Karma

There are within this universe a set of rules which apply across the board to all people. Gravity is the first. What goes up will come down. Granted the duration between the upside and the down side is not determinable in many cases, however, the effect always comes.

This brings me to another rule: Cause and effect. This is a big one, probably the most important one. In Christian parlance it might be called the law of sowing and reaping, or the Golden Rule. On the streets it’s known as what comes around goes around. In the writings of Paul to the gathering in Galatia he declares it as,

Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. (Gal 6:7)

According to Matthew, Jesus taught about it in the following manner,

Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets. (Mat 7:12)

I want to step back to Paul’s take on this matter and couple it with another mystic statement made by Jesus in the fourth gospel.

Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit. (Joh 12:24)

There a lot of people who enter into this life as the underclass, the down trodden, the hopeless. How does their station in life align with the law of sowing and reaping if they had no ability to determine the seed? Are these lives the cause or the effect?

Now take the opposite extreme, people like Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Amin and many others who humanity has deemed the cruelest people ever to live. After having wreaked havoc upon humanity through various atrocities, where is the reaping from their sowing? Some would proclaim that their death was the sowing for the works that they accomplished against humanity, as if their death atoned for the millions they killed. According to Jesus, the death of these few should bring forth fruit to be harvested. Since they died, has their reaping been completed?

We fall somewhere between the extremes I’ve mentioned. We live a life of the of the grandest nose-picker, a social pox on the fabric of humanity. Our very existence inflames the emotions of the masses since we appear to have no concept of what is morally acceptable behavior. Day in and day out we flick buggers upon the unsuspecting while we smile at them as they bolt from their path of intention to evade our slimy projectile. Never do we consider that our actions will have a consequence simply because it’s only a bugger, right?

Then a day comes and goes. Suddenly we discover that we too went with the day. No amends made, no reaping for a field of buggers sown. I’m okay; you’re caked in slime. It would appear that sowing and reaping is a fallacy to the nose pickers in the world. But what was Paul’s injunction? God will not be mocked!

Have you ever considered that sowing, reaping, even death, are all actions which occur on earth? While heaven is home base, these laws I am are describing relate to this physical planet. And according to Paul and Jesus, God will see to it that the cycle is completed on this planet. Death, it appears is merely the transition between sowing and reaping. That is something you probably didn’t consider. When Jesus claims that with God all things are possible, you better think he mean “all things.” Yup, there is a reaping coming along after death…on this planet for us – buggers and all. But as dire as this might appear, God, who is love, knows what the harvest will bring. Flick or not to flick. That seems to be the question.