KARMA
A Study in Karma
by
Annie Besant
Published in 1917
India’s
Karma
There was an article published in East and West – Mr.
Malabari’s paper – some time ago on the national karma of
national karma of India was that it should be
conquered – obviously true, else the conquest of India would not have taken
place – and that it should therefore accept its lot of service, and not try to
change any of the existing conditions – as obviously wrong. The knower of karma
would say: The Indians were not the original possessors of this country; they
came down from Central Asia, conquering the land, subduing its then peoples,
and reducing them to servitude; during thousands of years they conquered and
ruled, and they generated a national karma.
They trod down the conquered tribes, and made them
slaves,
oppressing them and taking advantage of them. The bad
karma thus made brought down upon them in turn many invaders. Greeks, Mughals,
Portuguese, Dutch, French, English – they all came, and fought, and conquered,
and possessed. Still the lesson of karma has not been learned, though the
millions of the
untouchables are a standing proof of the wrongs
inflicted upon them.
Now the Indians ask for a share in the government of
their own country, and they are hampered by this bad national karma. Let them,
then, while asking for the growth of freedom for themselves, atone to these
untouchables by giving them social
freedom and lifting them in the social scale. A
national effort must remove this national evil, and do away with a continuing
cause of national weakness.
India must redeem the wrong she has done, and cleanse
her hands from oppression; so shall she change her national karma, and build
the foundation of freedom. Karma will work for freedom and not against it, when
the karma generated by oppression is changed into the karma made by uplifting
and respecting. Public feeling can be changed, and every man who speaks
graciously and kindly to an inferior is helping to change it. Meanwhile all
whose own individual karma has brought them
into the nation should recognise facts as they are,
but should set to work to change those that are undesirable. National karma may
be changed, like individual karma, but as the causes are of longer continuance,
so must be the effects, and the new causes introduced can only slowly modify
the results outgrowing from the past.
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