QUESTION:

Another question on karma. It seems readers are never satisfied with enough on this subject. This from R.H., Orlando, Florida, who writes: “Awareness often mentions “good karma.” This is a subject that would make a good feature presentation in a future issue. Can good karma offset bad karma generally, or only on specific basis? If a person chooses a lifetime of positive service to others, can non-associated negative karma be erased? Can a person, spirit, choose a lifetime reaping good karma as a kind of respite from a backlog of bad karma, or must the karma be mixed?”

COSMIC AWARENESS:

This Awareness indicates that the action of doing good work for others, producing good karma, can indeed help to offset a moment or actions of a negative karma. This Awareness indicates that an entity having a lifetime of negative karma who comes back in future lifetimes and does good for others will go far in helping to work off and eliminate the negative karma. This Awareness indicates in other words, one does not necessarily have to face the same kind of negative experiences that one caused, if one can find a way of doing good for others. This Awareness indicates however, that there is often a tendency to experience a similar negative karma if an entity does not feel remorse for that negative action that caused the negative karma. In other words, if an entity violates another and does not feel any sense of remorse, then the entity may experience at some time in one life or the next a similar situation in which he or she is the victim of the same kind of negative event as he or she had dished out to others.

This Awareness indicates that the concept of remorse is extremely important, for remorse is the same as an expression of regret or sorrow at one’s actions in harming another. This Awareness indicates in many cases wherein an entity feels true remorse, there will be that grace that substitutes for karma and helps the entity to go beyond the need for karmic repercussion. This Awareness indicates that generally, the remorse will lead the entity into doing something for others. For example, if one does something in error and one feels the need to make up to the entity who was harmed, but there is no way by which this could be done, perhaps the entity has moved away and no address is known, or perhaps the entity has passed on to another plane, and you cannot make it up to that entity; if you can do something of service for others, in a kind of dedication to the entity whom you may have wronged, this can help to balance out any negative karma.

The Law of Grace Can Override Karma

This Awareness indicates that always, of course, the Law of Grace is greater than the Law of Karma, but you must also recognize that you have no control over whether you are gracefully forgiven by higher forces. All you can do is feel the remorse for your action and perhaps higher entities or entities of a higher spiritual nature will find a way of helping to forgive you for the karma that you accumulated.

This Awareness indicates that this is not guaranteed. These forces might recognize your remorse and still feel that there is a need for some karmic lesson, because they may see that your remorse is not truly fitting to the negative action committed against the individual.

Generally, if an entity feels a remorse that is appropriate to the error committed, the Law of Grace is invoked and the entity is forgiven and the karma is not exacted.

This Awareness however does not wish entities to count on this and to simply attempt to feel or to portray the concept of remorse in order to help alleviate any karma, for if your motive is to help alleviate karma, then it is not likely to be true remorse.

CAN THE KARMIC “LORDS” READ YOUR MIND?

FOLLOW-UP QUESTION:

Back in the late 1800′s, the author Theodore Dreiser wrote a book called “The Great American Tragedy,” I believe it was called, based on a true story, which involved a young man from the lower classes working his way up in a factory, who fell in love with the boss’s daughter, who was very wealthy and upper class, and at that time he was living with a rather frowzy young lady whom he had gotten pregnant, and he didn’t really love her, but he’d married her because of this. The basis of the story was he decided that, in order to have this socialite lady, he would take his wife out on a boat and there would be an accident and she would drown and that would solve the whole problem, and so the point of the story was, when he got out there on the boat, he changed his mind. He couldn’t go through with it. But the boat did accidentally overturn and she did drown. He tried to rescue her, but he didn’t, it was too late; and so, when he went to trial, the judge found him guilty and sentenced him to death, solely on the grounds after the truth came out of what he was thinking about, what was on his mind as he was swimming toward his wife to save her, and he had to admit, flashing before his mind was the image of the socialite lady that he really loved. My question is: In a case like that, do the Divine Forces, or whoever sets up a karmic situation that has to be repaid, can they see what was in that entity’s mind at the time the sin was committed, and do they make this a basis of their judgment?

