KARMA
A Study in Karma
by
Annie Besant
Published in 1917
A
Lesson of The Law
This is the great lesson taught by science to the
present generation. Religion has taught it for ages, but dogmatically rather
than rationally. Science proves that knowledge is the condition of freedom, and
that only as man knows can he
compel. The scientific man observes sequences; over
and over again he performs his testing experiments; he eliminates all that is
casual, collateral, irrelevant, and slowly, surely, discovers what constitutes
an invariable causative sequence. Once sure of his facts, he acts with
indubitable assurance, and nature, without shadow of turning, rewards his
rational certainty with success.
Out of this assurance grows "the sublime patience
of the investigator". Luther Burbank, in California, will sow millions of
seeds, select some thousands of plants, pair a few hundreds, and patiently
march to his end; he can trust the laws of nature, and, if he fails, he knows
that the error lies with him, not
with them.
There is a law of nature that masses of matter tend to
move towards the earth. Shall I then say: "I cannot walk up the stairs; I
cannot fly in the air"? Nay, there are other laws. I pit against the force
that holds me on the ground, another force stored in my muscles, and I raise my
body by means of it. A person with muscles weak from fever may have to stay on
the ground-floor, helpless; but I break no law when I put forth muscular force,
and walk upstairs.
The inviolability of Law does not bind – it frees. It
makes Science possible, and rationalises human effort. In a lawless universe,
effort would be futile, reasons would be useless. We should be savages,
trembling in the grip of forces, strange, incalculable, terrible.
Imagine a chemist in a laboratory where nitrogen was
now inert, now explosive, where oxygen vivified today and stifled tomorrow! In
a lawless universe we should not dare to move, not knowing what any action
might bring about. We move sagely, surely, because of the inviolability of Law.
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