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17 KARMA
Karma is a metaphor that tries to make us believe that we must
balance every negative act we commit.
Karma is an attempt to sort out the reasons why things happen to
us. "Why am I the one who experienced this?" is the riddle Karma
attempts to solve.
Karma generally defines a belief system whereby our sins of the
flesh, our mortal shortcomings in the material world, must be accounted
for. We must be killed if we kill, to be very simplistic.
Karma allows a killer to avoid being killed if, by grace, he or
she comes to truly understand what he or she has done, so that it
is not necessary to be killed in order to balance the scales of
Karma.
Karma is just another one of our belief systems in which we try
to project into the mind of God a way in which we can enter into
God's presence.
The truth is that when one kills, he or she is sometimes punished
by society, and that is as it should be. It is the law of most societies
that to kill one of your own is punishable.
The laws of a society are the laws created by the members of that
society. If you break those laws, you must pay the defined punishment
for your transgressions. This is necessary for the preservation
of society but it is certainly not necessary for the continuation
of the Infinite Potential.
The Infinite Potential does not adhere to society's rules. If a
man is killed, it does not mean that the killing is punishable in
the eyes of God. It is possible that both the killer and the killed
have agreed to come into this reality for the purpose of staging
a death in order to help teach others a lesson by their act; and
not necessarily to balance the scales of Karma
because their roles were reversed in some prior lifetime.
Infinity is not interested in keeping an account of every transgression
of
each individual soul. The soul is its own scorekeeper. Each soul
is its own infinite universe. Each is at one with God. Each is at
one with each other. And each soul is unfolding as it should.
Lastly, and most importantly, how can we possibly know if any act
is one of balancing Karma or one of creating Karma?
Inner peace comes when we realize that it is impossible to live
in this
physical reality without creating negative acts at every moment.
Not sharing our food while someone goes without food anywhere on
the earth is a negative act.
Inner peace comes in knowing that we can never balance Karma and
that
we do not need to concern ourselves with it because we are at one
with God no matter what we do. We cannot separate ourselves from
God even if we wanted to.
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