Karma’s not a bitch!
I’m here to tell you, you got karma all wrong, karma is not a bitch!
Nothing happens by chance or outside the cosmic laws of the Universe. Every Action has a reaction or consequence “We reap what we sow”. Ralph Waldo Emerson once said the Law of Cause and Effect is the “law of laws”.
Newton’s third law of motion
Newton’s third law of motion first presented his three laws of motion in the “Principia Mathematica Philosophiae Naturalis” in 1686. His third law states that for every action (force) in nature there is an equal and opposite reaction.
No doubt you’re aware of the agricultural law: you’ll reap what you sow. You sow carrots, you reap carrots. You sow corn, you reap corn. The same law, Paul tells the Galatians, applies to the spiritual realm as well: you’ll reap what you sow. Now what’s tricky is that sowing involves a process of time. For a while, it may look like nothing’s happening. Or maybe fruit has begun to grow but is slow to ripen. Though this process is absolutely vital, the time it takes may be trying. In the end, if the seeds we’ve sown are good, the harvest will be gratifying.
As you make your bed, so you must lie in it. All these are just sayings throughout history that acknowledge the universal cosmic law of cause and effect, or karma, as it is known in Sanskrit. Notice Sanskrit describes in one word what takes us three words to describe! ?
Even quantum physics has the theory of entanglement, which Albert Einstein once described as “spooky action at a distance”, where what you do to a very small particle at one end of the universe has a predictable effect on a particle at the other end of the universe, theoretically.
The earliest actualization for the cosmic law of cause and effect was first recorded by Hermes Trismegistus the Egyptian, a contemporary of Abraham and if legends be true, an instructor of that venerable sage. Herme’s philosophical musings are said to have also influenced early Indian, Persian, Chinese, and certainly ancient Greece and Rome philosophies.
His sixth Hermetic Principle is the principle of cause and effect. Nothing in the universe happens by chance. We say “something happened by chance” only because we can not see the bigger picture. Maybe this is what Einstein meant when he coined the phrase “spooky action at a distance.”
There is an existing cause, but with our limited mental abilities, we cannot connect the dots from a cause to an effect. Perhaps the timeline is too long, the cause may have happened so far back in our past that we can not connect the cause to the effect. But this law is never broken, there is always a cause with a subsequent effect.
Karma is decidedly SHE
Karma also lends a distinctly feminine view of history where every event is the fruit of the past and the seed of the future. Contrast that to popular Westernized academic view of history with its love for the conflict model of Hegelian dialectics 1
, where thesis creates antithesis until there is resolution and a new thesis!
We have a problem, solve it, get rid of it, and we have another problem!
Karma connects us all together, it connects us to the past and to the future. We are what we have become today because of what we did yesterday. However, we are free to change moving forward. 2
But don’t think this locks you into unending cycles of reactivity. Look at it as your ability to choose, your right as a human being to free will.
Because we have free will, we also bear responsibility for our behaviour. That is why the cosmic law of Karma, cause and effect, is valid for us humans. The Karmic Law states that every action we take will at some time come back to us in the same way as it went out from us.
Therefore, the most important idea that we should always observe is:
To harm no-one by our thoughts, words or deeds.
But don’t think of yourself as being on the receiving end of bad karma, rather consider yourself on the giving frontend of good karma.
Pay it forward.
Every moment of every day, you have the ability to choose what you will do; you live in a realm of pure possibilities, your choices are limitless. When you consciously choose actions that bring happiness and success to others, then this happiness and success comes back to you. The best way to understand and maximize the use of karmic energy is to become conscious of the decisions you make in every moment. Don’t be reactive. Think about the choices you have and choose the path that brings you to the highest level (vibration) of happiness and bliss.
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BREAKING BAD Book
For a technique on how I have stepped back to witness a situation in order to make the best choice moving forward, check out a previous post “Breaking Bad Book” in the link.
Strengthen Your ROOT CHAKRA
Another technique for slowing done and pausing to think before reacting in a negative karmic way is to carry something red. Red is a color associated with your base energy, or root chakra, located around the base of your tailbone, which is associated with the law of cause and effect. 3 I have a japa mala that I associate with the root chakra that I carry with me to remind me of the cosmic law of cause and effect and that every day I have the free will to choose the best Karmic Option.
Awaken your EARTH element and sense of SMELL
Another way to maximize your good karma is to walk barefoot in the rain. This has the amazing benefits of strengthening your root chakra, which is associated with the element of earth and the sense of smell. Close your eyes and just picture yourself walking barefoot in the rain and you’ll know what I mean.
All the influential thinkers of the world have accepted as correct this underlying principle of cause and effect. To think otherwise would be to take the phenomenon of the universe from the domain of law and order and relegate it to total chaos.
- “Hegel’s dialectics” refers to the particular dialectical method of argument employed by the 19th Century German philosopher, G.W.F. Hegel, which, like other “dialectical” methods, relies on a contradictory process between opposing sides[↩]
- “My Gita” by Devdutt Pattanaik, Rupa Publications India Pvt. Ltd, 2015[↩]
- “The Seven Spiritual Laws of Yoga” by Deepak Chopra, Willey & Sons, Inc. 2006[↩]
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