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Are the Masters currently engaged in any type of action? Have they performed any actions since they reached the stage of inner evolution and initiation that resulted in them becoming a Master, Mahatma, or Adept? If so – and it obviously is so – then they must have Karma, since in Sanskrit this word literally means “action” and also implies the inevitable corresponding re-action to the action.
Everyone who is alive and conscious is continually setting causes in motion every moment, of some form or another, even in the form of every thought we think, and for every cause set in motion there has to be the corresponding correlative effect coming back “in due season” to the cause-maker. If this was to ever not happen, the whole Universe would simply cease to be, since its continuity and ongoing manifested existence is dependent upon this incessant law of balance and equilibrium.
An innate sense of oversentimental religious devotion causes many individuals to elevate the Masters to the level of infallible and all-powerful gods on Earth and to thus imply that they are completely free from all Karma, past, present, and future. But the Masters themselves have made it quite clear that this is not the case.
A reading of passages from the Masters’ own letters shows, in their own words and specific statements, that they are just as much under the sway of the Law of Karma as you or I, the only real difference being that they know and understand Karmic Law far better than we do and are able to live in such a way as to avoid creating unnecessary or unwise Karma for themselves and others.
The Bhagavad Gita famously declares that “all beings up to Brahmā” are under the sway of Karma. Wherever there is action there is Karma and the Universe is one vast body of incessant, all-pervading action and activity.
In “The Secret Doctrine Dialogues” Madame Blavatsky says, “Let us not forget that there is a limit to the freedom of action of every differentiated being in the whole universe. Karma, being the absolute adjusting law, whether in heaven or on earth, says to the proud waves: “So far shalt thou go and no farther.” If it says this to the waves, it says it to the angels, and anything you like. It is Karma, and they cannot go against Karma. It is the whole thing.”