My Take on Karma
I was prompted to write this in response to someone’s question about karma. This person was brought up in a Judeo-Christian setting and had little exposure to Eastern philosophy or cosmic laws.
Ever tried to give a short answer to a subject that has been written and talked about for centuries? Not easy. But here’s my best try in under 1000 words.
By now many people around the globe know or have heard about the Law of Attraction. Many came to learn about this Universal Law from the movie, The Secret, that Rhonda Byrne produced.
The Law of Attraction says that we attract everything in our lives. Science tells us that for every action, there’s an equal and opposite reaction. Said differently, the energy you put out is the energy you get back. What goes around, comes around.
Quantum physics tells us that everything in the Universe is energy. What we think of as material or physical are just waves of energy. Energy cannot be created nor destroyed. It can change or be converted from one form to another but it can never be annihilated. As such, death is only a transition of consciousness from one form to another.
Mind reading gadgets, thanks to A.I., are here. External devices today can read our conscious thoughts through brain waves. Probing inside our skulls is a thing of the past.
If technology shows that thoughts can be captured outside our brains, knowing this, we can assume that our thoughts are not contained in the body. When the body dies, consciousness remains. We do not need to fear death.
Ever heard of past life regression, people remembering previous lives or near-death experiences? People have them all the time. No need to get into these subjects here because there is unlimited and authoritative material everywhere.
Karma is our chance to return to get a lesson right. We come back to do something better, to learn and grow from an experience we didn’t quite master in a previous life.
Our goal is to do away with karma as did many of the great Masters like Jesus, Buddha, and Krishna. These sages continue to influence today through their writings, thought vibrations, energy, and, some say, even their reappearance.
We have many great teachers alive today, too — role models whose wisdom shows us how to rid ourselves of karma to become enlightened. These include Deepak Chopra, Rhonda Byrne, Abraham Hicks, Gregg Braden, Dr. Bruce Lipton, Dr. Joe Dispenza, Lynne McTaggart, Eckhart Tolle, and until recently Wayne Dwyer, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Mother Teresa, and Paramahansa Yogananda.
Souls who rid themselves of karma do not have to return. Some chose to do so to help countless rise above the physical plane.
Reincarnation is not a punishment. Quite the opposite. It’s a loving gesture from Source, God, Universe, Infinite Intelligence, The Matrix — whatever you call that power greater than yourself — giving us another opportunity to get it right. When we “graduate” from this earthly existence, after working out all our negative karma, we ascend into a higher dimension to become evolved spiritual Masters.
Karma is a choice. It’s not a judgment imposed on us by a far away or hard to identify with Super Being or deity who has a rule book in the heavens. We’ve grown past that juvenile form of thinking.
Paramahansa Yogananda explains that “Out of the crowded centuries of your experiences, your karma follows you. And, whenever you are reborn that karma consisting of all your past thoughts, actions, and habits creates not only your appearance but your personality traits. Your strongest moods and character tendencies did not begin with this birth. They were established in your consciousness long before. The very fact that you are a male or female is determined by your self-chosen tendencies in previous lives. And so in this way we have through our karma, we have handcrafted every aspect of who we are through a great number of incarnations.”
Judgment was created by power-hungry individuals and religious institutions to keep the masses under their service and control.
Churches, synagogues, temples, or written scriptures were not present at the Big Bang nor in the first few million years of earth’s creation.
Have you stopped to think why millennials love their freedom, are more in tune with environmental issues and hate working 9–5 in crowded toxic spaces for bosses who hold different values than they do?
As new generations come to earth, they’re more evolved in their thinking and not as easily manipulated. They’re less swayed by organized religion and they rely more on their higher thinking and intuitive skills for answers to eternal questions.
Why are so many baby boomers and elderly today in despair and feel lost despite their religious upbringings and ties? One size fits all religions no longer serves a fast awakening global society.
Now that we know better, we can take back our power and know for certain that we’re not going to burn in hell for all eternity or be obliterated for breaking any rules. We’re the only ones responsible for our karma. We’re in complete control of our destiny. Do we want to come back or not? It’s our choice.
Our natural state is that of well-being. We’re meant to live in joy. The only way to do this is to exist in harmony with all of creation. So long as we don’t harm anyone or anything (intentionally) including ourselves and as long as we live with unconditional love, we don’t create karma.
I was raised an orthodox Latin American Catholic, nearly converted to Judaism in my twenties, was a minister in the Methodist Church, and have studied Western scripture for decades. None of these teachings or institutions taught me about Karma. I follow the examples of great masters, like the ones I’ve named here.
Knowing that our thoughts create our reality, that we bring about what we think about, and that thoughts live outside the body, I might as well live fearlessly and attract only the best thoughts for the highest good of all. If I want to return to the physical plain, I have the freedom to do so. It’s my choice.
I have power over Karma.
