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WHAT KARMA IS NOT within, whose instrument is Karma, we have but one excuse for our bondage, that we lack the will to be free.
If there is no luck or chance there is no such thing as coincidence. However amazing the said 'coincidence', each set of facts was the result of previous causes. But whether the additional fact that the results fell out so strangely to our eyes has any significance is a different matter, for Law is Law but meaning is what we add to it, and the meaning drawn from any facts will vary with the individual. Many apparent coincidences are clearly the effects of previous acts. The innumerable stories of people who, by an amazing scries of events, are drawn to a particular place or away from it at the moment when a terrible event takes place are not in the least “accidents'. For some reason, which nought but a Master could trace, that person was ' meant ’, or was not 'mcant’, to be killed when the bomb fell, or whatever the cvent might bc. Taking the matter on a larger scale, it may be that a man who is incarnated into a particular family or race at a particular time was guided there by his Karma, under the laws of affinity, in order that he might be subject to the working out of national Karma, whether of war or earthquake or a period of prosperity. In a work of this size, however, it is impossible to speculate on the working out of the Law. It is enough to explain what seem to be its basic principles, and leave the individual, with an awakening intuition, to study for himself the Law which in a sense he is.
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| SR No. | 011071 |
| Book Title | Karma and Rebirth |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Christmas Humphereys |
| Publisher | Albemarle Street London |
| Publication Year | 1948 |
| Total Pages | 93 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 6 MB |