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We can put this question into everyday street language: “How come all this pain is happening to me and not to you?” Every philosophy has grappled with this problem of universal justice. The doctrine of karma also originates with primordial man’s search for an understanding of universal justice.

Karma is neither the law of punishment nor the law of retribution!

Essentially, the doctrine of karma states that every thought, word or physical action produces physical and mental effects; beyond these, it also produces an invisible, transcendental effect. The doctrine of karma states that every action, independent of its visible effect, produces an invisible effect called proclivity. This proclivity is stored in your soul, your permanent memory banks.

Karma is preset potential energy that, under certain conditions, changes from invisible to visible energy. These manifestations are looked upon by the average human being as rewarding or as punishing. However, they are neither good nor bad, in and of themselves. They are only preset results of past actions and attitudes. In short, life becomes what life does.

Generally, the effects of any thought, word or deed are only visible on a few levels of your being. However, they affect all levels of your being, visible and invisible, long after the death of your earth body, and rebirth into a new body. This is so because the karma is held in the astral body, which lives beyond the birth and death of earth bodies.

Karma is gravity. Karma is proclivity. Karma is a blind spot. Karma is desire. It is important to say again that: Karma is not the law of retribution.

At this point, the bottom of the astral opens and Kim “falls” to earth with his five sheaths, which now create his physical earth body with all its cells and all its petals. Both are filled with his karmic desires and their permutations.

When the fifth karmic desire is grasped, Kim immediately leaves the astral. At that moment the bottom of the “astral sea” opens and the soul descends downward to earth, and encapsulates itself in five new sheaths and three new bodies. Human earth life has begun again.

1. Karma is only produced by an act of conscious willing (volition). 2. Karmic events manifest only when conditions for their ripening are at hand. 3. Your attitudes and reactions toward karmic events in turn produce new karma.

The habits of the past lives are the ghosts of the past who want to live again.

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The Laws of Karma by Goswami Kriyananda presents key insights from the Yoga tradition. The 10 passages above capture the essential teachings.

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Key Passages: Highlights 1, 3, and 10 are particularly representative.

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