Study in Karma

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

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causes which result in goodness; as though a chemist should say: “Oh! how I wish I had water," without making the conditions which would produce it.
Again, we must remember that each force works along its own particular line, and that when a number of forces impinge on•a particular point, the resultant force is the outcome of all of them. As in our school days we learned how to construct a parallelogram of forces and thus find the resultant of their composition ; so with karma may we learn to understand the conflict of forces and their composition to yield a single resultant. We hear people asking why a good man fails in business while a bad man succeeds. Buť there is no causal connection between goodness and money-getting. We might as well say: "I am a very good man; why cannot I fly in the air?” Goodness is not a cause of flying, nor