{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 53/1904-12-15/p014","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Regarding karma, the great law of just compensation, perception and understanding of it can be gained if one lives one's life as if karma was a fact. If a disaster or a sorrow befall you, try keeping in mind the thought that this sorrow or accident has not occurred by some miraculous chance but that there must be a cause, a reason for it. You need not probe for the cause. Only he who clairvoyantly can command a view of karma would be able to actually perceive the cause of a joyful event, a sorrow or some mishap. You do need a mood, a certain feeling to which you can surrender yourself so that you can sense how a given sorrow or joy must have a cause and, in turn, can cause future events. He who permeates himself with this mood and looks at his life and all that happens to him as if karma was a fact, will find that his existence becomes increasingly comprehensible to him. He who suppresses his anger when something annoying happens to him and thinks instead that just as a stone rolls if pushed so the annoying matter must have come about due to some inevitable set of laws of the universe, attains to comprehension of karma. As certain as it is that you will wake up tomorrow morning, provided circumstances and your health remain unchanged, so it is equally certain that you will comprehend the laws of karma if you view life in this manner.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"The Inner Development of Man","site_heading":null,"date":"1904-12-15","location":null,"word_count":252,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/53/1904-12-15/p014","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Maria St. Goar","identified_edition":"Singles","book_title":"The Origin and Goal of the Human Being","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA053/English/Singles/19041215p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["English"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"de","edition":"original","edition_basis":null,"is_original":true,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/53/1904-12-15/p014"},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/53/1904-12-15/p014","paragraph_aligned":true}],"record":{"record_type":"unknown","scope":"volume","note":"How this text was taken down (shorthand transcript, listeners' notes or manuscript) is not on record here. 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Darüber eignen wir uns die Erkenntnis, das Verständnis an, wenn wir so leben, als wenn Karma eine Wahrheit wäre, Wenn Sie getroffen werden von irgendeinem Unfall, von einem Schmerz oder dergleichen, dann versuchen Sie einmal, immer und immer wieder den Gedanken zu hegen: Dieser Schmerz, dieser Unfall steht nicht wie ein Wunder in der Welt da, sondern muß eine Ursache haben. — Sie brauchen nicht über die Ursache nachzuforschen. Erst derjenige, welcher Karma überschauen kann, wird die Ursache eines Glücksfalles, eines Schmerzes und so weiter wirklich sehen können. Aber ein bloßes Gefühl brauchen Sie, müssen Sie haben, um sich ihm hinzugeben und zu fühlen, daß eine solche Handlung, ein solcher Schmerz oder eine solche Freude eine Ursache haben muß, und daß sie Ursache sein muß von zukünftigen Ereignissen. Wer sich durchdringt mit dieser Empfindung und sein Leben und das, was von außen auf ihn hereinstürmt, so betrachtet, als ob Karma eine Wahrheit wäre, der wird sehen, daß es für ihn verständlich wird. Wer sich nicht ärgert, wenn ihm etwas zustößt, sondern imstande ist, dem Ärger Einhalt zu gebieten und sich denkt, daß ebenso wie ein Stein ins Rollen kommt, wenn er gestoßen wird, dasjenige, was ihn geärgert hat, eine notwendige Ursache haben muß und sich ablöst nach einer notwendigen Gesetzmäßigkeit in der Welt, der gelangt zur Erkenntnis von Karma. So sicher, wie Sie, wenn alle Verhältnisse bleiben wie sie sind, und Sie selbst gesund bleiben, morgen früh aufwachen werden, ebenso sicher kommen Sie zum Verständnis von Karma, wenn Sie in diesem Sinne das Leben betrachten.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":266,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/53/1904-12-15/p014"}],"english":["GA 53/1904-12-15/p014"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":266,"en_words":252,"ratio":0.95,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.04,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5781,"original_word_count":5584,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Maria St. Goar","identified_edition":"Singles","book_title":"The Origin and Goal of the Human Being","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA053/English/Singles/19041215p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 53/1904-12-15/p014"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"medium","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. 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