Study in Karma

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

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A STUDY IN KARMA
laws, so may we move in the mental and moral universes with security also, as we learn their laws. The majority of people, with regard to their mental and moral defects, are much in the position of a man who should decline to walk upstairs because of the law of gravitation. They sit down helplessly, and say: “That is my nature. I cannot help it." True, it is the man's nature, as he has made it in the past, and it is “his karma”. But by a knowledge of karma he can change his nature, making it other to-morrow than it is today. He is not in the grip of an inevitable destiny, imposed upon him from outside; he is in a world of law, full of natural forces which he can utilise to bring about the state of things which he desires. Knowledge and will --that is what he needs. He must realise that karma is not a power which crushes, but a statement of cơnditions out of which invariable results accrue.