Is Karma Fair?

Karma, or cosmic justice, puts everyone into conditions where they can either learn or atone for something. Helena Roerich

Is Karma fair?  In Biblical terms, karma is reaping what you sow.  As it turns out, that word “karma” has karma of its own.  It sometimes has bad press because some people only think of karma as something bad coming back to punish them.  It is really just the principle of cause and effect but it is not merely limited to an act like slapping someone and getting slapped back.

Karma is also the sum total of all we have done and all that has been done to us.  It is not merely one action and reaction.  It is the totality of our experience from the beginning of our existence.  To understand karma, it helps for you to acknowledge that you are not just a body with a spirit inside of it; you are a soul—a spirit wearing many different bodies throughout time.

Karma helps us to understand why bad things happen to good people just as it demonstrates how good things happen to all people.  It is one answer to our eternal questions about divine justice – about what is and is not fair. Read More »