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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Karma Kama Loka
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