We are but tiny ships navigating the winds and waves of Karma on the ocean of existence.
The Law of Karma is the law that determines for every action, there is an equal, but opposite, reaction. What goes around comes around. As you sow, so shall ye reap.
Most believe their Karma is acting upon them from outside.
Most fancy their thoughts and emotions to be their own.
Yet most of people’s Karma is between their ears and in their hearts, setting their sails in whatever direction it does.
Facts are just dots on a page.
How people’s hearts and minds connect those dots determines their image of others—of the world.
Anything can be and is justified with the intellect.
Anything can be and is justified with the emotions.
Karma weaves the webs people call life.
Karma weaves the webs people call truth.
Karma weaves the webs people call justice.
Though Karma is God’s Will, Karma is only half of God’s Will.
The other half is accessible to the extent that people’s hearts and minds are free from Karma.
Some call it the Divine Spark within.
Some call it the Transcendent.
Some call it the Kingdom of Heaven.
It is not enough to think you are free.
It is not enough to feel you are free.
It is usually just people’s Karma that makes them think and feel they are free.
To find that place of Divine and True Freedom is to transcend this world of Karma.
Divinity lies beyond thoughts and emotions.
Yet, Divinity is the source of thoughts and emotions that emerge unaltered or altered by the winds and waves of Karma.
Projections of inner negativity (conviction, anger, judgement, fear, etc.) are the waves and winds of karmic currents that direct and twist the fate of people’s thoughts and emotions.
Divinity and Karma are the two aspects of God’s Will which entwine to form the world… through people and by people, and therein act upon people.
Jyotish charts are the complex maps of Karma.
The world’s karmic map has, of late, shown severe winds and churning waves.
But the time is coming when people will live from a place within, beyond the touch of Karma.
The time is coming when people can walk through the world of Karma, but not lose Themselves to Karma.
The time is coming when people will be established in the silent Divine Depth of the ocean of existence.
True peace, harmony, love, and freedom lie beyond the choppy waves of karmic existence that most call life.
Looking to the surface to find the Divine, though common and understandable, is an emotional fantasy. Divinity, though permeating the surface, dwells deeper.
Thoughts and emotions are, at best, echoes of Truth which, held too tightly, hold Truth at bay.
It is up to the individual to transcend:
to access the depth within.
to be “without the three Gunas”, called karmic life, and “take the mind to infinity” as Krishna declared in the Bhagavad Gita.
to no longer lose one’s self to the maze of karmic thoughts and emotions.
to no longer behave as dictated by Karma’s polarizing convictions of good and bad.
to stop reaching to emotional images of God as a substitute for the true Divinity of God.
The time is coming to know thy true Self.
It is called wisdom.
It is called maturity.
It is called Divine.
It is called Good Will toward all.
Outstanding! This is the best discourse on karma that I ever remember reading. This blog is one I will treasure and re-read.
Thank you for this gift as the decade closes. <3
I agree with Mark…
So many threads to contemplate well into the New Year. Thank you!
Happy New Year to you and all at Mount Soma!
Beautifully and clearly expressed, so good to reflect on. thank you
Great blog
+1000! Agree with Mark
This understanding can answer many questions that have plagued humanity throughout the ages. For example: “If there is a God, why do people suffer?” Simple answer is: “Karma”. Simple cause and effect. Of course, we should not assume we can in all cases know what the cause was. As said in the Bhagavad Gita, the course of action is unfathomable. But Karma (i.e. predetermination) and free will are the two aspects of God’s Will that describe the mechanics.
Can you discern for me how an individual with a free will to interact with the physical environment differs from the deeper part of ourselves that connects to a non-dual dimension not bound or limited by the confines of physical space and time, and its relationship to Karma?
Wondrous!
Bob,
Much of what people consider their free will is actually their Karma. Just because it feels free, does not mean it is. Perspectives and beliefs are more conditioned (karmic programming) than truly free. Freedom comes from that non-dual essence. Though that transcendental essence is the source of everything (including our thoughts and feelings), as the transcendent rises up and moves through our being as thoughts and feelings, Karma takes hold of it and twists, turns and molds it into something other than what it is in its pure Divine state. Mind is the result of prana (the breath of the transcendent) mixed with Karma. Karma + Prana = Mind. That is what is meant when some spiritual scriptures say to attain the state of ‘no mind’. To the observer, the state of ‘no mind’ appears like mind, but it is actually Prana undistorted by Karma. Of course, Hollywood likes to portray it as something distinctly and overtly other-worldish. “-)