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Life for God/Karma

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Karma

Vladimir Antonov

The Sanskrit word karma has two closely interrelated meanings, reflecting two phases of a single process: a) activities that affect the formation of destiny (hence, in particular, the term Karma-Yoga), and b) the consequences of such activity, that is, fate itself.

In this article, we will focus on the consideration of the second value.

Formation of Karma

Each one builds one’s own destiny with one’s ethically significant decisions and corresponding actions. Depending on this, the practical Manager of Destinies — the Holy Spirit (Brahman), will choose for each the place of birth, parents, body for incarnation, illnesses, will initiate contacts with these or other people — good and evil, smart and stupid.

Including, if a person commits any unjustified evil to any creature, then he or she thereby programs similar situations in his or her own life, that is, in one’s own destiny — but now appearing as a victim.

Conversely, good thoughts, words, emotions, and actions form good karma.

This phenomenon is called as the action of the “law of karma” — the law of the formation of destinies.

This is how God teaches people not to commit bad acts, but, on the contrary, to compassionate with the pain of others, to help all in all the good.

I repeat once again: inflicting pain on others — we program it into our own destinies, or stealing now — we build our fates in such a way that we will be robed, and so on. The only way to avoid such consequences is, having come to one’s own senses, to sincerely repent — to the extent that I forever exclude the ability to commit such acts.

Moreover, the “law of karma” extends its effect to a time-frame that exceeds only one earthly life. That is why, in particular, sick children are born.

Congenital and Purchased Karma

The destiny of each person consists of two interwoven lines: a) congenital and b) acquired in a given earthly life.

For example, if a child is born with some or other defects of the body or gets them at an early age, then it is his or her innate fate, that is, burdening life due to very serious ethical errors in the previous incarnation.

As the child grows up, it has the ability to make ethically meaningful decisions. On their basis, a new line of destiny begins to be formed. And it can gradually begin to prevail, and then dominate the inborn line.

In this way, an unfavorable fate can be reversed if we are on the right path of our development.

Conversely, a good fate can be “trampled down in the dirt” by one’s own ethical mistakes.

Fate is not some kind of mechanical law, defined, for example, by “stars” and “planets”. Fate is the direct leading people in life by God — the Supreme Consciousness, possessing Omnipresence, Omniscience, absolute Love, Wisdom, and Power. He leads each of us to Himself. If we go right — He encourages us to be blissful. If we turn from the Straight Path to Him — He points us to this by doing pain in one way or another.

Karma for Life Incarnate and Non-Incarnate

It should also be noted that there is a difference between a) the formation of good or bad karma for life in present material bodies, and b) the predetermination of the quality of our future “afterlife”.

To hell, to paradise or to Divine eons, we prepare ourselves — it does not depend on our concrete actions, but depends on what levels on the scale of subtlety — rudeness, we have accustomed ourselves during the earthly life.

In other words, the quality of the abode, in which the soul situates after the death of the body, is determined by the emotional status to which the person has accustomed himself or herself during life in the material body.

The abode of those, who live in bright, clean, subtle emotional states, will become at least paradise.

But rough emotions predetermine to life in hell after disembodiment.