making of the universe: three kinds of karma

2/07/18

“Part only, therefore, of his total karma can be worked out in a given life, and this part is selected by the great Lords of Karma – of whom something will presently be said – and the soul is guided to incarnate in a family, a nation, a place, a body, suitable for the exhaustion of that aggregate of causes which can be worked out together.

This aggregate of causes fixes the length of that particular life; gives to the body its characteristics, its powers, and its limitations; brings into contact with the man the souls incarnated within that life-period to whom he has contracted obligations, surrounding him with relatives, friends, and enemies;

marks out the social conditions into which he is born, with their accompanying advantages and disadvantages; selects the mental energies he can show forth by molding the organization of the brain and nervous system with which he has to work;

puts together the causes that result in troubles and joys in his outer career and that can be brought into a single life.

All this is the “ripe karma”, and this can be sketched out in a horoscope cast by a competent astrologer.

In all this, the man has no power of choice; all is fixed by the choices he has made in the past, and he must discharge to the uttermost farthing the liabilities he has contracted.”

 

Annie Besant