Relentless Karma and What to Do About It
Monday, February 8, 2010 at 12:39PM By Jonathan Parker, Ph.D.
Karma is a word that has a lot of charge for some people. I know a person who is adamant he doesn't believe in karma. He says he's looked into it for years and has figured out that it is all an illusion. It seems to me that he would like to deny its existence and just wish it away with a new label. I have known others who got upset at hearing the word karma in a spiritual conversation because that word is not in the Bible. Never mind that; there are many words not mentioned in the Bible like oxygen for instance, but they are sure glad it is in the air they breathe.
Karma is not a word anyone needs to fear, but it is a word that is helpful to understand. The word karma is derived from the Sanskrit KRI, "To Do." The word also means the effects of thoughts, words and actions, and it also means the effects of our past actions which were the causes. Another way of looking at karma is that karma is energy in motion. The Bible does say we reap what we sow and since that is an aspect of karma, I think it is fair to say that karma is in the Bible in principle if not in name. All of our thoughts, feelings and actions create and set in motion energy patterns which create effects. I think that is really just an observation not a religious issue. The form and direction of what has been set in motion continues until another force changes the motion or the energy dissipates. That is karma in a nutshell.




















