KARMA
A Study in Karma
by
Annie Besant
Published in 1917
The
Third Thread
We have now to consider how karma works in relation to
activity, the third aspect of the Self. Our activities – the ways in which we
affect the outer world of matter – spin the third thread of our karma, and in
many respects this is the
least important. Our thoughts and our desires so soon
as they flow outwards, by producing vibrations in the mental and astral matter
surrounding us, or by creating specific thought-forms and desire-forms, become
activities, are our action on the outer worlds of life and form, of consciousness
and bodies.
The moment they speed outwards they affect other
things and other people, they are the action, or the reaction as the case may
be, of the organism on the environment. The reaction of our thoughts on
ourselves, as we have seen, is the building of character and of faculty; the
reaction of our desires on ourselves
is the gaining of opportunities and objects and of
power; the reaction of our activities on ourselves is our environment, the
conditions and circumstances, the friends and enemies, that surround us. The
nearest circumstance, the expression of part of our past activities, is our
physical body; this is shaped for us by an elemental specially created for the
task; our body is nature’s
answer to such part of the sum of our past activities
as can be expressed in a single material form, and "nature" is here
the Lords of Karma, the mighty Angels of Judgment, the Recorders of the Past.
Two parts of karma we bring with us – our thought-nature and our desire-nature,
the germinal tendencies we have
created in our age-long past; the third part of karma
we are born into; that which limits our Self-expression and constrains us; our
past action on the external world reacts upon us as the sum of our limitations
– our environment, including our physical body.
It is probable that a close study of past activities
and present environment would result in a knowledge of details that at present
we do not possess. We read in Buddhist and Hindu Scriptures a mass of details
on this subject, probably drawn from meticulous careful observation. At
present, we modern
students can only affirm a few broad facts. Extreme
cruelty inflicted on the helpless – on heretics, on children, on animals –
reacts on inquisitors, on brutal parents and teachers, on vivisectors, as
physical deformity, more or less revolting and extreme, according to the nature
and extent of the cruelty.
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