Study in Karma

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

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of gravitation remains active and is found in the pressure on the obstacle. The first condition is called the cause. the resulting condition the effect, and the same cause always brings about the same effect, provided no other cause is introduced; in the latter case. the, effect is the resultant of both.
THE LAW OF LAWS
THE LAW OF LAWS
Karma is natural law in the full sense of the term; it is Universal Causation, the Law of Cause and Effect. It may be said to underlie all special laws, all causes and effects. It is natural law in all its aspects and in all its subdivisions; it is not a special law, but a universal condition, the one law whereon all other laws depend, of which all other laws are partial expressions. The Bhagavad-Gita says that none who are embodied can escape it Shining Ones, human beings, animals, vegetables,
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