KARMA
A Study in Karma
by
Annie Besant
Published in 1917
Understand
The Truth
This seems to be obvious: whence then arises the
general instinct that success in life should accompany goodness? We can
successfully combat an error only when we understand the truth which lies at
the heart of it, gives it its vitality, and leads to its spread and its
persistence. The truth in this case is that, if
a man puts himself into accord with the divine law,
happiness is the result of such harmony. The error is to identify worldly success
with happiness, and to disregard the element of time. A man going into business
determines to be truthful, and to take no unfair advantage over others.
He sees those who are untruthful and unscrupulous
going ahead of him; if he is weak, he becomes discouraged, even, perchance,
imitates them. If he is strong, he says: "I will work in harmony with the
divine law, no matter what may be the immediate worldly results": inner
peace and happiness are then his, but success does not accrue to him; nevertheless,
in the long run even that may fall to him, for what he loses in money he gains
in confidence, whereas the man who once betrays may at any
time betray again, and none will trust him. In a
competitive society, lack of scrupulousness yields immediate success, whereas
in a cooperative society conscientiousness would "pay". To give
starvation wages to workers forced by competition to accept them may lead to
immediate success as against business
rivals, and the man who gives a decent living wage may
find himself outpaced in the race for wealth; but, in the long run, the latter
will have better work done for him, and in the future will reap the harvest of
happiness whereof he sowed the seed.
We must decide on our course and accept its results,
not looking for money as payment for goodness, nor seeing injustice when
unscrupulous shrewdness reaches that at which it aimed.
An instructive, if not very pleasant, Indian story is
told of a man who wronged another, and the injured man cried for redress to the
King. When the punishment to be inflicted on his enemy was given into his
hands, he prayed the King to enrich his foe; asked for the reason of his
strange behaviour, he grimly said that wealth and worldly prosperity would give
him greater opportunities for wrongdoing, and would thus entail on him bitter
suffering in the life after death.
Often the worst enemy of virtue is in easy material
conditions, and these, which are spoken of as good karma, are often the reverse
in their results. Many who do fairly well in adversity go astray in prosperity,
and become intoxicated with worldly delights. Let us now consider how a man
affects his surroundings, or, in scientific phrase, how the organism acts on
its environment.
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KARMA
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