Study in Karma

Author(s): Annie Besant
Publisher: Theosophist Office Adyar

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FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES
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learn also, as in face of nature as a whole, that conquest of and rule over her can only be gained by obedience.'
FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES
. In order to understand karma, the student must begin with a clear view of certain fundamental principles, from the lack of which many remain constantly bewildered, asking endless questions which cannot find full solution without the solid laying of this basis. Therefore, in this study, I begin with these, though many of my readers will be already familiar with them, through previous statements of others and of
myself.
The fundamental conception, on which all later right thinking on karma rests, is that it is law-law eternal, changeless, invariable, inviolable, law which can never be broken, existing in the
1" Vature is conquered by obedience."