Does God interfer with our Karma?

Question

I have seen people dying despite all their nears and dears praying god

Even those who are deep into religion and have deep faith in god.... suffer (Paramhansa suffered due to throat cancer, Swami dayanad was poisoned.....Jesus was beaten mercilessly and crucified. Shankrayachaarya suffered from dreaded illness)


Can we say God leaves us on the mercy of our past karma and does not do anything to save us ?

What is the secret?

Answer 1

Is death really something from which anyone can be saved?

who knows the unnatural death of religious leaders was a way God saved them much before the time they were to be saved?

whatever it is, In the end we all have to pay and after the payment we all have to be saved.

:)

Answer 2

Sai Ram. The answer varies from the plane of our perception, just as the view changes from the base, middle and the top of a high mountain. The question of God interfering in our karma will arise only from a dualistic perspective of the world. If we accept the adviata (non-dualistic) philosophy, who is the sufferer?

We read a lot of stories testifying to God or Guru intervening at the times of crisis and saving people. We also read stories like what you described. Ramana Maharshi suffered with a form of cancer. Shirdi Sai Baba suffered from asthma and finally left His physical body after an illness. But there are so many instances of His saving others. It is all so confusing or you can think of it as Maya and a Divine Leela (play or sport). Sai Ram.

Answer 3

Generally God won't interfere in the individual karma. But if the individual really surrenders to god without any other thought, all his karmas will be nullified by the same god. It is just like this. You have got a tonic or medicine in a bottle. The manufacturers would have put an expiry date on the label. Though the medicine may remain in the bottle, it has no effect after the expiry date. Likewise, the karmas may be there. But due to God's extreme grace, such karmas get nullified.

Answer 4

No. God does not interfere anywhere. It is belived that when you are born your destiny is already written according to the deeds and misdeeds you did during your previous births ( karma) and as such you have to go through what ever is happening. This is your destiny. If god had to go on ammending your destiny then he will not time to write the destiny of the several thousands of human beings born everyday. And dont forget he has to write the destiny of all the other creatures as well. So you cant blame god for leaving you at the mercy of your past karma. You are only paying for what you did.
Anyway you cant do anything about this. Have fun. Enjoy what you have and dont regret for what you dont have.

Answer 5

We do lot of actions. Some are visible and some are invisible. What we get through the channel of our senses we say them action and others are not perceived as action.
Example when we hear a song we accept hearing as an action. But what about digestion or dreaming or thinking? They are also actions too.
We all consider death as "The End". But we do know God knows better than us.
Fact is we are mere dust when we compare ourselves to the huge cosmos. He controlls all that to say he is not controlling us.
Think how limited we are we cant see microbe or far of planets or see light beyond a wavelegnth or hear sound within a wavelength.
So is our knowing and knowledge of Karma. Only by grace of God things are happening although we do exercise a tiny bit of free will.

Answer 6

I think you are on to something. I worry about your mixing of religious traditions without clear definitions of concepts of God and Karma.

However, God does allow the world to run its course. I am not sure if a Chrisitian can call that Karma and mean the same thing that a buddhist does. I think God is a God of the future. God does not leave us to our past karma, but frees us from it.

Answer 7

Karma ability action and all strikes have outcomes / outcomes. regardless of the undeniable fact that outcomes at the instant are not basically based upon strikes additionally they count on situations. so which you would be able to no longer exchange your previous strikes yet you have administration over your present day strikes (karma) that can result the situations. So karma isn't a hundred% fatalistic. If it became a hundred% fatalistic there would be no escaping samsara. The 0.33 and fourth noble truths would be pointless and there would merely be the 1st 2 noble truths. there's a asserting “Bodhisattvas concern reasons, sentient beings concern outcomes and outcomes." meaning in case you look after your present day strikes the implications will finally be good yet once you concentration on the outcomes and not the strikes one will proceed to wander in samsara.

Answer 8

I think karma is only a relative concept. We will pay for our misdeeds, and we also suffer or enjoy the direct consequences of our choices in this life, but not all suffering is caused by our own karma.

We're in life for experience, which has a tendancy to bring us insight and wisdom. Sometimes we need to suffer, not because of something we've done, but just so that we can understand the suffering of other people or learn about some other aspect of ourselves.

Does God interfere with Karma (ie. just retribution)? Yes, but only if we ask him to. I believe that is why Jesus died for our sins... so that he could pay the karmic debt for us. It's only fair (ie justice) that if he does something for us, we do something in return... and all he asks is that we be humble enough to obey him and follow in his loving ways... so we can be of benefit to other people, too."

Answer 9

One has to work out ones own karma. That is the general law. That does not mean God's mercy does not interfere with the course of karma. He does it in exceptionally, as in the case of Markandeya and in many cases when the intensely devoted ones pleaded Him for His mercy. Jesus could bring back the dead to live. The reason why such sons of God as Jesus and others whom you mentioned suffered despite the powers they had to heal others and resurrect the dead could be that they had no desire to plead for themselves. They left themselves to the will of God. Let thy will be done- was their attitude. Ramakrishna Parahamsa once asked Swami Vivekananda to ask God Himself, when the latter wanted the former for the solution of his family's financial problem. Swami Vivekananda could not pray for anything for himself. Such is the attitude of the truly devoted.

Answer 10

You say you have seen people dying 'despite all their nears & dears praying to God.'
I dont believe praying to God will ever save a person from dying, nor will it save them from suffering whilst dying.
We all have to suffer in this life & we all have to die, and some of us may suffer whilst dying.
Our karmic account doesnt just apply to this lifetime only, but is an accumulation of all our lives & actions. Why would God step in to save us, when it is our responsibility to realise that it is only us who can save ourselves?