More on the topic of "The Theory of Karma"!!!

More on the topic of "The Theory of Karma"

The "Theory of Karma" is such an interesting topic, don't you think? It really get's one to put on their thinking cap -- unless of course you are ready to blindly follow what is handed down to you from over the centuries gone by.

Why is it that most of us just take what is passed down to us as Gospel Truth, why don't we try and analyze it ourselves and see if it really makes sense? Whether it is religion or religious rituals or the like, most people just seem to accept that whatever they have been taught is what is the truth. They could be the most educated people in the world but when it comes to religion they just become followers without proof or questioning what it is that they are following.

To me the Theory of Karma is just hogwash. Because people cannot find an answer for the disparity in people's lives so they pass it off as our karams from the last life. I ask you, just a couple of questions.

1. Do you believe that God exists?

2. Do you believe that God is all good and just?

If your answers to these questions is "yes" then I say to you that if God exists (and I for one definitely believe that He/She does) and if God is all good and just; then, in my opinion God would never punish or reward us in this life for what we may have done or not done in our last life. Because justice demands that a person knows what he/she is being rewarded or punished for. I believe that God is all good and just and that the Theory of Karma is warped as it really goes against the grain of God being all just, because 99.9999999999% of us have not one iota of recollection as to what happened in our past lives, so God would not punish us in this life for things we cannot even remember - especially as God is not there to tell us what we are being rewarded or punished for.

Now, this is my reasoning for why some good people suffer so much in life and others who are quite evidently bad. roller-coaster through life without much upheaval or suffering in their lives.

In my opinion each soul that descends on Earth goes through a kind of a filtration process. Just as in life in any field of work, you will find large numbers of people on the bottom rung of the professional ladder, and as you climb up the ladder - you find fewer and fewer people out there. Then you get to the very top of the ladder and you find just a very limited few who ever reach the top.

So, too, I feel that all souls that come on earth go through a similar filtration process. The harder a person's life and the more sorrow they see, the closer they are to the top. It is here that God's filtration process is working hard to decifer who deserves to climb further and further up the ladder of goodness, till they become so good and pure (like Mother Teresa) that they are actually fit to enter the Kingdom of Heaven and receive "Antim Moksh" or "Eternal Salvation".

So many people die in war-torn countries after having lived and died horrendous lives, I believe these people are closest to God and that is why they are having such a tough time. God is testing them to see if even through adversity they are still leading good lives. After all it is only the good that ever receive "Antim Moksh".

Please feel free to leave your comments regarding this issue even if you totally oppose my thoughts.:)

The Theory of Karma - is it right or not?

It's strange, but, although a large percentage of us humans are educated and intelligent people - we still seem to have not much thinking power of our own. Some of us blindly follow, rituals, religious beliefs and philosophies that have been passed down through the ages - but, in my opinion anyway some of them are flawed. One such theory that I cannot seem to digest is The Theory of Karma. I maybe totally off the bat and you may think that I am totally crazy, but these are my thoughts anyway and I would like to put them before you. Please feel free to comment in anyway you wish. I would love to hear your theories on this controversial Theory of Karma.

In simple terms, the Theory of Karma says that whether we are happy or unhappy, rich or poor, sick or in perfect health, etc. is all due to our past life's deeds. If we were good in the past life and performed good deeds, we are born in rich families and rich countries and likewise if we are poor and miserable - we must have performed bad deeds in our past life, for which we are being punished in this life.

In fact, I actually had one very wealthy relative tell me while she was talking to me that it was her karmas in the last life which made her rich in this life - and I thought to myself - if God was so happy with you, why did he punish you by taking away your husband when he was still a young man - even though you both were so happy together. Seems to me though, that her yardstick for measuring her goodness in her past life was money. I would have thought that the fact that her husband had been taken from her so young, so tragically might have been construed as some bad karmas from her past life - but no money was the deciding factory. Strange, but then it's a strange world out there anyway!

I have had many well-meaning friends try and ram this undigestable (to me anyway) Theory of Karma down my throat. However, it just does not go down well with me. My main objection to it is simple. In my opinion God is all good and all just. And a just God would never punish me or anyone else in this life for something that I did in the last life, but cannot remember and will never remember. Just as you don't punish someone for something they have done unless it can be proven that they have done it - so too in my humble opinion - God would never punish me for something I cannot possibly remember. After all if I cannot remember it how can I accept punishment for it. A just God - and God is just, so I believe - would never do that to any of us.

I have thought about this at length, because I told you I don't believe in the Theory of Karma as the world sees it. I have my own Theory of Karma - warped though you might think it to be - in my mind it makes perfect sense.

My Theory of Karma is that we human beings are souls being recycled constantly, life-time after life-time. And, in these life-times our souls go through a rigorous filtration process as they seek "antim moksh" or "eternal salvation" Only the purest of pure souls get "antim moksh" (and as little children we used to talk about when we die we become a star in the sky - I would like to think that this is true and that someday, many life-times from now when my soul has been purified to the hilt and climbed up to the top of the ladder of filtration of souls - I too will reach that level when my soul will no longer be recycled, but will stay in the Kingdom of Heaven - a bright and shining star looking down upon the world as Mother Theresa probably is at the moment).

So how does this filtration take place and why is there so much disparity between one soul and the next. Why is one born in war-torn countries, or lands where famine is taking place, or in a murderer's home, etc. After all the harder a person's life is the more chances that they will take the easy way out and do wrong things in order to get what it is they are after.

In my opinion, it's like this. Just as we have a CEO in a business, who normally is someone who has worked his way up the ladder in his job situation - and is there at the top because he was the best - so too, there is a rough filtration process that God puts us through all our lives. And depending on how we accept and deal with the challenges He/She throws in our way - we either rise or fall down the ladder. Those people who have miserable lives, but still make the most of their life and live it well, without doing anything to harm or hurt others they go up a rung of the ladder in each life-time till they reach the very top (if they ever get there). And the harder their life is on earth the closer they are to the top. It's always hardest at the top of everything worthwhile, is'nt it?

We are born where we are born because that is where we are on the ladder leading towards "eternal salvation". So, in my thinking because we are rich and have a good, healthy and happy life - it does not indicate that we have won God's favour and so are being bestowed with these luxuries. On the contrary, in my opinion, those who have a miserable life of poverty, hunger and disability, etc. are probably on a higher rung of the ladder towards "eternal salvation" than we are. And that is why their test in life is far harder than ours. Just as with each level of education, the exams get harder and fewer people reach there - so too with the filtration process, the tests get harder (hence all those born in poverty and misery as opposed to those born in healthy, happy homes) and only those souls who still lead exemplary lives despite their misery go higher up in the ladder till finally they reach levels of a saint and make their exit from this world - to the world above.:)

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