THE LAW OF KARMA

Karma (The Law of Cause and Effect)

How many times have you heard someone say “what goes around comes around”? Many times we see recalcitrant behaviour met by a contrary action that puts someone in their place almost as if they are being punished for their actions. A topic that is increasingly becoming more known and investigated is that of ethics and ethical behaviour. We are living in an era where truth is seen as a relative quantity and the increasing use of “weasel” words and euphemisms to cover up what is really happening in the politics, economics and government processes can mask the most bestial and degraded human behaviour. I was listening to a discussion on ethics with the question being posed; “why is it so hard to be good?” and, the conclusion that was arrived at, was that it is better to make the best and most correct decision because whatever we do will have to be paid for in the future. This is what we would call karma and it is doing the right thing no matter what the cost because any action that would cause pain and suffering at any point in time would cause us to undergo an experience that would allow us to redress any wrong that we have done either consciously or unconsciously. It is totally logical to do the right thing at all times because anything else will cause suffering to ourselves…remember no one gets away with anything - from the heinous mass murderer, the corporate crook to the Hitlers and Saddam Husseins of this world - not even the smallest transgression goes unrecorded or unnoticed and all must be brought into balance. In a study it was shown that to tell the truth, no matter what the cost, created better outcomes than telling a lie no matter how small and no matter how “white”. There are consequences for all our actions no matter whether they are on personal, family, social, racial, national or planetary level. Karma is a shared process and any negative behaviour , especially when done on a large scale, results in a shared responsibility ..no avoidance is possible.

D.K.; The law of karma is the most stupendous law of the system and one that is impossible for most people to comprehend. The law of karma is a great and incontrovertible fact in the consciousness of humanity everywhere. They may not call it by that name, but they are well aware that in all today’s events the nations are reaping what they sowed. This great law – at one time a theory- is now a proven fact for many. The question “why?”, so frequently asked brings in the factor of cause and effect with constant inevitability. The concepts of heredity and environment are efforts to explain existing human conditions; qualities, racial characteristics, national temperaments and ideals, prove the fact of some initiating world of causes. Historical conditions, the relationships between nations, social taboos, religious convictions, can all be traced to originating causes – some of them most ancient. Everything that is happening in the world today, and which is so potently affecting humanity – things of beauty and of horror, are aspects of effects, initiated somewhere on some level, at some time, by human beings, both individually and en masse. Karma is therefore that which man has instituted, carried forward, endorsed, omitted to do, or has done right, through the ages until the present moment. Today the harvest is ripe and mankind is reaping what it has sown, preparatory to a fresh ploughing in the springtime of the New Age, with a fresh sowing of the seed that will produce a better harvest. All karma of evil nature is solved by the presentation of an accepting will, a cooperative love, a frank acknowledgement of responsibility and a skillful adjustment of united joint activity to bring about the good of humanity as a whole, not just the good of an individual nation or people or race. Karma has always been interpreted in terms of disaster, and consequences that are painful, of error, of penalty, and of evil happenings, both for the individual and for the group. Yet, such is the beauty of human nature, and much that is done is of such high quality, and so selfless and so happily orientated, that the evil is frequently offset by the good. There is everywhere, little as it may be realized, an abundance of good karma of a potency equal to that which is regarded as bad. The good karma brings into activity forces that may work out as healing energies in any specific case. What we have made we can unmake. Karma is not a hard and fast rule. It is changeable, according to our attitude and desire. It is the presenting of the opportunity to change; this grows out of past activities and these rightly met and correctly handled lay the foundation for future happiness and progress…karma is not all that is bad and evil.

The need to know about and understand karma is one of the fundamental needs for humanity. I always tell people that once we are introduced to the concept of cause and effect we are consciously subject to its influence…ignorance and lack of knowledge are a potential excuse for bad behaviour but, once we are alerted to the truth, there is no turning back and we will have no excuses or alibis….once the truth is known it cannot be unknown. As a result any indiscretion will have to be redressed and the “divine law of compensation” will not be in effect. We will be subjected to the law of karma and we will pay for all our discretions…especially those that we created when we were ignorant and blind….balance will be restored. This speeds up the evolutionary process.