One thing that can help people put this spiritual concept in perspective is that you have chosen your own destiny. When you were born, your soul assumes a body, which it was able to pick and choose from different lifetimes and karmas. Essentially, your soul uses its past life learnings to choose and create the life you are currently living. It knows your past, present, and future. It knows everything. So, what can you do?
You can reduce the intensity of the negative karma you have by setting your intention very clearly and putting an action in motion targeted toward the negative karma. People dismissively say "it's my karma," suggesting that their destiny or fate is merely the luck or bad fortune of the draw. This use of the term suggests a lack of personal power or responsibility for being at both the cause and the effect of what occurs in one's life. Using the phrase "it's my karma" suggests victimhood, and karma is anything but victimhood.
In Christianity, according to the American Heritage Dictionary, the term "sin" is commonly defined as missing the mark through "deliberate disobedience to the known will of God. Thus, "karma" is not what we commonly think of as "good" or "bad" fortune, but rather the causal responsibility for those results. This deeper understanding of karma rests upon our essential identity as souls -- spiritual beings who are animated by a vital and divine force. As souls we are spiritually held accountable for what we create, promote, and allow in our lives.
Karma is not physical, it is spiritual, and we carry karma forward through time within a given lifetime or, as some believe, from one lifetime until the next. Once accrued, the balancing action of karma plays out on the stage of our everyday lives through our bodies, thoughts, feelings, relationships, circumstances, and experiences. The name of the game of life is to pay off our karmic debts rather than accruing new ones so we can come to know ourselves and others as divine beings and enter into the consciousness of God.
Just as gravity is a law of the physical world, so is karma a law of the spiritual world. We are held responsible for our actions and, more precisely, for the intention of our actions.
This responsibility exists within the context of an individual soul's relationship with God. When one deliberately disobeys the will of God, karma is accrued.
It is the intent of one's actions that generates karma. All major religions have some version of the seven deadly sins to caution followers in avoiding yielding to desires, illusions, and choices that take us away from the will of God.
When we change who and what we are within our hearts, our lives follow suit and change too. We mirror what surrounds us, and what surrounds us mirrors us; this is a Universal Truth.
The Law of Connection The smallest or seemingly least important of things must be done because everything in the Universe is connected. Each step leads to the next step, and so forth and so on. Someone must do the initial work to get a job done.
Neither the first step nor the last are of greater significance. They are both needed to accomplish the task. Past, Present, and Future are all connected. The Law of Focus One cannot think of two things at the same time. If our focus is on Spiritual Values, it is not possible for us to have lower thoughts like greed or anger. Old thoughts, old patterns of behavior, and old dreams prevent us from having new ones.
Until the sanchita karma is zeroed out, the soul keeps rebirthing. Prarabhda is the karma that you are working with beginning at birth. Kriyamana is karma from actions in your current life. Lastly, agami karma is the sum of the merits and demerits in this life that will be added to the sanchita karma. Reincarnation gives the opportunity to correct karma.
Like retaking the SAT for a better score. As another example of how karma works, imagine that you get into an accident while driving a car. The accident is a result of your prarabhda karma and your accumulated sanchita karma. If you go to the emergency room for medical attention, that is your kriyamana karma.
If you then take a defensive driving course to develop better driving habits, that is your agami karma.
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