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The Eleventh Lesson: The Law of Karma.885
In this way the understood and mastered Desire bears no Karmic fruit of
future action.
The Yogis teach that there are two great principles at work in the matter
of Karmic Law affecting the conditions of rebirth. The first principle is
that whereby the prevailing desires, aspirations, likes, and dislikes, loves
and hates, attractions and repulsions, etc., press the soul into conditions
in which these characteristics may have a favorable and congenial soil for
development. The second principle is that which may be spoken of as the
urge of the unfolding Spirit, which is always urging forward toward fuller
expression, and the breaking down of confining sheaths, and which thus
exerts a pressure upon the soul awaiting reincarnation which causes it to
seek higher environments and conditions than its desires and aspiration,
as well as its general characteristics, would demand. These two apparently
conflicting (and yet actually harmonious) principles acting and reacting
upon each other, determine the conditions of rebirth, and have a very
material effect upon the Karmic Law. One’s life is largely a conflict between
these two forces, the one tending to hold the soul to the present conditions
resulting from past lives, and the other ever at work seeking to uplift and
elevate it to greater heights.
The desires and characteristics brought over from the past lives, of
course, seek fuller expression and manifestation upon the lines of the past
lives. These tendencies simply wish to be let alone and to grow according
to their own laws of development and manifestation. But the unfolding
Spirit, knowing that the soul’s best interests are along the lines of spiritual
unfoldment and growth, brings a steady pressure to bear, life after life, upon
the soul, causing it to gradually kill out the lower desires and characteristics,
and to develop qualities which tend to lead it upward instead of allowing
it to remain on its present level, there to bring to blossom and fruit many
low thoughts and desires. Absolute Justice reigns over the operations of the
Law of Karma, but back of that and superior even to its might is found the
Infinite Love of the absolute which tends to Redeem the race. It is that love