Karma: the belief that what goes around, comes around

Karma: the belief that what goes around comes around. As you sow, so shall ye reap. What you do to others, you are really doing to yourself for when it comes back it is you who are receiving the punch in the nose, having the wallet stolen, or getting a ride home. It’s justice. It’s sometimes called the three-fold law, but it is not multiplied. Justice is an eye for an eye. Karma does extend even to thought, and if you allow yourself to think of some things, chances are you will think of that again. If you think about it again chances are you will do it, so there you might get the three from.

There are two good arguments I’ve heard against the law of karma. First is the idea that the gods will mixed with free will is the reason good and bad things happen to us. If that were true, a well trained magician would rein supreme on this planet, and the only things that would affect him, are the things that he would allow to affect him. (I use the masculine tenses only because it is good english, and not because I think higher of men over women). Now I should argue the existence of magick, but that is beyond the scope of this essay. The second argument is that all is chaos, minus the laws of physics. Whatever happens to us is pure chance. I honestly have no good argument against that. I feel it is an argument of the less spiritually minded, and the concept of karma definitely falls into the realm of metaphysics.

Karmic Transference (for the purpose of this page) is to say you may have owed person A the cash, but person B takes the cash from you because person B gave person A the money for some unrelated reason (hence the going around). Such things happen all the time. All actions and thoughts return to the originator, in the way they were perceived by those affected.

Negative karma is anything bad that happens to you, and positive karma is anything good. These are separate accounts. One does not cancel out the other. An extreme imbalance in either will force your next life to be in paradise or hell, as seen fit. Otherwise your karmas will lead you back here to earth as one species or another. Only a balance of karmas and evolving through at least one lifetime as every species can lead to the human existence. It is a great blessing, for not even the angels or gods achieve true enlightenment.

Dharma, which is closely associated with karma, is the karma or fate that you will experience in this lifetime, and it is the choices that you will be presented. We earn karma for the choices we make, but choice itself is not a karma. Our fate is sealed from the day we are born, but we are living in a world of illusion called mya. Mya makes us think that the world is real, and that we have choices in our future. We must work with mya until we can escape from it. The world is a prison and mya is the warden, karma our crime, the devil the prosecutor, and the Masters are our attorneys. Once the debt is paid, that is our karmas are washed away, we are free to go.

While that all may be easy to comprehend on that simple level, I wish to take it to the extreme here, to show you what's really happening.

For my first example, suppose you were to win the $1 coin rub-off lottery for $200.00, and then we can easily say that it was $200.00 of positive karma manifesting or coming into being. So to analyze this further we can say that at some point in your past, be it this life or a previous one, you gave away to some person or other charity the equivalent of $200.00. That was a real easy example of positive karma. While karma does not accumulate interest, it does adjust for inflation or deflation.

Now suppose you were to lose your wallet containing the afore mentioned getting around "go" amount of $200.00. Let’s also say that at some point you owed a friend $200.00 and that you’ve lost contact with your friend over the years and never heard from them again. That then could be negative karma manifesting. To take this example a step further: let's say some fellow found your wallet containing your ID and the money. He then decided to keep the money and anonymously turn in the wallet claiming the money was already gone. How has the karma transferred this time?

The karma here is your continued loss of $200.00 which was really $200.00 you owed that very person either directly, or by some sorta' karmic transference being manifested. That immoral person who found your wallet and kept the money had a choice, but chose to steal added to his negative karma. So then we know at some later date that soul will have $200.00 taken from him/her.

Theft could be thought as borrowing from your future self. So as a warning I’m inclined to state that all debts should be paid promptly.

A different type of example: you are driving down the road, with not enough time to react, a squirrel jumps out in front and is summarily flattened. What has happened here?

Since there was literally nothing you could do, no intention on your part, there is no blame on you. Karma takes intention in to account, not just end result. This was in fact a manifestation of your negative karma: you received the very unpleasant emotional feeling of having squished a seemingly innocent woodland rodent. Negative karma has also manifested for the poor squirrel, it died, or rather was killed abruptly with little or no pain. It must of, therefore, killed something in its past and you must have caused it (or someone else if karmic transference occurred) guilt at some point.

How does the karma transfer for a soldier in Vietnam killing Charlie with all due prejudice? The answer to this one is the supreme commander gets all karma for the soldier's duty-full actions. The soldier was drafted, or had volunteered for that duty. It is the person who told him to do this action of killing that must get all of the blame -- not just for the murdering that was done, but also for countless innocent lives, property, and morals that were saved. The karma goes all the way up the chain of command every time. It is so in business as well. The employees of a restaurant get no negative karma for serving meat; in fact they get positive karma for performing a service, which promptly manifests as a paycheck. It is the owners that get the karma for the assist in murdering of innocent chickens, cows, and pigs.

This biggest hang-up that most people have about karma is with regards to the animal diet. They will state how it is simply natural for lion to eat the antelope, and since we are supposedly omnivorous (usually that argument is based on the fact we have canine teeth. Research has shown that all other animals with our bite use it for tearing at the flesh of fruits), we can therefore eat as we wish without fear of karma for our actions. That is simply not true. Every single thought carries with it the burden of karma! It is natural for a lion to kill antelope for sustenance, but the soul of a lion choose a path that lead him/her to that life, and does not have reason as we do. These consequences are not withheld simple because we need to eat to live. The killing (or just eating) of animal flesh for food carries with it the burden of murder, regardless of how natural or (un) intentional it is done.

