ELEMENTARY LESSONS ON KARMA

FEW questions, perhaps, puzzle students more, whether the students be old or young, than that of Karma. What is it? When did it begin? How far does it limit us? Are we its servants or its masters? Must we fold our hands meekly before it, or struggle vigorously against it? if today grows out of yesterday, and yesterday out of the day before, and so on, backwards and backwards, how can the bad man ever become good ? Are we not really compelled by an iron necessity, are we not "dumb, driven cattle," who cannot become heroes, whatever poets may say ?