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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