Life subsists on life. Animals are here to be our servants and friends, not to be our food. For food we have plants, which feel much less. The amount of pain felt, how evolved the life form is, and the amount of life things would have had had you not interrupted their life by killing make a difference in the karma earned. So does intention. If eating animal means the difference between your life and death, then your death you should accept as the karma will be less.

You pay for what you get. You pay with either cash or time spent looking for the bargain. You can get things cheap, high quality and right away. Pick two.

The greatest sin is hurting another’s feelings. Just think of how easy that is to do. Just think of all of the crimes that hurt feelings as well as the karma laden criminal act itself.

The karmic penalty for suicide is being forced to start the cycle of births and deaths again, from scratch. That is, incarnating as the lowest evolved life form and climbing your way back up to the top. You must have at least one life in every species and a balance of negative and positive karmas before you can be in human form.

One special case for karma is for healers: your medical practitioners, both modern and holistic, burn their own karma when healing, and negate negative karma of yours when healing it.

Everyone is responsible for their own actions, or inactions. You cannot assume responsibility for others unless they are subordinate to you, such as an employee or child. Even then you are only responsible if they do as instructed, or you fail to correct their actions or inactions.

If you choose to give advice you get some of the karma if the advice is followed and sometimes if it is not followed.

Karma is logically being burned all the time because our environment is constantly affecting us, but since we are logically affecting our environment our karmas are constantly increasing, often at a faster rate than the burning. Karma is the key factor that is keeping us here, on the material region. If we had no karma with the world, we would immediately ascend to the next highest level where we did have karma. If we had no karma with any of the regions, we would float right up to the home of souls where we belong, and everybody knows our name. If we had no karma we would have no connection to the five passions: ego (vanity), lust, anger, pride and attachment.

To perform an action, and have no karma, one must have no desire for compensation or reward of any kind; this includes the even desire for “thanks”. All actions done thusly have no karma attached, for they were done without attachment to or for the results; the deed was done to be in compliance with God’s design and not of the ego.

All desire is suffering. To desire something, is to add to karma, and to seek to get that which you desire, is to add much more karma. The only wholesome desire is to desire God’s love and grace, and to desire to get the hell out of Dodge. A need is something you probably don't want. A want is probably something you don't need.

Karma determines destiny. Your future is sealed, for time is a constant. All that has happened and will happen is recorded in the akashic records. Before you were born, you accepted your life and everything that came with it. You earned it. Dharma is the karma that is manifesting in this lifetime for you; it is your destiny. Karmaless beings i.e. saints have no karma however what they are going to do in this region is predetermined. While they are all powerful, they are equally powerless. It is an impossible thing to comprehend unless you’ve done it, that is become a transcended being yourself.

Birth has only one karma attached to it, and that is death. If you are born you must die.

My religion suggests that we do service to one another. It has a hierarchy for the value of that service: cash after death, is the lowest; cash while living; physical service, getting your hand dirty; meditation.

There are three ways I know of that causes karma to be removed: meditation, fate, and forgiveness. By meditation I mean the true meditation as given by a Living Master. Meditation is the ultimate way to worship God. It includes Simran and Bajan for two and a half hours daily.

By fate I mean the seeming random occurrences of both good, bad, and indifferent karma that makes up our day to day worldly existence; karma is constantly manifesting we need do nothing to allow this form of karmic cleansing to take place.

By forgiveness I do not mean from God, He forgave you before you even did the deed! If you do not forgive your trespassers, that attachment will keep your soul here and your meditations will be fruitless so long as it remains. Should you be forgiven the karmic debt will be greatly removed. Forgiveness is the letting go, letting bygones be bygones. Forgiving someone does mean to forget what they did, and get on with things. It does not mean that if necessary precautions need to be taken for safety purposes, that they should not be taken because you ‘forgot’ what the other person did. Act with common sense, and a loving heart.

This point cannot be stressed too much. Forgiveness should reach a point where you actually thank those that trespass against you. If shit is dumped on your head (literally or metaphorically) thank the person doing so and forgive them. By doing so their karmic burden and yours is lessened. Don’t get mad, don’t get even. Let it go, so that you can go.

While we are given the power of judgment and reason, we are not all-knowing. Only someone all-knowing can accurately judge another. So judge not. Love equally. If you are called to serve on a jury, and serve, you will bear karmic burden for those punished (in any way conceivable), both innocent and guilty, both plaintiff and defendant. However, this is not to say that parents should not use their judgment and punish the children, but they should spare the rod.

Karma is justice, an aspect of the adversary. Love is mercy, an aspect of God.

Expect nothing. Be prepared for anything. Your mind, your will, shapes the here and now, how things are for you. Everything that happens to you, and that you do, is by your choice and permission. If you want change, it is for you to initiate the change. If it is not true, kind and necessary then don’t say it. Save your breath.

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