The Law Of Karma And The Benefits Of Knowing It

Suppose a person from India goes abroad for the first time and rents a car over there. He then parks his rented car on the wrong side of the road. He will be charged a fine because parking laws may be different in India and the country visited. He cannot simply say I didn’t know, I am ignorant. It should have been his responsibility, if driving, to find out the laws of the new country but he didn’t take enough care.

In ignorance, we have done many things against the universal laws of creation – especially the Law of Karma. We did not have the complete knowledge of what are good and bad karmas, what are right and wrong karmas; what different types of effects different karmas would have on me, others and physical nature. But we cannot just say I didn't know. It was our responsibility to know. If we look at the state of the world now, there may be a few sparks of the light of divinity or spiritual enlightenment but, generally, there is a great amount of darkness. That gives us an indication of the sort of karmas the vast majority of us have been performing, due to ignorance, to have produced the present situations or circumstances in the world.

The complete knowledge of the karmic process, which we learn from God, when we are introduced to spirituality, helps us:

- reduce the burden of the past

- remove any type of suffering or sorrow in our present life

- change our future as well as that of the world, to make it better and more positive

- experience a positive return from our spiritual efforts

- understand all the why’s, how’s, what’s and when’s which surround our life