Karma and the nature of God

[Guest guest]

My friends:

 

(I'm really enjoying this discussion of karma and am delighted to see

many people participating. Like sadhana, it works better with a

larger and active group.)

 

I don't find it helpful to maintain the paradigm of seeing our

relationship to God as a parent-child relationship. I find that it

makes much more sense to me to focus on "Ek Ong Kar" - "God and me,

me and God, are One".

 

We are not separate from God - that is an illusion that our ego

maintains. We are not separate from each other, or from the Earth,

or from the Universe, and struggling to maintain this "apartness", as

I usually do, does not bring me closer to what I believe, does not

bring me closer to you, does not bring me closer to God.

 

Do I easily maintain this perspective? I wish! But the times when I

find it (oddly enough, during meditational times are the times

when I feel the most clear, the most loving, the most loved, the most

connection to everyone and everything else.

 

I find the usage of karma in the description of a child learning to

walk very apt. I think there is no good or bad karma (punishment and

reward) - that is part of the same paradigm. Karma is like the law

of gravity in this example. Until I learn to walk upright, I fall

over ("bad karma", oh no!). When I learn to walk without falling

over it feels right and natural ("good karma", goodie, goodie!).

 

Our egos will insist on labelling the uncomfortable parts bad and the

comfortable parts good (well, mine does, I don't know about yours).

 

I think that if we truly love ourselves/each other, we can let go of

that. We can stop judging ourselves - and only then will we stop

judging each other. We can stop judging our experience and simply

have it. We don't need to be punished or rewarded to learn and

grow. We only need to be loved.

 

And we are.

 

Love & blessings,

Sadhant