Study in Karma

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

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A STUDY IN KARMA
does it bring in money. Tennyson touched on a great law when, in his poem on 'Wages,' he declared that the wages of virtue were not ‘dust,' nor rest, nor pleasure, but the glory of an active immortality. .“ Virtue is its own reward” in the fullest sense of the words. If we are truthful, our reward is that our nature becomes more truthful, and so sequentially with every virtue. Karmic results can only be of the nature of their causes; they are not arbitrary, like human rewards.
UNDERSTAND THE TRUTH
This seems to be obvious: whence then arises the general instinct that success in life should accompany goodness? We can successfully combat an error only when we understand the truth which lies at the heart of it, gives it its vitality-and leads' to its spread and its persistence. The truth