Do you believe in Karma?

Question

Do those that are cruel in life pay for what they do??

Answer 1

I'm neither a skeptic nor a believer but I've witnessed those that put out negative energy get their just "desserts"=P
So in a way for, "every action there's an equal and opposite reaction". Do good & you'll receive great rewards, do evil deeds and you'd live to regret it.

Answer 2

In Karma concept, dangerous karma can't be defeated by means of doing well karmas. The account for dangerous karmas are separate. And the account of well karmas are separate. The results of karma can't be mitigated. It needs to be loved or suffered. There is a Sanskrit Sloka: "Avasyam anubhogthavyam kritham karma subha asubham; naa bhugtham ksheeyathe karma kalpa koti sathairapi". Meaning; We have got to suffer the results of our karmas, if it is well or dangerous. No karma gets erased by means of doing different deeds. Sometime we must believe that we aren't doing and that nature is bringing any such situation to drive us to take a normal direction to adopt that movement. There is a pronouncing in Mahanarayana Upanishad: "Kamokarsheet Manyurakarsheet Namo Namah". It is an intricate factor, which I don't desire to give an explanation for right here. Those who recognise can recognize.

Answer 3

Yes, I do.

That is not quite what "karma" means. "Karma" means cause and effect across human lifetimes.

Therefore, you must accept the concept of reincarnation before you can accept the concept of karma. But, we go ahead and extend the range of karma to include cause and effect within one lifetime, as well.

Being cause and effect, the implication is not that cruel people pay for what they do. The implication is that cause and effect works no matter what we do, and we either like relevant states of affairs or we don't. We can either act in ways that bring around workable results, or not. The choices we make are from among the ones available at any given moment. From our decisions, cause and effect gives us the
next set of choices. This puts us in charge, whether or not we know it. It is better to know it, and make better choices through understanding how it works.

The causal chain can take a long time to balance things out, or to "swing back around." There are a lot of things that are at work in doing that. There is everything that happens! For example, in many instances there are material conditions to come into line. There are also the choices that get made in the meantime! Nonetheless, sooner or later, somehow, things balance out. It's like setting an alarm one day, and forgetting about it. It rings maybe 60 years later, and you have no clue why.

But you have to accept the concept of reicarnation to really talk about karma. Because, karma explains why we are all born with a different set of responses to life's conditions, with differing innate talents, even our specific genetic atmosphere, etc.

Again, cause and effect across lifetimes. That I believe. I also believe that (perhaps the only) thing that prevents the karmic principle from actually having already laid out the entire future of a human's existence, is the fact that we do choose the direction of its flow. Cause and effect is just a principle of how the pure energy of reality works. Like rhythm, that's another such principle. So are polarity, frequency, compensation, and correspondence among planes.

Why would sombody "pay" for what they do? It is built into the whole process that we are responsible for what we do. That is due to the cause and effect side of how it works. It is also due to to the choice side of how it works. It is due to both, because it can work no other way. We change the direction of casual flow with the choices we make. If we don't like our current range of choices, we seem to be in a rut. If we do not come up with some new choices, we can get bitter! Sometimes we hurt people. Oh boy, something else to have to balance out one way or the other!!! Most likely, we either work out how to atone in a manner we chose, or down the road we'll just take it as it comes, and if we even know what the heck happened it will appear to us that we hadn't actually had much choice at all. Stretch this stuff across lifetimes, and we see no connection whatsoever, be it karma, choice, or anything else!

Answer 4

If karma means that when i do good, good things will happen and vice versa.

So in actuallity when you do good things you surround your self with a positive energy which in return will eventually give you back your greatness.

When people say karma isnt real, i believe its because they dont look at the whole picture. They think "I keep doing good and nothing happens". If these people can find it in themselves to see everything as positive, nothing will be bad.

The question though is not "Is karma real?" but "When will karma side with me every time?"

Answer 5

Nope.

Do you ever notice how people answer this question with something along the lines of, "Yes, I have to believe that there is Karma/Magic/God"? It's because they're afraid to admit it; to recognize that the Universe could give a **** less about us.

They force-feed reason and purpose down their own throats with bull crap like Karma.

And if you honestly believe in such pipe-dreams, then you might as well start leaving out cookies and milk for Santa Claus too.

Now, don't imaginary friends just make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside?

Answer 6

A person's karma is decided by Judge Judy... and remember, some of her litigants she eats for lunch....it depends on what day of the week it is.
I believe that karma brought us together because I have a beautiful German Shepherd dog named Maya...the only difference between your name and her's is the spelling. Is that a coincidence, or Karma?

Answer 7

Not in "Karma" per se, but in balances and the ability
of the human mind to suggest,sub-consciously, an
equilizing action to fill up a void. I believe this is
self directed, whether the person's aware of it or
not.

Answer 8

I've seen proof of karma all too often throughout my life. Bad people can not get away with going around being bad to everyone.

Answer 9

I do believe in karma, but not in the standard perception of it. I believe that each of us incarnates with a plan. When we return to the source, we review that which we achieved and at what price. We judge our actions and a new plan is conceived. That is our karma.

Answer 10

I am a firm believer in Karma.. although I don't think it always come back the same way you put it out there.. but it does come back on you...