No doubt you’ve heard the saying, no matter what part of the world you’re from, “what goes around, comes around.” I’m, of course, referring to the ancient philosophy of Karma.
Karma (Sanskrit: कर्म About this sound kárma (help·info), kárman- “act, action, performance”[1]; Pali: kamma) in Indian religions is the concept of “action” or “deed”, understood as that which causes the entire cycle of cause and effect (i.e., the cycle called saṃsāra) originating in ancient India and treated in Hindu, Jain, Buddhist and Sikh philosophies.[2]
‘Karma’ is an Indian religious concept in contradistinction to ‘faith’ espoused by Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam), which view all human dramas as the will of God as opposed to present - and past - life actions. In theistic schools of Hinduism, humans have free will to choose good or evil and suffer the consequences, which require the will of God to implement karma’s consequences, unlike Buddhism or Jainism which do not accord any role to a supreme God or gods. In Indian beliefs, the karmic effects of all deeds are viewed as actively shaping past, present, and future experiences. The results or ‘fruits’ of actions are called karma-phala.
(I stole that from wikipedia.org
I mean borrowed)I’ve mainly got two issues with this theory.
1. Karma states that actions which are either good or bad resonate with a particular person and as a result they will “suffer the consequences.” This is a major flaw in the topic. If Karma is a universal truth, it would not need a soul to judge whether an action fell into the column of good or bad.
Think of it this way, if there was no intelligent consciousness to make this judgment and separation between to the two given outcomes of a particular action, what outcome would any action have? You can look at it as a sort of “If a tree fell in a forest and no one was around to hear it, would it make a sound?” type argument.
2. Scholars and philosophers would then argue, “God makes the judgment, for God is eternal and judges all beings.” This again has a great flaw. The notion of God (with a “G”) means universal, eternal and infinite. Thus no judgment can be made. To say that God has the ability of judgment, an ability of conscious thought, belittles the universe with human qualities. In this scenario God is not God, but god.
Universal “oneness” makes no judgments and thought self-unity can only be one thing, unconditional love. Simple? sort of.
My view? I, personally believe that action do have consequential outcomes, however, it has more to do with energetic resonance than judgment.
Various actions, such as war, hate and negativity resonate at a low frequency, whereas actions closer to unconditional love resonate on a high frequency. This energetic frequency is projected from within your soul, outward, then events and circumstances (let’s call these concequences, for arguments sake) are reflecting back within you, from the universe. It’s an effect known as projection v. reflection.
In other words, you only get back what you put out. This is, in my opinion a universal truth because vibration needs no perceptual consciousness to exist. In fact according to quantum mechanics without perception all matter collapses into vibrational energy, after all what is matter anyway?
This is where you can find links with “the law of attraction” without all that wishy-washy stuff in between.
As always, sending my unconditional love.
Andray
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