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When
Karma Becomes Personal
Small
favours reap benefits from a General Fund
and there is a corresponding fund for the
inconsiderate.
Big
favours and serious harm are settled personally
Posted
24/2/07
In his
article Reincarnation,
C
Man’s
every action ends not with himself, but invariably
affects others around him. In some cases this effect may be comparatively
trivial, while in
others it may be of the most serious character. The
trivial results, whether good or bad are simply small debits or credits in our
account with Nature; but the greater effects, whether good or bad, make a
personal account which is to be settled with the individual concerned.”
Leadbeater goes on to explain that personal favours
are always worthwhile and doing harm will come back on you. Leadbeater
postulates that the big things generate a level of Karma which has to be
settled on a personal basis in the present or some future life. Theosophists
term this a Karmic Account and as mentioned in my Posting;-Why not
hold a Grudge?, if you fail to let things go then
you can be locked into a tit for tat war of attrition from life to life.
“A man who
gives a meal to a hungry beggar, or cheers him by a kindly word, will receive
the result of his good action as part of a kind of general fund of Nature’s
benefits; but one who by some good action changes the whole current of another
man’s life will assuredly have to meet that same man again in a future life, in
order that he who has been benefited may have the opportunity of repaying the
kindness that has been done to him.”
“One who
causes annoyance to another will suffer proportionately for it somewhere,
somehow, in the future, though he may never meet again the man whom he has
troubled; but one who does serious harm to another, one who wrecks his life or
retards his evolution, must certainly meet his victim again at some later point
in the course of their
lives, so that he may have the opportunity, by
kindly and self-sacrificing service, of counterbalancing the wrong which he has
done. In short, large debts must be paid personally, but small ones go into the
general fund.”
Reincarnation By C W Leadbeater
Theosophy
has some dire warnings for Grudge Bearers
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