Karma is one of those things that you hear so much about, but probably know nothing of. Do good things and good things happen to you, right?
Well, not really.
It’s definitely not as linear asย do good things, and good things happen. That’s a very watered-down, spiritual fluff interpretation. People believe that because the message is nice, and most importantly, it’s simple to understand.
But if that was how life worked, there would be a direct association between the quality of a person and the quality of their life.
We know that’s not true.
Iโve learned a lot about the karmic cycle through exploring some of the unique spiritual pathways this world has to offer, and it’s a whole lot more complicated than we can imagine.
Hopefully, this article clears up some ambiguity around what karmic energies are and how it works, which guides you to make better and more empowered decisions in your life.
What Is Karmic Energy?
Karma (เคเคฐเฅเคฎ) is a Sanskrit word that originated in ancient India. It refers to the spiritual cycle of cause and effect. You can look at it as a law of consequence, that all energy circulates and returns in various forms to teach certain lessons.
Karma is a neutral governing energy that acts as a spiritual educational system. Itย refers to theย universal lawย of cause and effect, action and consequence, which is tied to your soulโs reincarnation and evolutionary process and is a central theme in many religions.
Youโre here in this body to learn through your experiences for soul growth. Karma is the orchestrating energy that paves out your soul’s journey. Itโs the reason we experience the lives we have, whether theyโre of poverty and injustice or prosperity, love, and abundance.
The life youโre experiencing right now is the result of karmic energy that youโve inherited from previous cycles.
Over lifetimes, your soul accrues karmic debt based on actions, feelings, and thoughts that cause you or others suffering. As such, you also burn off karmic debt by experiencing consequences, learning, and growing through them.
Karmic energy is a force that guides souls into experiences that they need to have for their evolution. If a soul is wounded, perhaps karmic energy will push that soul into certain lifetimes or experiences that offer the opportunity to work through those wounds.
If someone is a vile, dangerous person, perhaps karmic energy will match that soul up with experiences that inevitably teach the soul why these paradigms are painful, perhaps through reciprocation. Karma is an educational system, sort of like a spiritual school, and no soul is exempt from it.
How Does Karmic Energy Work?
Think of your karma as a seed. Depending on the energy you water that seed with, it produces the fruit that sustains you. The fruit of karma is called Vipaka, and it comes in the form of wealth, health, relationships, abundance, and prosperity, to name a few.
We put labels on karma from our limited understanding, that itโs good or bad, because thatโs how we perceive it. But energy is energy. It all serves a purpose in the grand scheme of things.
Karma is a prominent concept found in Eastern religions and a cornerstone of religions such as Hinduism, Sikhism, and Buddhism. Even though karma is mostly associated with Eastern religions, the same universal law is present in all religions.
The teachings of Christianity state that to get to heaven, you need to be a good person. If you harm, you will be punished. You reap the seed you sow.
Karma is the same concept in a different style of wrapping paper.
Speaking of sweeping generalizations, I would argue that most people who have spiritual beliefs believe in karma and the cycle of reincarnation, while many spiritual teachers, shamans, monks, and yogis also hold the same beliefs.
So what does that tell you?
The idea of heaven, bliss, nirvana, paradise, or whatever name this divine state of light is given is tied to the same idea of enlightenment, in which karma is the road to reach it.
What is Saแนsฤra?
Saแนsฤra is the cycle of rebirth, learning, and growth that all souls go through to reach liberation and enlightenment.
Souls go through cycles of rebirth to learn certain lessons through the experiences of the organism. Your soul is essentially putting a part of itself into this particular container (the organism), where it acts as a sponge for all the juicy lessons it can learn in this physical dimension.
As souls go through Earth school to learn how things work all over again from different angles until they finally get it, Saแนsฤra can be seen as an endless loop of lessons and learning until the soul learns how to transcend the cycle and level up to the next chapter of its existence.
When this vicious cycle of reincarnation ends, and your soul breaks free from the karmic cycle of rebirth,ย mokshaย is achieved.
Karmic Entanglement
Karmic entanglement is the process of matching different souls together based on their karmic prints to undergo particular experiences together. Look at it as a soul contract that is orchestrated by your matching karma (like 2 jigsaw pieces connecting).