COSMIC AWARENESS:

This Awareness indicates that this is not the proper question, because it is based on a premise that is not correct. The premise is that the entity himself knew what was going through his mind and he is the one who determines his karma. There is no Board of Karmic Lords determining whether an entity is to be punished or rewarded, for karma, good or bad. The entity who experienced the event or action knows what was in his or her heart at the time an event or action takes place, and one’s own consciousness determines one’s own karma. If you know you were involved in something that was not right, when on a subconscious or superconscious level, you evaluate your own actions, you become the judge.

This Awareness does not judge entities. This Awareness only discerns What Is, and entities become their own judge to determine whether they are guilty, whether they have karma to repay or whether they deserve a reward for their actions. This Awareness indicates It hopes this answers the question and clarifies the issue of karma in regard to the misconception that someone in a metaphysical or cosmic conscious sense is set up to be a judge of the soul. For the judge of your soul is your own Higher Self, your own subconscious and superconscious, and the realization of what the truth is, regarding the actions or event that pertains to the karma.

In other words, this Awareness suggests prior to rebirth, any karma carried over from a previous life is carried over because you know it has to be rebalanced. You know you have to balance out that karma, thus you carry it in your psyche into this life and work to clarify it in that subsequent life experience.

WHO THE “LORDS OF KARMA” REALLY ARE

FOLLOW-UP QUESTION:

There have been books written and organizations that promote the so- called Lords of Karma, and Awareness has referred to the Lords of Karma in the past too…

COSMIC AWARENESS:

These Lords of Karma are your own Lords within your own consciousness, within your Triune Self, the subconscious and superconscious being your personal Lords of Karma. In some cases, your conscious mind may act in this capacity if you are consciously aware of your error or your deserving of a reward.

This Awareness indicates that in terms of a group consciousness, such as a nation or a culture, there is what may be termed Lords of Karma, these being forces or energies associated with that nation or that group which recognize the righteousness or the unrighteous behavior of the nation or group, and these can be sometimes referred to as Lords of Karma. These are simply energies or forces that are reflective of the group, the nation, the culture. These are often called Lords of Karma. But in the case of an individual, the Lords of Karma are your own judges from within your own Triune Self.

TAKING ON ANOTHER’S KARMA

QUESTION:

I would like to know if it is perhaps possible to take on board someone else’s karma. I’m thinking of a Dickens’ novel, “A Tale of Two Cities,” where one of the main characters, Sidney, takes the place of his friend at the gallows. Sidney had lived a life of debauchery and alcoholism, and at the end when he takes on this role, says: “It’s a far, far better thing that I do now…” Can Awareness perhaps deal with this issue of taking on board someone else s karma?”

COSMIC AWARENESS:

This Awareness indicates this is very common for entities to pick up the load of another and carry the other’s karma. The entity Yogananda was said to have done this during his final days, which in turn led or contributed heavily toward his demise on this plane. This Awareness indicates that you can pick up karma for many entities at once, as is witnessed by the story of the Christian sacrifice on the cross.

This Awareness indicates that an entity can, for example take on the karma of a nation, as may be witnessed by the activity of John Kennedy and his life situation. This Awareness indicates that you can also create karma for a nation, and while many entities in that nation may not have created the karma for themselves, had they acted independently because of your influence, you may create heavy negative karma for that nation, as for example may be witnessed by the entity Adolf Hitler and the Nazis.

This Awareness indicates that any time you elect to help another, you tend to take on or pick up on their karma to some degree. The more help you give them, the more it costs you. That cost in helping them is essentially the karma you have taken on in their behalf. The cost is not necessarily money; it may simply be energy. It may be attention, it may be sympathy.

Giving Sympathy to Another is Taking on Karma

When one sympathizes with another, one takes on part of the karma of that other, takes on some of the frustration and pain of that other, so that you indeed can be carrying pain with you on behalf of another’s sufferings and, in so doing, may lessen the suffering of the other.

