Every effect has a cause. Every cause has an effect. The law of Karma connects one with another and gives rise to whole chains of cause-and-effect relationships in the lives of people, families, ethnic groups and Nations. Karma is the cause of the endless cycle of birth and death, forcing again and again the human soul comes to the material world of physical form.
Every event that happens on the path is a consequence of the work of the Law of Karma. In the present we see the consequences of our past actions. And not only actions, but also words, and even thoughts.
What is a "verb" for action? The old Slavonic "verb" literally means a sound or ringing; and in another way a voice. To say something aloud in the folk tradition meant to start it. The word is the first expression of will, the first impulse of energy directed to the whole Universe. And reacting to the word, through time, the universe always gives the answer.
The word was the beginning in the biblical story of creation.
"In the beginning was the Word, and the word was with God, and the Word was God."
This line is a description of the state of pure existence, when the Law of Karma has not yet been manifested, because it has not yet been manifested. Consciousness, not split into dualities, not burdened with bindings, free from karmic burdens here rests in bliss and goodness. There is nothing manifested, there is no action and there is no choice. There is only harmony - the essence of passive being and divine splendor.
According to the theory of reincarnation, once the consciousness of every living being came out of this bright ocean of energy, and now our souls strive back to the world of the one absolute – to the source of any existence. The path of return to the source runs through the dualistic worlds of material form, where consciousness, time after time, returns to the old lessons and failed trials. And this endless cycle, generated by the Law of Karma, is called in the East Samsara-the wandering of the soul through the worlds of Maya illusions.
Karma is a wheel that rotates in two directions: it can lift to heaven and topple, and the vector of movement always depends only on the individual choice.
The law of Karma is a reward for actions, words and thoughts, but mostly for motives. After all, motives are an indicator of the true purity of any act. But who has the right to judge motives, if not their own?
Therefore, the Law of Karma is not a punishment from above, as one might think. Punishment always comes from the depths of his own essence. After all, it is the inner observer who always knows everything about a person. The inner observer is the conscience, whose voice never stops, even when we try not to hear it. Because we always know when we're doing the wrong thing. And acting against his own conscience, in consequence? we punish ourselves by rejecting the lesson and condemning ourselves to repeat the situation.
Conscience is a conductor of light. But acts committed against the appeals of conscience will one day return to the Law of Karma. Condemning overtake condemnation, humiliating-humiliation, for not rightfully taken will have to pay, the offender may be offended, the aggressor will one day turn into a persecuted.
People are connected by such numerous karmic ties. The victim and his tyrant can change places endlessly in the Samsara of the cycle of suffering, until at least one of them leaves the circle by realizing the essence of the Law of causes and effects.
Suffering in the concept of the Law of Karma is the lessons that are given to us on the way to spiritual perfection. Resentment, anger, rejection, anger are just some of the many feelings that keep the mind away from happiness. But any emotions are the result of having karma. Whether we like something too much or hate something, we create and maintain a karmic knot between the object of emotional attachment and our own consciousness.
The way of liberation from karma is in detachment. Acceptance, forgiveness, and love are the three benefactors who give healing and untie karmic bonds, opening the mind to further development and evolution.