“Mr Kingsland: Karma is, so to speak, the absolute equilibrium; and however we act we disturb that equilibrium one way or another, and Karma adjusts.
Mr. B. Keightley: The analogy that dwells in my mind is this – it almost presents itself to me under this form: If we conceive ourselves as being absolutely surrounded and penetrating everything in fluid of such a nature that every action we make in that fluid produces a series of vibrations which eventually react upon ourselves; if you imagine a body suspended in a perfect fluid, no movement is possible without disturbing the fluid.
That sort of pressure is pressing in upon you from all sides, that substance – if you like to call it that – is Karma, or rather, Karma describes the relation of that subject.
Mme. Blavatsky: There is simply one way of getting outside the influence of Karma; it is the yogis who do it only; it is by merging oneself more and more in the Laya state. That is to say, that you are just like in a vessel out of which air has been pumped – a perfect vacuum. In that vacuum, of course, you cannot go either left or right or any way; there is no point of attraction, and there you are. You understand the analogy?
Mrs. Besant: Then it would always be the striving after equilibrium?
Mme. Blavatsky: Certainly! Every action produces a Karmic effect on the spiritual plane, on the psychic, on the spiritual, and everything, and the only thing is to be in this neutral point where there is no differentiation, where there is no action.
Mr. Old: Then We understand Karma to be the law of equilibrium?
Mme. Blavatsky: It is perfect harmony and equilibrium.
Mr. B. Keightley: I think you want to add to it one thing. People get an idea very often that Karma only applies to bad actions. Karma is simply the action, the law of the consequence of action of all kinds, whether good or bad, and it is, entirely apart from that, the inevitable sequence of cause and effect. It will fall upon you whether the action is good or bad.
Mr. Sneyd: But would not you say that all that arose – every evil consequence which decreased happiness – arose from ignorance on the part of the conscious being that did the action? However learned a person may be, supposing he does an action which results in the decrease of his happiness, should not you say that action was caused by his ignorance in some respect?
Mme. Blavatsky: But ignorance won’t save you from the effects of Karma.”
H. P. Blavatsky
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