Are Some Of Us Victims Of Our Karma?
Judy Ramsook
October 14, 2005
If some one does something to hurt one of us, some forgive the person who caused such injury whether that injury is emotional or physical, and some secretly hope that he/she receives a similar fate as he/she progresses through life.
And now NBC has made a sitcom, ‘My Name Is Earl’ about the subject matter which some among us believe to determine one’s fate and or successes and failures in life, what is that something? Karma.
According to www.askoxford.com Karma, a Sanskrit word that means action or effect, is used in some Hindu and Buddhist beliefs to allude to a principle by which a person’s actions in this world determine his/her fate that awaits him/her after death.
That is, if one happens to believe in that sort of thing and also in the existence of past/ future lives.
And with that said, if the persons among us who share a belief in this Karma, does that mean that they are victims of their Karma? It’s also commonly known as that familiar phrase, ‘what goes around comes around.’
If, for example as shown on the NBC sitcom, My Name Is Earl, one does a series of bad deeds in life, does that mean that individual has to return where the wrong deed was committed, within reason of course, in an attempt to set things right?
That is of course if that individual thinks by setting things right will place him/her on the road to a better life.
What if some one is totally unaware of this thing known as Karma, and goes along with his/her life committing wrong deeds or not?
Will that also mean that this individual will have to keep failing or succeeding depending on whether his/her deeds were good or bad.
If the concept of the past life principle is one that is deemed true, does that also mean that the person who has committed wrong deeds in this present life will have to keep returning in future lives in an attempt to set things right? And what about those persons who achieve success no matter what comes their way?
For Karma can be used in that way as well for the good too. If one did good deeds in a past life, then success will follow him/her in this or the next one, providing of course that the individual believes in the Karma/Past Lives concept, for there are many sceptics among us who might say all of that is not true.
Adding that this Karma concept was devised as a method to keep humans who believe in such a thing in line or on good behaviour.
Furthermore instilling fear in those who believe in the Karma/Past Life principle so that they will be encouraged to keep their bad deeds to a minimum.
But whether or not one believes in the Karma principle, it is out there for the ones who do, and who knows what or who those believers may have been in a past life and who they will become in future ones. All in the name of Karma, good deeds or not.
And now NBC has made a sitcom, ‘My Name Is Earl’ about the subject matter which some among us believe to determine one’s fate and or successes and failures in life, what is that something? Karma.
According to www.askoxford.com Karma, a Sanskrit word that means action or effect, is used in some Hindu and Buddhist beliefs to allude to a principle by which a person’s actions in this world determine his/her fate that awaits him/her after death.
That is, if one happens to believe in that sort of thing and also in the existence of past/ future lives.
And with that said, if the persons among us who share a belief in this Karma, does that mean that they are victims of their Karma? It’s also commonly known as that familiar phrase, ‘what goes around comes around.’
If, for example as shown on the NBC sitcom, My Name Is Earl, one does a series of bad deeds in life, does that mean that individual has to return where the wrong deed was committed, within reason of course, in an attempt to set things right?
That is of course if that individual thinks by setting things right will place him/her on the road to a better life.
What if some one is totally unaware of this thing known as Karma, and goes along with his/her life committing wrong deeds or not?
Will that also mean that this individual will have to keep failing or succeeding depending on whether his/her deeds were good or bad.
If the concept of the past life principle is one that is deemed true, does that also mean that the person who has committed wrong deeds in this present life will have to keep returning in future lives in an attempt to set things right? And what about those persons who achieve success no matter what comes their way?
For Karma can be used in that way as well for the good too. If one did good deeds in a past life, then success will follow him/her in this or the next one, providing of course that the individual believes in the Karma/Past Lives concept, for there are many sceptics among us who might say all of that is not true.
Adding that this Karma concept was devised as a method to keep humans who believe in such a thing in line or on good behaviour.
Furthermore instilling fear in those who believe in the Karma/Past Life principle so that they will be encouraged to keep their bad deeds to a minimum.
But whether or not one believes in the Karma principle, it is out there for the ones who do, and who knows what or who those believers may have been in a past life and who they will become in future ones. All in the name of Karma, good deeds or not.
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