Book Title: Study in Karma Author(s): Annie Besant Publisher: Theosophist Office AdyarPage 56
________________ MAN AND HIS SURROUNDINGS 45 enemy was given into his hands, he prayed the King to enrich his foe; asked for the reason of his strange behaviour, he grimly said that wealth and worldly prosperity would give him greater opportunities for wrong-doing, and would thus entail on him' bitter suffering in the life after death. Often the worst enemy of virtue is in easy material corrditions, and these, which are spoken of as good karma, are often the reverse in their results. Many who do fairly well in adversity go astray in prosperity, and become intoxicated with worldly delights. Let us now consider how a man affects his surroundings, or, in scientific phrase, how the organism acts on its. environment. Man affects his surroundings in innumerable ways, which may all be classified into three modes of selfexpression he affects them by Will, by Thought, by Action.Page Navigation
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