lifting them in the social scale. A national
effort must remove this national evil, and do away with a continuing cause of
national weakness.
India must
redeem the wrong she has done, and cleanse her hands from oppression; so shall
she change her national karma, and build the foundation of freedom. Karma will
work for freedom and not against it, when the karma generated by oppression is
changed into the karma made by uplifting and respecting. Public feeling can be
changed, and every man who speaks graciously and kindly to an inferior is
helping to change it. Meanwhile all whose own individual karma has brought them
into the nation should recognise
facts as they are, but should set to work to change those that are undesirable.
National karma may be changed, like individual karma, but as the causes are of
longer continuance, so must be the effects, and the new causes introduced can
only slowly modify the results outgrowing from the past.
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