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Is Karma real?
@ogb saidI have always felt that if Karma is real then it follows that reincarnation is also real .
Is Karma real?
@ogb saidsome folks see karma as retribution for dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Is Karma real?
@caissad4 saidNot sure that I understand the connection between Karma and re-incarnation.. Please explain...TY
I have always felt that if Karma is real then it follows that reincarnation is also real .
@ogb saidKarma is balance for effects created .
Not sure that I understand the connection between Karma and re-incarnation.. Please explain...TY
@ogb said'Karma" as it's commonly used today is the product of a series of misunderstandings of the original concept of karma. As it is commonly used today, "karma" is a lot of nonsense.
Is Karma real?
@thinkofone saidMy understanding is if you do something impolite or rude, you'll "get" bad karma. Or when you do something nice for someone, you'll "get" good Karma..I don't know where karma comes from..... the cosmos?
'Karma" as it's commonly used today is the product of a series of misunderstandings of the original concept of karma.
@ogb saidFrom what I gather, the original concept of karma was stated in the following:
My understanding is if you do something impolite or rude, you'll "get" bad karma. Or when you do something nice for someone, you'll "get" good Karma..I don't know where karma comes from..... the cosmos?
@thinkofone saidThis concept exists in all the Holy Books.
From what I gather, the original concept of karma was stated in the following:
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 4.4.5-6
Now as a man is like this or like that,
according as he acts and according as he behaves, so will he be:
a man of good acts will become good, a man of bad acts, bad.
He becomes pure by pure deeds, bad by bad deeds.
And here they say that a person consi ...[text shortened]... doesn't really make sense. From what I gather, the concept of reincarnation was also tied into this.
@rajk999 said“If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me. For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it; but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it."
This concept exists in all the Holy Books.
@rajk999 saidIndeed.
This concept exists in all the Holy Books.
@ghost-of-a-duke saidInterestingly Paul continues
Indeed.
'For whatever a man sows, this he will also reap.' (Galatians 6:7)
@ogb saidHe's real cuz he is my neighbor Joe Karma.
Is Karma real?