Study in Karma

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

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A STUDY IN KARMA
patience, a sweet enduring content, tell that the evil lies behind, that victory has been gained, though the wounds. sustained in the conflict smart and sting. So may a soldier, sorely maimed in a fierce battle, remain mutilated for the rest of his physical life, and yet not regret with any keenness the anguish and the loss which mark that he has gloriously discharged his duty to his Flag. And these' warriors who have conquered in a greater battle need not lament too bitterly over the weakness or deformity of a body which tells of a strife which is past, but may wear patiently the badge of a struggle with an evil they have overcome, knowing that in another life no scar of that struggle shall remain.
OUR ENVIRONMENT
The nation and the family into which a man is born give him the field