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Page 5
Jul 1, 1999
If you understand the Law of KARMA, you will realize that there is no destiny besides the human will. Everybody gets exactly what he/she deserves. This is a Cosmic and Inflexible Law. There is a perfect justice, even when our limited human understanding "sees" an "injustice". The human beings build their own destiny through their actions, thoughts and intentions. If these have a positive charge, the destiny will be positive. If the actions, thoughts or intentions have a predominantly negative charge, the destiny will be negative. Notice that you do not necessarily have to do bad things to others for having a bad destiny: people usually do bad things to themselves, and this is enough for creating a negative KARMA. An important thing here is the intention. Remember, God or other Superior Cosmic Entities never punish a creature for being "bad" and never reward it for being "good".
In the light of this Law, man sows seeds (actions) that will sprout later. But the ignorant man continuously sows seeds and pays no attention to their grow. He does not even know what he is doing. He does not even know that what he is doing will have a repercussion. Nevertheless, this does not make the seeds of his actions sterile, on the contrary: they sprout and ripen, and then each must eat of the sweet or sour fruits of his own field. Not only our actions, but also our omissions become our destiny. Even the things
that we have failed to accomplish trigger reactions that may develop into events of grave concern. Our fate deposits itself insidiously in our lives through our innumerable tiny movements, thoughts, intentions, habits, the scarcely conscious actions and neglects of everyday life. Then, through our unconscious choices and rejections, it gradually thickens until the solution reaches a saturation point and is ripe for crystallization. A slight turbulence is then enough, and what has long been forming as a cloudily liquid, something indefinite, merely holding itself in readiness, is instantaneously precipitated as destiny, bursts open crystal-clear and hard, and reveals to our astonished eye its internal store. Then we are thunderstruck. Then we ask ourselves: "What have I done to deserve this? Why me?" What for a long time has been build within in secrecy, unpredictably unloads itself with great power into the outer world and carries us with it: the machinery of KARMA starts its inexorable work into the scenery that we ourselves, most of the time unconsciously, have minutely prepared. We suddenly discover that we are trapped in an inescapable net, woven and tailored by ourselves, into which we have thoughtlessly delivered ourselves, and which leads us to phenomena of unknown and often uncontrollable proportions. And the tragic beauty of this is that everything seems as if it would come from outside, as if we would have no choice, as if we would be the victims of an unfair judgement, as if the whole world would turn against us in a sudden outburst of capriciousness.
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