making of the universe: breaking old chains

2/15/18

“Let us suppose that a person, thus looking backward over his past lives, sees certain causes which will bring about an event which is still in the future;

let us suppose further that these causes are thoughts of hatred for an injury inflicted on himself, and that they will cause suffering a year hence to the wrong-doer;

such a person can introduce a new cause to intermingle with the causes working from the past, and he may counteract them with strong thoughts of love and good-will that will exhaust them, and will thus prevent their bringing about the otherwise inevitable event, which would, in its turn, have generated new karmic trouble.

Thus he may neutralize forces coming out of the past by sending against them forces equal and opposite, and may in this way “burn up his karma by knowledge.”

In similar fashion he may bring to an end karma generated in his present life that would normally work out in future lives.”

 

Annie Besant