KARMA
A Study in Karma
by
Annie Besant
Published in 1917
Karma
KARMA
From The Light of
It knows not wrath nor pardon; utter true
Its measures mete, its faultless balance weighs;
Times are as nought, tomorrow it will judge,
Or after many days.
By this the slayer’s knife did stab himself;
The unjust judge hath lost his own defender;
The false tongue dooms its lie; the creeping thief
And spoiler rob, to render.
Such is the Law which moves to righteousness,
Which none at last can turn aside or stay;
The heart of it is Love, the end of it
Is Peace and Consummation sweet. Obey!
AMONG the many illuminating gifts to the western
world, conveyed to it by the medium of the Theosophical Society, that of the
knowledge of karma comes, perhaps, next in importance to that of reincarnation.
It removes human thought and desire from the region of arbitrary happenings to
the realm of law, and thus
places man’s future under his own control in
proportion to the amount of his knowledge.
The main conception of karma: "As a man soweth,
so shall he also reap," is easy to grasp. But the application of this to
daily life in detail, the method of its working and its far-reaching
consequences – these are the difficulties which become more bewildering to the
student as his knowledge increases. The
principles on which any natural science is based are,
for the most part, readily intelligible to people of fair intelligence and
ordinary education; but as the student passes from principles to practice, from
outline to details, he discovers that difficulties press upon him, and if he
would wholly master his subject he finds himself compelled to become a
specialist, and to devote long periods to the unraveling of the tangles which
confront him.
So is it also with this science of karma; the student
cannot remain always in the domain of generalities; he must study the
subdivisions of the primary law, must seek to apply it in all the circumstances
of life, must learn how far it binds and how
freedom becomes possible. He must learn to see in
karma a universal law of nature, and learn also, as in face of nature as a whole,
that conquest of and rule over her can only be gained by obedience.(
"Nature is conquered by obedience".)
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Preface
Theosophy and the Masters General Principles
The Earth Chain Body and Astral Body Kama – Desire
Manas Of Reincarnation Reincarnation Continued
Karma Kama Loka
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