Theosophy in India May 1906

Professor Unwala also referred to the analogy which is no doubt familiar to all of us that of the parallelogram of forces " in which the one side of the parallelogram represents the original force that is the Pr&rabdha Karma and the other side the new force which we bring to bear on it that is the will ; while the diagonal represents the actual effect of the past Karma as it works out in oar [...] He remarked that a question had once been asked of him as to what the angle between the two sides represented and he suggesed that it might represent the effect on the working out of Karma of the geographical conditions of the country in which a man is born of the time of the national customs of his family associations and so on. [...] The.quality of the grain which we put in at the top of the basket is to a large extent dependent on the quality of the grain already in the basket especially of that which we are just now drawing out at the bottom ; the second side of our parallelogram is to some extent dependent on the first side both as to its direction and as to its length. [...] We have seen that the purpose of the universe is the union of Purusha and Prakrti; the Supreme gives to each the conception of the within and the without by which each comes to know the other outside itself ;"110 THEOSOPHY IN INDIA [May 1906. [...] The second condition is the ceasing to desire objects The first pre-"May 1906.] THE CONDITIONS OF KARMA-YOGA 111 paration for the union of Purusha with Prakrti is by appropriation ; there is no other way this is theriecree of the Supreme with regard to the earlier stages ; the force of attraction working.in us impels us to appropriation it is a passion a desire; this is the first step towards