By: M. K. Bedsole THE LAW OF KARMA© Karma is an immutable law. It can only be thwarted by another law, a gift from God, the Law of God's Grace. Karma is a Hindu word, a Sanskrit word, and means that the way we choose to live our lives and the choices we make determines what happens to us, in our future. Jesus Christ taught it over and over. Do unto others what you would want done unto you. He taught it again with "whatsoever you sow, so shall you also reap". Almost every major religion in the world is monotheistic (One God). We are all worshipping the same God, we just know Him by different names. He made us all, and we are all a part of Him. We put ourselves in the same boat. As human souls we are all in the same boat, here on Earth School. Every major religion that I know of has and uses the Golden Rule, or a variation thereof. Do unto other what you would have them do unto you. Have you ever thought about how important this simple law is? If you murder someone, you or someone close to you will be murdered. If you rape someone you or someone close to you will also be raped. If you verbally abuse someone you or someone close to you will be verbally abused. If you strike someone, you or someone close to you shall also be struck. It's really a law of perfection, a law of cause and effect, a law of responsibility and justice. If you do a wrong and that wrong comes back to you or a loved one, then you, from having suffered from that causal action, will know how it feels first hand and will be reluctant to perpetrate it on someone else again, perhaps, having experienced first hand its bad effects, too. A case in point: I have a friend in another city that used to work as a policeman. One of the bad things about being a policeman is that it forces one to see the very worse of human nature, and it can make one hardened and callous. After a time, he almost lost his ability to see people who commit awful crimes as human beings, too. He once said he and several fellow officers stopped a known, past convicted drug user, abuser, and dealer. He said a fellow policeman was so frustrated when they found no drugs in the car, that the fellow policeman planted a small bag of cocaine in it, and the driver they stopped was arrested and charged. However, when it came time to go to trial, my friend discovered that the arrestee would get a life sentence if convicted, under the three strikes you are out law. My friend's conscience began to weigh on him so heavily that he told his fellow policemen that he could not go along with their testimony, and was going to have to go to the judge and tell him what really happened. His fellow policemen got very, very angry with him, and called him all manner of names, and threatened him. He stuck to his convictions, however, and the court case was thrown out. My friend wanted to know, if he did the right thing? My answer to him was to tell him of the Law of Karma, which you and I live under and are powerless to change. I told him that it was my belief that had he so falsely testified and had the man been sent to prison for life, and served out that sentence for the rest of his natural days, that the immutable law would have recycled around and one day have came back to settle on him, or a close loved one. I told him that it was my belief that one day he would have had to serve a life sentence himself or a loved one of his, and it would have been based on a conviction from false testimony having been given against him, had he gone through with his original intent. He was shocked almost senseless. It's heavy choices we are forced to make, while living on Earth School. Conversely, Karma works for our ultimate good, too. If one gives out good, that person receives good back. When you get to the point where you give out nothing but good, and eventually you will reap nothing but good. At that point you will have only good and blessings coming into your life. Sound like Divine Bliss? What many of us do not realize, because it is unseen, is that this law works in nature, too. If we throw a stone into a pond we see the concentric circles moving outward, until they hit the shore. What we do not see is that those same concentric circles of energy hit the shore and bounce back and return along the bottom of the pond until they reach the stone, where they return to the source from whence they came… ESSAY INDEX