The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1945-03-17
KARMAN
NationaI and Racial Karman

The of justice deeply rooted the human mind
-actions based upon justice There nothing Chd
Man Race so keenly resents. nothing that
itters feeling that he has been unjusty treated
eople will accept misfortune, at least without bitterness
hey know they deserve them There is in western lands
ondnce the justice of things How could there be- after
entures of false teachings revenge
down the until few can be found who not the
tangIe,
Nothing philosophy of life can possibly make
face the facts There must be broader outlook
the one theory offers chance must be given to har-
justice frequent sight of the good punished
and the bad rewarded before Men their
of bitterness suspicion Theosophy alone
restore order to the human mind and thus the
beautiful harmony which Nature working towards
and save us from ourselves lit is eparticuarly in
Christian lands that the perception of Justice in the universe
has been completely lost sight Of In Buddhism, in
Iaoism ZorOasranism the teaching of Karman has not
been lost though the countries under these religions
with us
The choosing of environment begins with the individual
the reincanang Ego returning to earth brings its char
acter with it, thus having well defined tendencies they
Of necessity drawn to those parents who give them
body most akin to their characteristics this teaching casts
entirely light heredity, accord with
senta1 justice thus the individual chooses his family
SO does the family choose its nation and in other words
IL Is reborn where by It's nhren nature 1T belongs There
fore individuals involved in National Karman because
they have helped to make it.
With reincarnatiOn the doctrine Of Karma explains the
misery and suffering of the world and left to
accuse Nature OF injustice the misery of Nation Race
is the direct result OF the thoughts and acts of the EgOs who
make up that nation In the dim past, they
mted the acts for which they suffer- they violated the
laws OF harmony and the immuabe rule is that harmony
must be restored the EgOS suffer in making compensation
Carnatng in the nation until they have worked
to the end the setup Though the nation for time
may disappear physical thing the EgOS that made do
not leave the world but out the of
nation in which they must go with the task
their reward good bad, in accord with their Karman
"Of this law the old Egyptians illustration, they
to high point of development certainly they
exnguished nation but the sOu the old EgOs live
and now fulfilling their self destiny
other nation in period They be the American
nation the jews, ated to wander up and down in the
world and suffer much at the hands of others This
Is perfectly justTake for instance the u S. and the Red
Indians the latter have been shamefuy treated by the
nation The teaching is that the Indian EgO will be reborn
in the and cOnquerng people, and members of that
great family they will be the themselves of bringing
the due results for such acts done against them
when they had Red Bodies Thus has happened before
it viii about again William O. Judge Ocean Of Theo-
sophy'
Resist not evil and render good for evil Buddhist
cepts and first preached in view of the applicability of
Karmic Law"
"Such is the law which to righteousness,
Which at last turn aside stray;
The heart of it is love, the end of it
Is peace and contamination sweet Obey"
SIR EDWIN ARNOLD
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