KARMA
A Study in Karma
by
Annie Besant
Published in 1917
Perfect
Justice
From the physical agony inflicted results physical
agony endured, for karma is the restoration of the equilibrium disturbed.
Motive, in this region, does not mitigate, any more than the pain of a burn is
mitigated because the injury has
been sustained in saving a child from the fire. Where
a good motive existed, however intellectually misdirected – as the saving of
souls from the torture of hell, in the case of the inquisitor, or the saving of
bodies from the torture of disease, in the case of the vivisector – it has its
full result in the region of the character.
Hence we may find a person born deformed, with a
gentle and
patient character, showing that in a past life he
strove to see the right and did the wrong. The Angels of Judgment are utterly
just, and the golden thread of completely misdirected love may gleam beside the
black thread woven by cruelty; none the less will the black thread draw to the
doer of cruelty a misshapen body. On the other hand, where lust of power and
indifference to the pain of others have mingled their baleful influences with
the infliction of cruelty, there will be found also a mental and emotional
twist; a historical case is that of Marat, who, instead of expiating the
cruelty of the past, intensified it by new cruelty in the very life in which he
was reaping the harvest of previous evil. Hereditary and congenital diseases,
again, are the reaction from past
misdeeds. The drunkard of a previous life will be born
into a family in which drunkenness has left diseases of the nerves – epilepsy
and the like.
The profligate will be born into a family tainted with
diseases which spring from sexual vice. A "bad heredity" is the
reaction from wrong activities in the past.
Often the man who is reaping these sad harvests shows
in his moral nature that he has purged himself from the evil, though the
physical harvesting remains. A steadfast patience, a sweet enduring content,
tell that the evil lies behind, that victory has been gained, though the wounds
sustained in the conflict smart
and sting. So may a soldier, sorely maimed in a fierce
battle remain mutilated for the rest of his physical life, and yet not regret
with any keenness the anguish and the loss which mark that he has gloriously
discharged his duty to his Flag.
And these warriors who have conquered in a greater
battle need not lament too bitterly over the weakness or deformity of a body
which tells of a strife which is past, but may wear patiently the badge of a struggle
with an evil they have overcome, knowing that in another life no scar of that
struggle shall remain.
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