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A Series of Lessons in Gnani Yoga882
much of this occult instruction imparted is but a “re-learning” of something
previously known, although many of the things taught have never been
heard before in this life. You pick up a book and read something, and know
at once that it is so, because in some vague way you have a consciousness
of having studied and worked out the problem in some past period of
your lives. All this is the working of the Law of Karma, which caused you to
attract that for which you have an affinity, and which also causes others to
be attracted to you.
Many are the reunions of people who have been related to each other
in previous lives. The old loves, and old hates work out their Karmic results
in our lives. We are bound to those whom we have loved, and also to
those whom we may have injured. The story must be worked out to the
end, although a knowledge of the Law undoubtedly relieves one of many
entangling attachments and Karmic relationships, by pointing out the nature
of the relation, and enabling one to free himself mentally from the bond,
which process tends to dissolve much of the Karmic entanglements.
Life is a great school for the learning of lessons. It has many grades, many
classes, many scales of progress. And the lessons must be learned whether
we will or no. If we refuse or neglect to learn the lesson we are sent back
to accomplish the task, again and again, until the lesson is finally learned.
Nothing once learned is ever forgotten entirely. There is an indelible imprint
of the lesson in our character, which manifests as predispositions, tastes,
inclinations, etc. All that goes to make up that which we call “Character” is
the workings of the Law of Karma. There is no such thing as Chance. Nothing
ever “happens.” All is regulated by the Law of Cause and Effect or Karma. As
a man sows so shall he reap, in a literal sense. You are what you are to-day,
by reason of what you were in your last life. And in your next life you will
be what you are making of yourself to-day. You are your own judge, and
executioner—your own bestower of rewards. But the Love of the Absolute
is ever working to lead you upward to the Light, and to open your soul
to that knowledge that, in the words of the Yogis, “burns up Karma,” and