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The Eleventh Lesson: The Law of Karma.887
Causation are as much a phase of Karma as is the highest phases manifest
on the higher planes of life, far beyond our own. And through it all is ever
the urge toward perfection—the upward movement of all life. The Yogi
teachings regard the Universe as a mighty whole, and the Law of Karma as
the one great law operating and manifesting through that whole.
How different is the workings of this mighty Law from the many ideas
advanced by man to account for the happenings of life. Mere Chance is no
explanation, for the careful thinker must inevitably come to the conclusion
that in an Universe governed by law, there can be no room for Chance. And
to suppose that all rewards and punishments are bestowed by a personal
deity, in answer to prayers, supplications, good behavior, offerings, etc., is
to fall back into the childhood stage of the race thought. The Yogis teach
that the sorrow, suffering and affliction witnessed on all sides of us, as well
as the joy, happiness and blessings also in evidence, are not caused by the
will or whim of some capricious deity to reward his friends and punish
his enemies—but by the working of an invariable Law which metes out to
each his measure of good and ill according to his Karmic attachments and
relationships.
Those who are suffering, and who see no cause for their pain, are apt to
complain and rebel when they see others of no apparent merit enjoying the
good things of life which have been denied their apparently more worthy
brethren. The churches have no answer except “It is God’s will,” and that “the
Divine motive must not be questioned.” These answers seem like mockery,
particularly when the idea of Divine Justice is associated with the teaching.
There is no other answer compatible with Divine Justice other than the Law
of Karma, which makes each person responsible for his or her happiness or
misery. And there is nothing so stimulating to one as to know that he has
within himself the means to create for himself newer and better conditions
of life and environment. We are what we are to-day by reason of what we
were in our yesterdays. We will be in our tomorrows that which we have
started into operation to-day. As we sow in this life, so shall we reap in the