OUR LIVING CHANGES THE HUMAN KARMA

OUR LIVING
CHANGES THE HUMAN KARMA
..... Each of us either adds to or diminishes
the sum total of human happiness and human
misery, “not only of the present, but of every
subsequent age of humanity”, as shown so
ably by Elihu Burritt, who says:
“There is no sequestered spot in the Universe,
no dark niche along the disc of non-existence,
from which he (man) can retreat from his
relations to others, where he can withdraw the
influence of his existence upon the moral
destiny of the world; everywhere his presence
or absence will be felt - everywhere he will
have companions who will be better or worse
for his influence. It is an old saying, and one
of fearful and fathoming import, that we are
forming characters for eternity. Forming
characters! Whose? Our own or others’? Both -
and in that momentous fact lies the peril and
responsibility of our existence. Who is
sufficient for the thought? Thousands of my
fellow-beings will yearly enter eternity [1] with
characters differing from those they would
have carried thither had I never lived. The
sunlight of that world will reveal my finger-
marks in their primary formations, and in their
successive strata of thought and life.”
These are the words of a profound thinker.
And if the simple fact of our living changes
the sum of human weal and woe - in a way for
which we are, owing to our ignorance, entirely
irresponsible - what must be the Karmic
decree in the matter of influencing hundreds of
people by an act perpetrated and carried on
for years in premeditation and the full
consciousness of what we are doing! (...)
NOTE:
[1] (Note by H.P. Blavatsky:) Devachan,
rather; the entr’acte between two incarnations.