Karma Effect – The Consequences of Past Acts
Your past actions have a present effect on your life, and your current actions have a future impact—”As you sow, so shall you reap,” also known as the law of cause and effect or the karma effect. The Eastern traditions of yoga, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Taoism use the term “karma,” which is often associated with fate.
Karma comes from the Sanskrit word kri, which means to do or act. It includes everything we say, do, and even think. The karma effect dictates that we all face the consequences of past acts. Our past and present actions are stored in subconscious memory, thus creating karma that will be realized in the future. Knowing the law of karma helps us direct our free will and decision-making power to make positive changes and live better lives.
The Law of The Karma Effect
Karma means action or deed and is the universal law of cause and effect. A good intention and a good deed will create good karma and a positive future, while bad intentions and evil deeds will trigger lousy karma and a negative future. Creating good karma is the way to overcome the effects of bad karma, as it is impossible to erase it. The effects of karma originate from the cause, so it is necessary to balance them out. During this process, the person to whom the karma relates will experience suffering to purify their desires and learn.
Karma has no menu; you get served what you deserve
If the karmic results are not reversed, the individual will be reborn and face the same karmic lesson again. Remember that the law of karma effect operates based on the principle of action and reaction. People often confuse this law with the Western concept of sin and punishment; however, they differ. But in the law of karma, there is no concept of guilt or condemnation. Therefore, it is an objective, logical system of cause and effect.
No higher power or god punishes or rewards us. Still, only our ignorance, fears, uncontrolled desires, and feelings lead us to consequences that are not easy for us to accept and to results that we consider punishment. The law of karma is immutable, all-encompassing, precise, and accurate. It operates effectively and justly. Hence, it does not require a supervision system. It is a universal law to which everything in nature is subject, each one of us. There are no exceptions, protections, or corruptions.
The Butterfly Effect
Like gravity, karma is always in full potency, even when people don’t realize it. The soul is eternal and unborn, but due to false ego and illusion, it accepts a material body. A living being takes birth in human form after a gradual evolution in “samsara”—the cycle of birth and death through 8,000,000 types of life. Once given a human body endowed with intelligence and free will, it is fully responsible for all its actions.
Be aware that every decision you make impacts others, affecting collective karma. The universe is a pulsation of energy in which every vibration, even the slightest, has an effect. The karmic law is comprehensive, so according to it, the ‘butterfly effect’ really applies. When a butterfly flaps its wings on one side of the world, it can cause a hurricane on the other side of the world. Our personal life experiences and choices are inextricably intertwined with the whole.
The Principle of Karma Effect
When we think a little about this story, we can see one of the crucial principles of karma, which is accepting the knowledge that our thoughts and actions have an effect that transforms the world and ourselves. So, we build and create our world with our thoughts and actions. It is precisely the knowledge that every action has a consequence that encourages us to change, develop, and improve. Therefore, in this sense, karma is necessary to drive change and progress.
How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours
Realizing that our past actions have led to this moment can be scary because we can’t shift the responsibility onto someone else. A saying goes, “If you want to know what you did in the past, look at how your life is now. If you want to know what kind of person you will be in the future, look at what you are doing now!”. When we understand and accept the principle of karma, we can feel the enormous power that we have. It is the power to make good karma.
The Present Moment
There is no greater power in the world than the proper action in the present moment. By knowing the laws of karma, we recognize how important it is to pay attention to the present moment and to act thoughtfully and wisely. We have a choice at any moment. It often seems to us that it is not so. We may not be able to change our current circumstances drastically, but every thought, every small decision, and every type of behavior has a much greater meaning than it seems to us.
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Even when things are not as we would like them to be in the present moment, the law of karma teaches us that every positive effort we make must inevitably bring good results and help us get closer to what we want. The moment in which we decide is the most crucial moment in which we manage our fate. However, it is essential to recognize its power because it is a moment in which we can create good karma.
Types of Karma
Analyzing the Vedas scriptures, we can conclude that they describe two basic types of karma: Sanchita and Kriyamana.
Sanchita karma is the subconscious karma from past lives. This karma represents the total karma accumulated in our past lives, including the karma we have collected through our actions in the current incarnation. This type of karma is not within our sphere of influence since our past courses of action have already shaped it. These are wrapped up but also unfinished excellent and harmful actions from previous lives, which must be done and appear in this life as desires – in other words, “samskaras.”
What is done cannot be undone, but one can prevent it from happening again
Moreover, karmic astrology and numerology reveal the effects of karma from past lives or inherited karma and explain why certain things happen to us. It discovers causes based on one’s parts in previous lives. The soul acquires maturity through reincarnations and numerous worldly–material experiences. The ultimate goal is to complete purification and reach higher spiritual levels without the challenges lurking in the earthly life.
Kriyamana Karma
Kriyamana karma is the conscious karma that we are creating now. This karma represents our decisions and abilities to act out of our free will and independence. Our subconscious records and stores everything we do as a memory code. This code represents the cause of our successes or failures, happy or unhappy loves and marriages, poverty or wealth, physical and mental happiness or suffering, sickness or health. Activating the code brings a set of different circumstances that can represent both happiness and misfortune for us.
So, depending on how we act, we can significantly influence the kriyamana karma. If the way we work, that is, kriyamana karma, in the current embodiment, favorably affects our environment and our relationships and interactions in this life, then such a way of acting will affect the very positive results that our future karma will bring us. Such positive results can manifest by being born into a well-to-do family, having a higher education, being healthy, or having a beautiful physical appearance.
The Subgroups of Karma
There are three subgroups of the two types of karma:
- Dridha karma – a solid, rigid, and unchanging karma
- Dridha-adridha karma – medium strength karma
- Adridha karma – soft and changeable karma
Dridha Karma is associated with rigid karma, hard-to-change karma. It appears in horoscopes/numeroscopes, where many indicators exist for a specific situation. The greater the number of good or evil indications in a particular area of the horoscope/numeroscope, the more obvious its results will become.
Dridha-Adridha karma represents medium–changing karma. This type of karma occurs in horoscopes/numeroscopes, where only some indicators confirm a specific situation or event. Concentrated application of creative will can change this karma, whether good or bad, but it requires considerable effort.
Adridha Karma represents variable karma that gives varying results that are easily changed. When there are no longer the same indicators of a specific situation or event in the horoscope/numeroscope, we are talking about this type of karma. This karma is the easiest to change, and often, it is only necessary to become aware of the areas of life that cause us problems and make specific changes in them that will improve the situation.
The Purpose of Life is to Live Through Karma
Every human carries their karma and the consequences of past acts, which can be positive or negative. Things in life don’t happen by chance. We are not born on Earth to survive or enjoy life; we are here to live out our karma, too. Various religions that do not accept karma and reincarnation as an integral part of every human life have persuaded most people in the West not to believe in the karma effect. As a result, they do not understand this concept at all.
The karma a person has to fulfill in this life can be seen through astrology or numerology immediately after birth
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