The Master on Racial Karma

Question on page 319 in “Spiritual Gems” it is stated: “There is no racial karma.” We have been taught there is both racial and national karma. Will you please explain this?

The Master karma, besides being individual vis-à-vis the society of which he is a member, may as well be racial or national and in this sense may be called collective karma. Races like individuals, have their own pride and prejudices: pride of color, as the whites generally have against what they call colored people, and this prejudice of their manifest in diverse ways: by raising all kinds of color bar for denial of civic and social rights, political privileges and legal remedies, all of which in course of time redound upon the perpetrators of social indignities and inequalities causing unrest leading, at times to bloody racial wars. Again, some races boas of superiority of blood in their veins and on that score think that form a privileged class by themselves favored by God to rule over and exploit others; but, as is usual in such cases, they are sooner or later overtaken by Nemesis – for they that rule by the sword very often perish by the sword.

In like manner, some nations when swayed by national interest get embroiled in unfair trade competitions, build high tariff walls against other nations and at times even try to boost the sale of their unwanted products on the point of gun with the natural result of reprisals, embargoes and other retaliatory measure from those who suffer from their discriminatory acts and deeds.

Next come that are generally termed, and commonly believed to be, natural calamities, like floods, famines, earth quakes and epidemics, etc. These too, like all other ills, are the result, more or less, or man’s ignorance of the law of Nature, his incapacity to foresee things and forestall measures necessary to eliminate the threatened disaster. With the progressive advancement in scientific knowledge and technical skill, man is gradually coming to his own, pressing the forces of Nature more and more to the service of his kind, and making the most of the energies lying hidden and untapped. This is how the law of Karma works silently and unnoticed but inexorably to the good or ills as the case may be. In this connection please refer to the book The wheel of life.

From spiritual elixir, pages 40 –42