The law of karma is an absolutely accurate and fair spiritual law which can be compared with the law of gravity in physical terms. The law cannot be escaped or avoided at all, although it doesn’t always create immediate return.
It is also called, (in Christianity) “You reap what you sow” and is expressed in the saying, “What goes around, comes around.” Human beings have mixed up the law of karma with God, but truthfully God is separate from the law of karma.
The law of karma takes every thought, word and action of a soul into account. If someone performs a good action, (let’s say ladling out soup in a soup kitchen), but their thoughts are different than their action, (they are doing it because they feel that they have to and they really don’t care very much about what they are doing), all of that is taken into account by the law of karma.
There is no escaping karmic return for action. Even those on the receiving end of the soup are receiving their own karmic return and they won’t feel that well after eating that soup. Another soul who receives their bowl of soup from one who is doing this as a labour of true love from the heart is also much more nourished by that soup and that is their good karma.
If this is the case then I do have to be totally content with everything that happens to me knowing that I created it through my own thoughts, words or actions, even if I don’t understand how at the moment. The return of your own karma is always for your own benefit.
It’s a lesson to be learned. You just have to figure out what the lesson is. If you do figure out the lesson and you transform your own thoughts, words and actions that created the situation, then you move up to the next class. Good for you!!
Now you won’t get that type of karmic return anymore or if something similar happens again it won’t feel like something bad. It won’t phase you anymore. There is always something else that will come as an obstacle, however obstacles only come to make you stronger. It’s all good.
If my own karmic return is always good for me then it only stands to reason that everyone else’s karmic return is also good for them. Each one is a soul, my brother soul, and each one creates their own karma. Karma can stretch over lifetimes.
This is why bad things often happen to good people. You have no idea what you or what anyone else has been up to in their past births. You can get an inkling about yourself through your meditation, but you don’t know about other people’s karma.
Oftentimes a soul flip flops from birth to birth, living a lifetime with lots of sinning and then deciding to reform themselves at the end of that life and in the next birth leading a very reformed life. Or visa versa. That is why you get people who in this birth smoke cigars and drink a bottle of whiskey every day and live to be 100.
How do they do it? They have a stock of good karma from the previous birth. Good karma means having a healthy body, a healthy mind and plenty of wealth. Wrong action, or sin, is anything which goes against spiritual principles. Spiritual principles are about how you think about yourself and others.
Every word and action starts as a thought in the mind. Really you do create your world through your thoughts every day. And collectively we seven billion souls on the planet now have created the world we live in through our thoughts.
You may wonder how it is that some people who lie, cheat and steal are wealthy if wealth is a sign of good karma. Don’t worry about anybody else. Eventually everyone gets their karmic return. The only one you have to be concerned about is your own self.
You may wonder about luck. How is it that some people win a lottery. Truthfully, there is no such thing as luck. They win the lottery because they were very generous in a past birth. What goes around comes around. It’s all accurate.
The law of karma is very deep and complex. If you gave 100 kittens 100 balls of wool and set them loose in a room to run around and play and then you came back a few hours later to find the tangled mess of wool that they had created, that is what the tangled web of karma looks like that we souls have created in this world. All our karmas are interconnected.
Can you pray to God to take away your karmic return? No. God can’t do that. It would go against the law of karma and God can’t go against the law of karma. In fact God is outside the law of karma and God can’t even create karma or receive the return of karma.
Does this mean that God is not all powerful, the Almighty Authority? No. God is all powerful. But God’s role is Purifier of the entire world, and the entire universe. It takes a lot of power to do that. But God doesn’t get involved in our pettiness. Everything that we souls do is pettiness. One brother soul goes to God complaining about another brother soul. Do you really think that God is going to help one and not the other and not the rest of the souls who don’t pray? Do you really think that God gets involved in wars?
When I was a kid I used to wonder, if one person is praying for a nice day for their picnic tomorrow and a farmer is praying for rain for his crops, and the two desires conflict, then what does God do? The truth about this is that God is detached but very loving like a good parent.
He doesn’t get involved. The physical comparison to God would be the sun. The sun radiates warmth and light on the earth regardless of who is there. The sun doesn’t pick and choose who to shine on. If you don’t feel the sun it’s because you’ve gone inside the house. Equally if you don’t feel God, it’s because wrong karma is creating a barrier, (a shadow) between you and God.
What you can do is to understand who God is and how he operates. He is a soul, completely pure, completely peaceful, completely benevolent, completely blissful, completely powerful, completely loving and fully detached.
He is the Truth. Connect your mind to Him. He’s a tiny point of radiant spiritual light. Speak to Him with a lot of love. Give Him your burdens.
Even if you are going through your karmic accounts, God will give you the strength to pass through them easily. Loving remembrance of Him, acceptance of your karma, and humility to learn the lesson and transform the self is like the lubricant that allows you to pass through your accounts with ease.
I hope that this gives you some idea about karma. Karma is very deep, there is a lot to it and it’s not always easy to understand, especially when you are the one on the receiving end of something that seems bad.
Just be a detached observer, and use the opportunity to learn and grow. Don’t allow other people’s karma to pull you down into depression. The best way that you can help others is to be stable and strong yourself and give every soul the gift of your own peace and happiness.
[Special guest writer Carol Biberstein makes her living as an artist, art teacher and Farmers’ Market Bread Lady in Brampton, Ontario, Canada. She has been a student of Raja Yoga meditation for 6 ½ years, has changed a lot from the inside outward, and expects to transform completely. She writes about deep spiritual matters to inspire others to transform their lives. All thanks goes to the Creator, the one who inspires the re-creation of the world!]
