The law of Karma doesn't revolve around the story we tell ourselves about why we took an action, and how we are entitled to the "good happening to us" in return. Karma is rooted in the intention behind our actions. Often at the surface level, Karma is defined as "do good and good will happen to you." But in reality, Karma operates with the mathematical culmination of human thoughts, intentions, driving force, and reasoning that leads to actions and then reactions to the outcomes. Karmic patterns go beyond the conscious surface. They are driven by our unconscious and subconscious as well. Hence even the non-intention leads to Karmic patterns - inescapable. Yet agnostic to our moral explanation of absurd acts.
So the question to ask yourself is, what is my driving force? Not the story I tell myself to console and justify my desperation, self-absorption, and fear. But the honest reflection of where my actions truly stem from. How the thought patterns create the pattern of action and pattern of outcomes is where the individual Karma begins.
In my life journey, the true test of my character was under immense pressure. What rose above in utmost pressure took different forms and shapes throughout my life. Looking back, as I do the math, visible are the patterns that emerge, evolve, and settle. At times the breaking points left the dust; other times they left faint stars, while significant forks in my path propelled me into unknown directions; My quest became an effort to strengthen my biggest anchor, which is my character. Fine-tuning individual karma means paying attention to feelings that drive our lives while continuing actions towards dropping such conditions. Only possible once the shadows are fully accepted
Then comes the collective Karma and the interconnectedness. Just like all the elements of nature are in harmony with each other, it's the harmony and lack thereof in the human world that leads to the culmination of the collective Karma of humanity. Ever wondered why the ancient sages talked about various Yugas? I gathered the audacity to lay on the floor under dark skies to see if I could think somewhat along the lines. It's my effort to demystify these revelations that pointed me to the interconnectedness of everything. So here it goes! Kal Yuga - Current times - The concept of Kal Yuga is based on the mathematical and logical contemplation of the imbalance on the planet where human actions have led to climate change, wars, diseases, regression of human intelligence, and regressing consciousness. Each time we we have hit a tipping point in our history, it has had the outcomes, that when studied backward will show the math of the Law of Karma. And each time more damage occurs leading up to that tipping point than it did before. In the consciousness and the material.
Now the question is how do we drive change that will restore the balance? We live in an interconnected world where news of world events can depress us right there in our comfortable living rooms. Siddhartha Gautam could be shielded from the plight of the world for only a limited time; for us, the plight has become an intrusion that is trying to wake us up. Not one, not two but infinite instances of imbalance are the tightrope today's man walks on. The earth we walk today is full of tipping points ready to spill over and explode our foundation. This is why I say; "anyone hurt is everyone hurt." The ancient sages knew this.
Satyuga: What they called Satyug was the peak of the human condition which had the humans "realize" the divine in everything. The levels the human mind had reached in its contemplation created ancient modalities and wisdom that's timeless and now modern science is playing catch up with. In the context of their own times, our ancestors had indeed found a peak. Which looks different from the peak of our times when we make up for our intellect with external technology. ~I doubt we all will survive the next wave of nature's wrath on us that will take shapes and forms to ensure the survival of the fittest and define it in her own way; beyond what the man of science seems entitled to believe. It's the bookends of the modern man, those very bookends that leave many out of this quest which starts individualistic until the river flows and flows and becomes oceans. If the rivers knew there was an ocean to meet, she would stand still and chant "ocean, ocean, ocean!" And become a stinking pond. I commend nature's ability to welcome uncertainty as the core of its intelligence.~ To understand death our sages understood life! The mystery remained of what is divine. It's as simple as saying "We are all made of carbon." So if we are all made of carbon, which is matter, what is the force that puts in carbon a desire to exist? We all came from a single cell, but what was the force that led to this man who can create, invent, destroy, love, and inspire? Regression, is that law of nature or are we a glitch in the system? Through sheer observation and contemplation of the world around us, some of us have reached the dilemma not once but in every generation that has existed. The ancient sages aren't a production of the past. The current regression is more fertile ground to force a sage in more of us. Buddhas aren't born, they are made. Maslow's hierarchy theory explains, that the likeliness of self-actualization is higher when man's pursuit of safety, necessities, and social status has led to certain fulfillment but not the ultimate fulfillment. The disillusionment from the suffering and the achievements are the tug of war wrapped in neurosis which is essentially the cry of our souls yet imperative in seeking more, more of whatever we deeply yearn for. So I am not all hopeless I support the prophecies of great souls emerging to save humanity if that's in the best interest. Because Math proves it's plausible. It's unlikely that HE will be just one messiah from a certain group. Only those who will believe in ONENESS will be the true saviors.
I can't help but quote the mesmerizing mind of a Physicist and Musician to wrap this up - without a bookend to continue this later. “What's interesting about if you look at the basic physics of the universe going from the Big Bang to where we are today, then the physics is driven by the fact that the universe began in an extremely ordered state. See, it was a very highly ordered system. And it is tending towards a more disordered system at the moment. And that's called the second law of thermodynamics. What we strongly suspect, and I would say know, is that in that processes of going from order to disorder, complexity emerges naturally for a brief period of time. So it's a natural path that in the evolution of the universe you get period in time where there's complexity is the universe - stars, and planets, and galaxies, and light, and civilizations. But they exist because the universe is decaying, not in spite of the fact that the universe is decaying. So our existence in that sort of picture is necessarily finite and necessarily time limited. And it is a remarkable thing that that complexity has gone so far, that there are things in the universe that can think, and feel, and explore it. And I think that is the answer. If you want an answer to the meaning of it all, it's that. That you are a part of the universe because of the ways the laws of nature work. You are allowed to exist, but you are allowed to exist for a temporary, small amount of time in a possible infinite universe.”
― Brian Cox
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