making of the universe: breaking old chains

2/15/18

“Again, he may be hampered by liabilities contracted to other souls in the past, wrongs he has done to them, duties he owes to them.

By the use of his knowledge he can find those souls, whether in this world or in either of the other two, and seek opportunities of serving them.

There may be a soul incarnated during his own life-period to whom he owes some karmic debt; he may seek out that soul and pay his debt, thus setting himself free from a tie which, left to the course of events, would have necessitated his own reincarnation, or would have hampered him in a future life.

Strange and puzzling lines of actions adopted by occultists have sometimes this explanation – the man of knowledge enters into close relations with some person who is considered by the ignorant bystanders and critics to be quite outside the companionships that are fitting for him;

but that occultist is quietly working out a karmic obligation which would otherwise hamper and retard his progress.

Those who do not possess knowledge enough to review their past lives may yet exhaust many causes that they have set going in the present life;

they can carefully go over all that they can remember, and note where they have wronged any or where any has wronged them, exhausting the first cases by pouring out thoughts of love and service, and performing acts of service to the injured person, where possible on the physical plane also;

and in the second cases sending forth thoughts of pardon and good-will.

Thus they diminish their karmic liabilities and bring nearer the day of liberation.”

 

Annie Besant