In some cases, an entity may suffer with another, suffer their pain, and yet not alleviate their pain at all. In such case, you are simply carrying karma with them, without alleviating their karma. This Awareness indicates that, for example, an entity may have some great guilt or may have done something that was erroneous, for example, perhaps may have stolen something or harmed someone, and you, seeking to alleviate their pain, may become an accomplice with them so that you carry some of the karma. You know about the situation and keep quiet and go along with them as a kind of silent accomplice and you may suffer with them when they experience sorrow or suffering from their activity for fear or punishment for their activity. You may not indeed, lessen the consequences for them, but may evoke similar consequences for yourself. Thus, because you love this person or care for this person, you may join the agony of your own self to wallow in the agony of the other and not diminish that entity’s agony whatsoever. In this case, through your sympathy, you carry a karma for the other, without relieving the load of the other’s karma. So you are simply joining in the karma, sharing with the entity in a way that you hope is comforting. This is much like the entity who has a serious disease, a contagious disease, and you feel sorry for that entity, so you tell them, “Give me the disease too. Then we can both suffer together, and that will make you feel better, because you’ll have company in your suffering!”

This Awareness indicates you won’t actually diminish the entity’s suffering, but you may add a kind of psychological comfort in letting the entity know that you care enough to suffer with him or her in the same pain. This is not appropriate, of course. You may be taking on karma without actually alleviating any karma for that entity, and therefore you have done nothing for the entity other than let him or her know that you care enough to suffer with the suffering entity. This Awareness suggests this is an erroneous attempt to carry another’s karma; it is fruitless and inappropriate. This Awareness does not advocate entities carrying each other’s karma, but It does recognize that when an entity loves another, they often do. It is that concept of “He ain’t heavy, he’s my brother,” where you pick up the load, the burden, the karma of another, and help that other carry it, simply because you care about the other.

This Awareness indicates that this of course creates good karma for you, and it shows the other that you care, and it can indeed alleviate the karma for the other for when someone cares enough to carry part of your karma, they are not further punished. They indeed, in most cases, feel a gratitude for your help in carrying their karma.

This does not mean they cannot rack up more negative karma, nor does it suggest that the entities will learn from the experience, for they may take it the wrong way. They may think, “Oh, he’s carrying my karma. Well, that isn’t so bad. If this is the way it works, then I can go out and create more karma, and let someone else carry it for me!” And it may encourage the entity to go back and do the same thing again.

This Awareness indicates it is this concept that helps promote some of the attitudes in India where someone who is suffering receives no help whatsoever because the entities look at the suffering being and say, “Well, that’s his karma. I’m not going to help him because if I do, he won’t learn his rightful lessons.” This Awareness indicates that it is a way of denying any help to others, by arguing that the person has this karma and therefore, needs to work through the karma, needs to suffer in order to get the proper lesson.

This Awareness does not suggest this is correct. It suggests that entities should love one another, should help one another. The entity who helps another who is over-burdened with karma, often helps the entity to feel loved and in that feeling of love, that entity may have a different attitude toward life, toward others, so that instead of going back and creating more karma of a negative nature, the entity takes on a recognition of something quite different, a loving force of energy that views life in a different way.

This Awareness indicates that in other words, entities who are helped by someone who cares sometimes feel the need to spread that caring feeling to others who are also in need and likewise, entities who find no help from anyone, may become more embittered toward the world and toward others and may indeed develop greater karma of a negative nature simply because they are embittered and no one has cared enough to help them.

FOLLOW-UP QUESTION:

In line with that, how do you help the embittered soul who refuses to accept any help and continually blames others for their lot in life?

COSMIC AWARENESS:

This Awareness indicates you may not be able to help such an entity, if the entity is totally determined not to accept help from you. All you can do is inform the entity that “If you need my help, I will help, but you have to let me know.”