KARMA
A Study in
Karma
by
Annie Besant
Published in
1917
Karma Does Not Crush
Now Karma is
the great law of nature, with all that that implies. As we are able to move in
the physical universe with security, knowing its laws, so may we move in the
mental and moral universes with security also, as we learn their laws.
The majority
of people, with regard to their mental and moral defects, are much in the
position of a man who should decline to walk upstairs because of the law of
gravitation. They sit down helplessly, and say: "That is my nature. I
cannot help it." True, it is the man’s nature, as he has made it in the
past, and it is
"his karma". But by a knowledge
of karma he can change his nature, making it other tomorrow than it is today.
He is not in the grip of an inevitable destiny, imposed upon him from outside;
he is in a world of law, full of natural forces
which he can utilise to
bring about the state of things which he desires.
Knowledge and
will – that is what he needs. He must realize that karma is not a power which
crushes, but a statement of conditions out of which invariable results accrue.
So long as he lives carelessly, in a happy-go-lucky way, so long will he be
like a man floating on a stream, stuck by any passing log, blown
aside by any casual breeze, caught in any chance eddy.
This spells failure, misfortune, unhappiness. The law
enables him to compass his ends successfully, and places within his reach
forces which he can utilise.
He can
modify, change, remake on other lines the nature which is the inevitable
outcome of his previous desires, thoughts, and actions; that future nature is
as inevitable as the present, the result of the conditions which he now
deliberately makes. "Habit is second nature," says the proverb, and
thought creates habits. Where there is Law, no achievement is impossible, and
karma is the guarantee of man’s evolution into mental and moral perfection.
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