Originally published June 5 2011
Understanding Karma (Opinion)
by Hesh Goldstein
(NaturalNews) It is not that God arbitrarily chooses to make you poor and another person rich. It is not God who's doing it but you.
Many religious sects, atheists and people in general have always posed the question, why is it if God loves all of us - His children - are there so many disparities and disabilities?
Unfortunately, however, people have failed to receive a satisfactory answer to this question. Many priests, pastors, ministers and rabbi's who do not actually have the answer attempt to reply:
"We can't understand God's dealings. It's a test. It's God's will, you know", and so on. Because they don't appreciate transmigration of the soul or the science of reincarnation and karma, then they cannot satisfactorily answer this question. In reality the answer is simple:
If you appreciate the law of karma, "as you sow, so shall you reap", or "what goes around, comes around, then you can appreciate how your prosperity or non-prosperity is due to your previous activities.
God has simply arranged the laws in such a way that you have possession of your own destiny. If you are suffering now because you were born with one leg, then you may have two ways of looking at it.
First, you see it as your fault. Second, you see it as God's fault. After all, if you think that life just began with this body then you will question, "well, how come it's like this?" What possible basis could God have for doing this to me? I didn't do anything."
If you do not appreciate that you existed previously and that whatever you are going through now is simply the result of your past activities, you will see it as being unfair.
This means that whatever you are reaping now, you must have previously sown. Jesus did not say, "as you sow, someone else will reap", or "what you're reaping now, you never sowed. He said, very clearly, "As you sow, so shall you reap".
So, it's not a question of God not being perfect, or of Him not loving you but it's a question of your having done something which you shouldn't have done and which you must pay for. If you do not appreciate this truth that you are the one responsible for your destiny, then you'll end up throwing the blame at God. Unfortunately, you may even come to the point of seeing God as a very powerful being who has no concern and no sense of justice.
Because of not understanding the reality of karma, reincarnation, etc, people not only become bitter towards God but may become atheists as well and totally reject the existence of God altogether. Therefore, there must be appreciation of the reality that your situation is due to your own making. You made your present existence by your past activities. What's more, you are preparing for your future existence by your present activities.
Remember that karma means action. Good karma means good action and bad karma means bad action. Good and bad, here, are both material concepts and not at all transcendental. Good karma leads to good karmic reaction and bad karma leads to bad karmic reaction. Both are in the material dimension and not in the spiritual dimension.
Say you engage in activities that help or benefit others. This is good karma. If you engage in activities that bring pain and suffering to others, this is bad karma. Both of these actions are noted by the Lord and both are stored in your karmic "bank account". After death, a person then gets a body according to his mentality and to the karmic reaction good or bad due him. So although God provides a person with a gross material body according to how that person wants to enjoy, it is the person himself who is responsible for the actions, which he engages in while in that body. Being responsible for one's actions, a person must suffer or enjoy all the reactions to his actions.
Pleasure and suffering relate directly to an individual, not a group of individuals. In other words, I'm in this body and you are in your body. I can suffer and I can enjoy but you cannot experience what I feel and vice-versa.
In any case, try to understand that everyone suffers. It's not only that some people suffer. Some people might think it unfair that a person leaves their body at age twenty. But if someone leaves their body at age eighty, is that fair?
The fact is that this material world is not our home. We are spiritual by essence and we are eternal. We don't belong here. It's not that we are being punished. It is actually a method - a system of education. This world is a school that has been set up by God. We are supposed to learn that this is not our home and we are supposed to go back home - back to the Kingdom of God, back to our Supreme Father. And we do this by engaging in God-centered spiritual activity.
We have to transcend the material dimension, both good and bad karmic activities, and rekindle the desire to go to God's Kingdom, which cannot be achieved by pious activities which are material by nature. We have to come to the platform of being resituated in the loving service to the Supreme Father. When we are tasting the nectar of loving devotion to God will we be satisfied and happy.
God is in the heart of every living entity. He knows our wants and He knows our desires. If you want to know Him, He will work it out. We have to go deep within ourselves and pray for His help to reconnect with Him.
In an ancient text called the Bhagavad-Gita, God says, "If one offers me, with love and devotion, a leaf, a flower or some water, I will accept it". In Genesis, God tells us that plants have been provided to us as the foundation of our diets. Only through time, circumstance and whining, was flesh permitted, and that was strictly for survival. And the flesh had to be prepared in a very lengthy process. Not by killing 400 plus animals an hour.
So the easiest way to start the reconnecting process is to offer all plant-based foods to Him before we eat them. It's a matter of putting Him first. As this continues and as we become more and more engaged in devotional activities to Him, our karmic reactions will become farther apart and if we are fortunate we will not have to come back to the material world again.
Namaste!
About the author:
I have been doing a weekly radio show in Honolulu since 1981 called "Health Talk". In 2007 I was "forced" to get a Masters degree in Nutrition because of all the doctors that would call in asking for my credentials. They do not call in anymore. Going to www.healthtalkhawaii.com enables you, among other things, to listen to the shows. I am an activist. In addition to espousing an organic vegan diet for optimum health, I am strongly opposed to GMOs, vaccines, processed foods, MSG, aspartame, fluoridation and everything else that the pimps (Big Pharma, Monsanto and the large food companies) and the hookers (the doctors, the government agencies, the public health officials, and the mainstream media) thrust upon us, the tricks.
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I have been doing a weekly radio show in Honolulu since 1981 called "Health Talk". In 2007 I was "forced" to get a Masters degree in Nutrition because of all the doctors that would call in asking for my credentials. They do not call in anymore. Going to www.healthtalkhawaii.com enables you, among other things, to listen to the shows. I am an activist. In addition to espousing an organic vegan diet for optimum health, I am strongly opposed to GMOs, vaccines, processed foods, MSG, aspartame, fluoridation and everything else that the pimps (Big Pharma, Monsanto and the large food companies) and the hookers (the doctors, the government agencies, the public health officials, and the mainstream media) thrust upon us, the tricks.
After being vaccinated with the DTP vaccine as a child I developed asthma. After taking the organic sulfur crystals (they are harvested from the pine trees in Louisiana) in November of 2008 for 10 days my asthma reversed and has not come back over 4 years later, 18 cases, so far, of autism have been reversed, as has cancer, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease, osteoarthritis, joint pain, astigmatism, gum disease, increased sexual activity, heavy metal and radiation elimination, parasite elimination, free radicals elimination, faster athletic recovery time, increased blood circulation, reduced inflammation, resistance to getting the flu, reduction of wrinkles, allergy reduction, reduced PMS and monthly period pain, nausea, migraines and so much more. And it's only possible because of the oxygen it releases that floods the cells of the body. The sulfur, as proven by the University of Southampton in England, enables the body to produce vitamin B12 and the essential amino acids. You can find out more about this incredible nutrient also on my website - www.healthtalkhawaii.com -.
My book, "a Sane Diet For An Insane World", has been published. It can be viewed at
www.asanediet.com.
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