What are the universal laws that actually exist? For example is Karma an actual law or is it a myth?

Question

If you know of any laws or a book about it could you share it with us?

Answer 1

As a Christian I would tell you that Karma is a myth.
A Hindu would disagree with me and tell you that it is a spiritual law.

You can find out more about Christian spiritual laws from the Bible.

Answer 2

Karma is like a law of supply and demand. It cannot be repealed. While there is some writings about it, it is not a written law made by man. It is a nature's way of showing two things that exist in the universe. Karma is "CAUSE AND EFFECT". Whatever action is done, a corresponding reaction happens.
Buddhists are the one who have those words and it became used now as a part of an English word like Tsunami of Japan.
Christian use to adopt it in the phrase, "What you sow, shall you reap."
I will not try to dwell so much in the word as you may not appreciate the deeper indications it has in the Buddhist's faith. Maybe it is enough to say what I said above but if you want more definitons about it, look it up in the Books of the Buddha.

Answer 3

Karma IS a universal law that each and every one of us, like it or not, has to live by. It affects everybody and without it, life has NO meaning.
Karma is not about religion, nor is it linked to any particular religion. Hinduism is in the true sense of the word, 'a way of life' and not a religion per say, however, it teaches you that karma & reincarnation goes hand in hand. Karma is your action, words & thoughts in life that affects others and your reap what you sow, be it good or bad and the repayments are not necessarily in this life but another. For every fortunate or unfortunate situation or person, it is as a result of karma. If there was only one life to live, then how would you explain a child being born less fortunate than another, or the drug dealers living a high life and no suffering, then dying at an old ripe age with no problems. They have to come back to pay or reap accordingly.

Answer 4

There are many kinds of "laws". There are the laws enacted by governments to control their citizens - they are written on paper and have no universal reality but do carry consequences if broken. Karma is not a law but a belief system invented by humans that describes how bad actions lead to bad consequences - but that is only in general, and there's no scientific theory of karma that can explain in detail mathematically how your "karma account" works, especially if you believe it's carried over from one incarnation to the next. No one can say with certainty how your actions in a past life will affect your actions in this one, or even how the bug you squashed yesterday will affect whether you get a job promotion today. Contrast this to the laws of physics which apply to all matter everywhere in the universe whether living or dead, human or not, and can be described with a great deal of mathematical precision. For example, the law of gravity says that matter attracts other matter, and it says exactly how much attraction there will be under various circumstances (mass, distance, etc).

For more about Buddhism, read The Buddhist Handbook: A Complete Guide to Buddhist Schools, Teaching, Practice, and History, by John Snelling. It lays out Buddhist beliefs in a very simple, succinct way which is wonderful for people who just want quick answers to simple questions and how don't want to get bogged down in details.

Answer 5

Funny thing about that little word 'exist' you use.

In order for universal laws to exist, they must be true (or they wouldn't be laws). To decide if something that seems to be a universal law is true, we must find proof for it.

Funny thing about that little word 'proof' I use.

Nothing, ultimately, can be proven. By this I mean, you can never prove all the possible facts in a system without referencing other facts in that system. This is known as Godel's Incompleteness Theorum.

In essence, given any group of facts, I can come up with a fact that cannot be proven or disproven via those facts. If you add this new fact to your set, I can still come up with ... etc etc etc...

What this means is that what is true is based on those things you just 'accept' as true. You define the game you want to play. If you want to do your geometry on a perfectly flat surface, then you play the Euclidean game, using the Euclidean Axioms as your starting points, just accepting them as true. If you later decide, "HEY! I don't like this parellel line axiom," and throw it out, you're now playing the Hyperbolic Game. The parallel line axiom cannot be proven. You have to take it or leave it as an axiom.

So then... universal laws. Do any exist? No one knows, not the atheists, not the agnostics, and not the theists. They may, they may not. However, you can't prove them even if they did exist, rendering the whole question moot.

Answer 6

The Universal laws that actually exist are best explored through Physics. Karma is not really any more testable than "Heaven", so it isn't really a law in the sense that I think you mean it to be. There really are no "laws" derived from religion: religous "laws" are inherently drawn from faith instead of evidence.

Karma, for example is premised upon the theory of reincarnation. Whether or not reincarnation exists can to some extent be explored in a scientific fashion, but drawing conclusions such as "good = this and bad = this" is simply not possible.

Answer 7

Karma is a concept that many (but not all) religions embrace, especially the Hindu faith.

Whether you believe that you are revisited in your life, or that it works against you in the next life, it sometimes is describes as "what goes around, comes around".

Answer 8

to those that beleive in karma it is a law for sure, another one is the golden rule, treat others the way you want to be treated. love is also a universal law..... people are people and we all have common traits.... we want love, respect, and a chance to be ourselves.

Answer 9

Karma is a myth.

Thermodynamics is a universal law.

Jesus Christ is the designer of the universe.

And it goes on.

Answer 10

Things like gravity.

Karma is an idea or good would always triumph and evil people would always pay for their crimes, and we both know that doesn't happen.