Friday, May 20, 2016

Karma by Hilarion


Could you please give a definition of what you mean when you use the word "karma?"

Hilarion: The question which has been asked about karma has largely assumed karma to be negative karma, that is, karma which results from actions taken which were against the Creators Laws. (Most people think of karma in this way). This is the reason why we have also taken the same point of view in our books. More broadly, however, karma simply means the law of cause and effect and where the actions taken by an individual are nurturing and supportive of others, so the karma which is accumulated is of the same vibration and comes back to lighten the life and the lives which that individual will be living subsequently.

Turning to the negative kind of karma, we may explain by saying that every action which a human being undertakes is in a sense, always with that individual as if it were adhered to him. As such, if these actions were negative, if they resulted in pain or distress to another creature of any kind, they act as a literal hindrance for the harming soul, for it is literally a burden which the soul carries about. In order to cut away from the soul that negative or dark complex which resulted from the action, it is necessary normally for the soul to pass through an equivalent episode of pain or difficulty. If that can be brought about in the same life or a subsequent one, then the negative karmic consequences of the original act can be removed.

** From the book, "More Answers," by Hilarion/ Maurice Cooke