Study in Karma

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

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A STUDY IN KARMA
nature of things. It is the want of this conception which makes the uninformed Theosophist say: “ You must not interfere with his karma.” But whenever a natural law is working, you may interfere with it just so far as you can. You do not hear a person say solemnly: “ You must not interfere with the law of gravitation.” It is understood that gravitation is one of the conditions with which one has to reckon, and that one is perfectly at liberty to counteract any inconvenience it may cause by setting another force against it, by building a buttress to support that which otherwise would fall to the ground under the action of
gravitation, or in any other way. · When a condition in nature incommodes us, we use our intelligence to circumvent it, and no one ever dreams of telling us that we must not “interfere with " or change any condition which we dislike. We can only inter