Meditation on Karmic Influence

 

Meditation on Karmic Influence

By Marcus Levis

2019-06-04

The definition of something such as Karma is officially lost on the average person living in the 21^st century except those who happen to practice faiths and spiritualities in which it is incorporated (Wicca, Paganism, Hinduism ect.). I am of the belief that Karma affects more of the day to day lives of all of us now then it ever has. I hear a lot of people use this term in my day to day with a lot of them not really having a deep understanding of how it truly affects them. Karma is all over the place and exists constantly. Karma is dished out or awarded based not just on our actions, but the intentions behind them and how severe we mean those intentions. I could do something nice for someone, but if I am thinking in my head how much of an ungrateful asshole they are, and that they should be lucky that I am even helping them at all, this will negate any positive karmic value.

Karma is of course awarded in a score. This is something that I will touch on later in a separate piece of work, since it is quite complex, but for now I will focus on the level of influence Karma plays in all our lives. It is in every thought, every action and every emotion. Karma itself does not take a physical form, but it persists in a way that is easily manipulated by the universe. In that way, and that way alone can Karma always be with us.

We must watch the way that we speak as it can be in the harshness of our language. We must watch the way that we think because it can exist between our thoughts and we must watch the deepest feelings of our souls as it can manifest itself even in there, and in there it will and can cause the most damage. It can even exist n our dreams though that one is up for debate, but there are a few points to be merited for that.

We must not fear Karmic recompense, as if we do, the negative repayment for our actions will be far worse off in the end and the positive repayment will be less so to the point where we may not even believe in ever doing good things for the old adage “no good deed goes unpunished” is only true in this sense. One is never truly punished, only delayed the desired gratification.

Karma’s positives and negatives will show themselves at different times. The positive payouts will be not immediate, but always done with your best interest in mind. The negative payouts will always come when it would most inconvenience you as that is part of why they are negative payouts. The universe does not like owing anyone and will always return itself to a neutral state as best possible. If a deed is done with such an amount of positivity that the universe could not pay out all at once, then it will trickle out over a long period of time, but one day it will neutral out, same goes for something negative, though that tends to then come with many later in life obstacles.

Karma is a huge influence and its reign should never be questioned as it cannot be stopped even if few tried. It is here to stay and this is how I believe that it exists even more than ever today in the 21^st century!

Marcus Levis (Age 23)