You know, there are a whole lot of people who use words incorrectly day after day, year in and year out. Now what happens with so many of the words that are indeed used incorrectly is that they eventually get accepted as the norm in every day circles around the globe. One such word is "karma" which is used today worldwide by a whole lot of people. For example, when someone does something that doesn't turn out right, someone will in all probability say that's karma, meaning of course that what just happened to you which was quite painful, physically or perhaps emotionally was the result of something which you did in the past.
Well my friend, that's partially correct. As all of my regular readers will know, I write a whole lot in these articles about a universal law which governs the universe and everything in it, including our individual lives, the law of cause and effect. Now this universal law that Emerson referred to as the law of laws states, that what we put out eventually comes back to us, and my friend, the operative word here is eventually. So, rather than say to a person when something bad or unpleasant happens to them, that's karma, to be perfectly correct, we should say that's cause and effect in operation.
So we get back to the question posed by the title of this article, what is karma, and the correct answer to that question is that karma is the operation of cause and effect carried over into other lifetimes. So it actually means, you're being punished today for something you did in another life.
Yes indeed, when one talks about karma, one needs to fully understand the belief of many people worldwide in reincarnation. So maybe it would appear to the uninitiated that a person has gotten away with a whole lot of wrong during this lifetime, however, they will have to pay for their sins, if not in this lifetime, most definitely in another lifetime -- that's what karma is.
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