Theos-Talk Archives (July 2003 Message tt00295)

Hi all,

Well, it seems that only Dallas sort of agrees with my understanding 
of karma, though he does not go into it very deeply, preferring to 
give a moral lesson instead.

For me karma is simply the law that any action (on whatever plane, 
whether physical, emotional, astral, mental or even I suppose higher) 
has consequences on the universe and that those consequences will 
come back to the person who originated them. 
This is why the mahatmas could not ORDER Leadbeater to go to India, 
as then the beneficial karma would go on their account instead of his 
own. 
Karma is for me also the fact that what we put our energy in, will be 
the direction of our growth and change (of the personality - or even 
of the dissolution of the personality). So that if I am fascinated 
with numbers and mathematics, even if I am not very good at it, but I 
keep observing, explaining people what I do understand, reading, 
studying, practicing - then all that effort and energy will lead to 
my 'gaining' a brain in a next life which is very good at 
mathematics. 

That is just the general gist of it, as I see it. Now for the 
question of whether HPB's karma could be interfered with - that is a 
different issue. First we would have to understand what it means to 
interfere with somebody's karma. One way of putting it is that one 
interfere's with somebody's karma if one forces them to start 
believing in something they did not already believe in (through 
hypnosis for instance), thereby causing a completely different set of 
actions than that person would have otherwise done. This means in 
effect that the skanda's of that person have been (without 
permission) interfered with. 

In the case of HPB her will wasn't tampered with. She was given the 
choice to go on as she had been and then when she said: yes I want to 
go on, they invested energy in her in order for her to make it 
possible to go on with the work she had taken on. It was a karmic 
investment so to speak, done for the wellfare of humanity. Still, I 
don't think they interfered with her karma, and they certainly did 
not go beyond it (which I think is impossible. Any action has 
consequences, and eventually will come back to the actor; this must 
even be true for the sort of karmic interference I mention above).

Katinka