the key to theosophy…

“Mr. B. Keightley:  Would you say you have found amongst the Buddhists, people who would say they were perfectly happy?

 
Mme. Blavatsky:  Perfectly, they die with as great serenity as they get up in the morning.

 
Mr. B. Keightley:  But are they happy?

 
Mme. Blavatsky:  I never saw happier people than in Ceylon where they don’t believe in god or soul. They believe in incarnation simply. They don’t think anything of the previous man passes into this. They are perfectly incapable of talking metaphysics; and, yet, see the effect it produces upon them.

 
Every man is taught that whatever he does he will be either punished or rewarded for. Whatever the cause he produces, it will have he same effects; therefore, he knows if he does something bad, he will have bad results; if he does anything good, then good results will ensue from it, whether it is in this life or another.

 
Now, look here! You just ask every one of yourselves – you have all been little boys – it is not a thing, that when you know you have deserved something, that you don’t murmur as you would otherwise? You don’t feel this terrible feeling of injustice. Don’t you know that, every one of you?

 
Mr. B. Keightley:  That is absolutely and entirely true.

 
Mme. Blavatsky:  You may swear at it and be angry, but you will say I have done it. This is the only thing that can lead people to happiness. I don’t know what you are driving at now.”

 
H. P. Blavatsky