Authors Details: Ellen A Mogensen
Ellen A Mogensen is a holistic counsellor
The Author's Website <http://www.healpastlives.com/>
We are Karma Chameleons. While on Earth, you are living in the worlds of
reincarnation and karma. Believe it or not, karma begins & ends with
love. Karma begins to propel you as Soul on a personal journey through
the universe. Karma ends when you have perfected yourself in your
ability to love.
So What is Karma? As Soul you are eternal. You have past, present, and
future lives. To grow in love, joy, and awareness, you reincarnate into
a series of physical bodies to experience different existences. You have
been or will be both sexes and all races, religions, and ethnic types
throughout many lifetimes
Karma Defined: Karma means that "as you sow, so also shall you reap" in
this and other lifetimes until you understand the complete consequences
of all your actions. Karma is the principle of cause and effect, action
and reaction, total cosmic justice and personal responsibility.
The 4 Different "Flavors" of Karma:
There are 4 different types of karma that you are always working on:
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* Sanchita Karma: the accumulated result of all your actions from
all your past lifetimes. This is your total cosmic debt. Every moment of
every day either you are adding to it or you are reducing this cosmic
debt. * Prarabdha Karma: the portion of your "sanchita" karma being
worked on in the present life. If you work down your agreed upon debt in
this lifetime, then more past debts surface to be worked on. * Agami
Karma: the portion of actions in the present life that add to your
"sanchita" karma. If you fail to work off your debt, then more debts are
added to "sanchita" karma and are sent to future lives. * Kriyamana
Karma: daily, instant karma created in this life that is worked off
immediately. These are debts that are created and worked off - ie. you
do wrong, you get caught and you spend time in jail
"Resistance is Futile": As Soul, you experience a constant cycle of
births and deaths into a series of bodies until you have learned all the
spiritual lessons that the totality of all experiences have to teach
you. Until you have learned, you will find that "resistance" to the
rules of karma is "futile".
The Rules of Karma Governing Life on Earth
#1: KARMA TEACHES BY EXPERIENCE AND NOT TO PUNISH
Although it may often "feel" like punishment, the purpose of karma is to
teach not to punish. Often the way we learn "the best" is to endure the
same type of suffering that we have inflicted on others. For example, I
remember little of my life as a City Commander in ancient Constantinople
where I killed many without mercy, often with little justification. Yet,
I remember vividly the life where I repaid that karma by being
slaughtered by an Indian during the Martin's Hundred massacre. Believe
me, I learned the lesson of mercy in the final terrifying moments of the
massacre.
#2: WE ARE ALL HERE TO LEARN LESSONS TAUGHT BY KARMA
We are all here to learn lessons as "spiritual beings in human form".
These lessons are designed to help us grow into greater levels of love,
joy, and awareness. They teach us to "choose love at every moment", to
"forgive everyone, everything", and to "live happy". Where we do not
choose love, show forgiveness, teach tolerance, or display compassion,
karma intervenes to put us back on the path of these lessons. Quite
simply, the only way to achieve a state of karmic balance is to be love.
#3: WE "FORGET" ABOUT KARMA TO SEE IF WE HAVE LEARNED
Before we came, we agreed to put ourself in the path of all that is we
needed to learn. Once we got here, we agreed to "forget" this. The
purpose of "forgetting" is to keep us from being overwhelmed by the
totality of our past while making sure that we have really learned our
lessons. For example, having been a General in many lifetimes, I tended
to treat others in a domineering manner. In this life, I put myself into
my situations where humility would have served me better than being "the
dictatorial General". Only when I overcame this "problem" and learned my
lesson did I understand why I had put myself into those karmic places.
#4: KARMA IS IMPERSONAL, LOGICAL, AND PREDICTABLE
Karma gives you the opportunity at every moment to become open to
greater levels of love and compassion. It operates impersonally:
applying to everyone, all the time, no exceptions. It is very logical:
what you sow is what you reap in exact and precise measure. Karma is as
predictable as the laws of gravity: what is done to you is the net
result of what you have done to others.
#5: KARMA IS PERFECTLY FAIR AND CREATES TOTAL JUSTICE
For example, there are no "innocent" people in prison, they are there
for a reason. If they appear "innocent" in this life, it is because they
were "guilty" in a past life and "got away with it". The "innocent" feel
"cheated" now because they cannot see the cause of this life was the
effect of a past life when they were "guilty".
#6: KARMA MAKES US LINK OUR ACTIONS WITH THEIR RESULTS
The cause of this life is always the effect of a past life(s). The goal
of karma is to ensure that we link our actions (the cause) with their
results (the effect). "It is the loving God which helps each Soul
develop it's highest spiritual potential through experience." It is our
experience which teaches us the Law of Love.
#7: KARMA TEACHES US TOTALLY RESPONSIBILITY
The goal of karma is to give you all the experiences that you need to
evolve into greater levels of love, joy, awareness, and responsibility.
Karma teaches that you are totally responsible for the circumstances of
your life. Karma is like "training wheels". They keep you on the
straight and narrow until you have mastered your vehicle and can ride
freely on your own.
#8: KARMA TEACHES US LOVE AND COMPASSION FOR ALL
"See that you are at the center of the universe... Accept all things as
being part of you... When you perceive that an act done to another is
done to yourself... you understand the great truth." Tolerance opens the
door to compassion and love.
#9: KARMA DRIVES US TO WHOLENESS AND UNITY WITH LIFE
Karma drives us from oneness to wholeness to unity with life. Karma
forces us to look beyond ourselves (oneness) so that we can see
ourselves as we truly are (wholeness or Self Realization). Once we truly
understand ourselves, we can see our divinity (God Realization) and our
unity with all life.
#10: KARMA DRIVES US TO SERVICE AND THEN TO LOVE
Karma drives us to service. Service - co-workership with God - is the
ulitmate expression of love. Love means service: service is your choice.
Once you accept total responsibility for your life, you see yourself as
Soul in service to life. Once you do, you become a fully realized
co-worker with God.
#11: UNDERSTANDING KARMA IS THE KEY TO HARMONY
"Belief in karma ought to make the life pure, strong, serene, and glad.
Only our own deeds can hinder us; only our own will can fetter us. Once
let us recognize this truth, and our liberation has struck. Nature
cannot enslave the Soul that by wisdom has gained power and uses both in
love."
#12: FOR ANY QUESTION, LOVE IS ALWAYS THE ANSWER
Karma shows us that for any question love is the answer. "Love is our
birthplace, our final refuge, and our reason for being. If we recognize
that compassion and love are the ultimate destination of our journey,
the heart of the universe responds."
