KARMA
A Study in
Karma
by
Annie Besant
Published in
1917
Family Karma
Let us
consider the collective karma of a family. The family has a thought-atmosphere
of its own, into the colouring of which enter family traditions and customs,
family ways of regarding the external world, family pride in the past, a strong
sense of family honour. All the thought-forms of a member of the family will be
influenced by these conditions, built up perhaps through hundreds of years, and
shaping, moulding, colouring, all the thoughts, desires and activities of the
individual newly born into it.
Tendencies in
him that conflict with family traditions will be suppressed, all unconsciously
to him; the things "a fellow cannot do" will have for him no
attraction; he will be lifted above various temptations, and the seeds of evil which
such
temptations
might have vivified in him will quietly atrophy away.
The
collective karma of the family will provide him with opportunities for
distinction, open out avenues of usefulness, bring him advantages in the
struggle for life, and ensure his
success. How
has he come into conditions so favourable? It may be by a personal tie with
some one already there, a service rendered in a previous life, a bond of
affection, an unexhausted relationship. This avails to draw him into the
circle, and he then profits by the various karmic results which belong to the
family in
virtue of its collective past, of the courage, ability, usefulness of some of
its members, that have left an inheritance of social consideration as a family
heirloom.
Where the family
karma is bad the individual born into it suffers, as in the former case he
profits, and the collective karma hinders, as in the former instance it
promoted, his welfare.
In both cases
the individual will usually have built up in himself
characteristics
which demand for their full exercise the
environment
provided by the family. But a very strong personal tie, or unusual service,
might, without this, draw a man into a family wherein was his beneficiary, and
so give him an
opportunity
which, generally, he has not deserved, but had won by this special act of his
past.
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