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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