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ISBN-10: 1406727083
ISBN-13: 9781406727081
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Karma and Rebirth by CHRISTMAS HUMPHREYS John Murray, Albemarle Street, W. London First Edition, . . February 1943 Reprinted .... February 1944 Reprinted .... March 1948 Made and PnntcJ in Great Britain by Butler Tanner Ltd., Frome and London CONTENTS PAGE INTRODUCTION 7 I THE LAW OP KARMA n II KARMA IN ACTION ........ 21 III WHAT KARMA is NOT 33 IV WHAT KARMA EXPLAINS 39 V SOME DIFFICULTIES CONSIDERED 46 VI REBIRTH 52 VII WHO BELIEVES IN KARMA AND REBIRTH ... 62 VIII KARMA AND REBIRTH APPLIED 67 IX THE ENDING OF KARMA AND REBIRTH .... 76 EDITORIAL NOTE, T r object of the editor of this series is a very definite one. He desires above all things that in their humble way, these books shall be… the ambassadors of good-will and understanding between East and West, the old world, of Thought, and the new of Action. He is confident that a deeper knowledge of the great ideals and lofty philosophy of Oriental thought may help to a revival of that true spirit of Charity which neither despises nor fears the nations of another creed and colour. J. L. CRANMER-BYNG. 50, ALBEMARLE STREET, LONDON, W. i INTRODUCTION THERE are many books on the twin doctrines of Karma and Rebirth, but the tendency of each new publication is to present the subject as more and more mechanical, until so nearly does this timeless, universal Law approximate to a soulless Fate that what is in fact a reign of law becomes a reign of terror, and compassion, described in The Voice of the Silence as the Law of Laws, eternal Harmony, is utterly ignored. The cause of this degradation is probably twofold first, the general tendency of Western thought to materialize whatever spiritual principles swim into its ken, and secondly, theincreasing departure from the available sources of our knowledge of the doctrine, with the corresponding reliance of each writer on previous text books and his own ideas. In the result, most Western writers on the subject confine themselves to the lower knowledge described by the Vedanta philosophers, which is sufficient for those too lazy to awaken in themselves the higher centres from which alone the higher knowledge may be seen. But though the law of Karma must, on its own plane, remain to us unknowable, a thoughtful study of the sources from which our knowledge is derived will give the genuine student a vision of essential principles which, if not yet of the higher knowledge reserved for the few, may serve to awaken the higher centres through which, as windows on to the Absolute, the Truth may finally be known. The present volume is therefore a humble attempt to recon sider the subject in the light of such authorities as are available and from a more spiritual and therefore less mechanical point of view. The doctrine is too old and too widely held to be regarded as the property of any one religion, but the Scriptures of the Hindus and Buddhists provide the oldest available sources, 7 INTRODUCTION When to these arc added, by way of commentary, the writings of H. P. Blavatsky, who was herself trained in Tibetan monas teries, there is available a triple authority which, taken as a whole, provides the basis for an all-embracing Law which guides and governs the evolution of mankind. Yet the ultimate authority for any doctrine is not in the written nor in the spoken word, but rather in its own sweet reasonableness, and in the fact that it is ratified by the intuition and seems to work outin the days experience. Neither God nor man may prove to another that a principle is true. As the Buddha said to the Kalamas Do not go by hearsay, nor by what is handed down by others, nor by what people say, nor by what is stated on the authority of your traditional teachings . . . But Kalamas, when you know of yourselves These teachings are good these teachings, when followed out and put into practice conduce to the ending of suffering, to peace of mind, to Nirvana then accept them...