Consequences and Karma

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Date:  Posted 6 years before Dec 01, 2018

MiBeloved 6 years ago

This is from a conversation on Linked In.  I include it here because it has an important clarification about the word karma which has changed meanings when it crossed the Atlantic and Pacific from India to the USA.

It seems that this change is permanent as karma has come into English usage with the new meaning which Westerns ascribe to it:

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Query: is "ancestral responsibility" connected to karma? Could we not be responsible for our friends as a family or the world, at large, since we are all connected?

MiBeloved's Response:

Ancestral responsibility and response for the world at large is all covered under the term karma. And by the way the actual word is phalam which means consequence.

In the West karma has come to mean what we face as consequences from act in previous lives, and it has other meanings. However in Sanskrit I have never seen the word used like that. In Sanskrit what we call karma is the result of karma, not the karma itself.

Karma comes from a root word krt which basically means to do but karma as we use it means not what we do but the consequences which face us in the future because of what we are doing now or the consequences we face now because of what we did in the past, even what we did in past lives which we have completely forgotten.

Even though we do have commitments and obligations to nearly everyone who is transmigrating on this planet, still the pressing issues are usually family related. Most of us spend the major portion of our lives fulfilling family responsibilities and even when we engage outside of the family, like in employment, the salaries derived are used for the benefit of the family.

However my point in the book sex you! is that our sexual energy comprise for the most part ancestral energy meaning ancestors from the present body. We have had other bodies, but now in this present body the ancestors of that form have priority.

Yes, there are millions of suns in the Universes as our astronomers alert us but still that does not mean that we are not specifically linked to the one over our heads. Idealism is so nice but practically speaking its value is limited.