Letโs say a lesson you need, is to learn how to empower yourself because you have a string of lifetimes where you have been taken advantage of. Another soul needs to understand the consequences of an abuse of power.
Perhaps in your lifetime, you will get into a relationship with a narcissist. The relationship ends in a nasty way, where you redeem yourself and go on the attack. Suddenly, the narcissist winds up losing someone he loved. You both learned valuable lessons from the karmic experience you had together.
Different Types of Karma
During my time backpacking South America in 2016, I met a woman in Quito, Ecuador, who had spent some time studying yoga in the mountains. We were talking about karmic energy and how the phenomenon works.
We can break karma down into three distinct energies. Positive karma, negative karma, and neutral karma. Here weโre going to look at these different types of karma and how they work.
Good Karma
Good karma is gained by raising your vibration and acting, behaving, and thinking from the higher self, which serves, helps, and protects other souls.
We gain good karmic energy by intending good things.
Good karma generally manifests in a way that we perceive as desirable, good, or positive. For example, treating people with love and respect because you know itโs the right thing to do generates good karma.
Vipaka may manifest in the form of good connections, healthy relationships, meeting other people, or feeling supported, because youโre showing the universe that you are responsible, so the fruit of karma provides gifts, rather than painful lessons.
Neutral Karma
Most people think that neutral karma means thereโs no good or bad energy.
Neutral karma is the best form of karma to have.
You gain neutral karma the same way as positive karma, but without having any intention to do good. You just do it naturally without even thinking about it.
This is the best type of karma, as your energetic outlet is the purest. Youโre not trying to be good or trying to do good things. Youโre just doing them because it feels right.
For example, an elderly man who genuinely wants the best for his grandkids and is always there for them because he loves them is gaining neutral karma.
The result of this may be reciprocated love and support from the family, while just experiencing that love and generosity is also a reward in itself.
Bad Karma
Bad karma is gained by being unconscious of your actions, behaviors, thoughts, and decisions, which causes pain, hurt, and suffering to other people.
Bad karma is when you do things that either deliberately or inadvertently harm others.
Itโs gained through self-service and a low vibrational outlet, rather than serving others, which aligns with a high vibrational outlet.
Someone who screws over other people to get ahead in their business is gaining bad karma, which will have consequences and lower the personโs vibration further.
Otherwise, if you hurt someone, bully them, degrade them, or prevent them from expanding on who they are, this is going to generate negative karma through the negative energy youโre creating in other people.
How Does Karma Work?
Letโs break it down.
Negative experiences, in whatever form they take, indicate that there is work that needs to be done on a soul level. You manifest these negative experiences as a way of saying, โOh shit, this doesnโt feel right. I know to NOT go down that road because it sucks’.
In this sense, karma is like a compass. When you veer off track and start experiencing things that arenโt aligned with your higher self, karma is that force that redirects you toward your higher purpose, and pain is the medium to do so.
Itโs not like Big Daddy Karma is punishing you for being bad. It manifests painful experiences related to your wounds and blocks, which incentivize you to look at the issue and work on it.
If you have a lot to learn, youโre going to have some pretty tough experiences here.
For example, if you have a wound of betrayal, youโre going to continue having different experiences related to this particular wound until you learn from this painful pattern and transcend the deep-rooted cause of these experiences.
These cycles of pain, suffering, injustice, and hurt are karmic. Youโre experiencing them for a reason because you have to understand that pain for your evolution.
Part of your reason for being here is to continue experiencing pain related to these wounds until you gain enough knowledge, experience, and wisdom to transcend them.
Karma Orchestrates Your Experiences
Karma is a powerful energy in the same sense that love is an energy. Karmic energy is responsible for balance, equilibrium, and the education of the soul.
Energy transmutes, changes, and manifests, but it canโt be destroyed. This means that energy is recycled into itself in different forms and figures, to have different experiences, for the soul to grow and expand.
Everything is rooted in karmic energy, and this determines what you experience, how you experience it, the people you meet, the struggles you have, and what sort of life youโre reincarnated into, depending on what your soul needs to learn, and where you are in the cycle of samsara.
When people die, their soul moves on, but the karmic energy is carried with them. Your soul is then projected into another container, which is guided by its karmic energy and tries again in a different way.
Souls will continue repeating the same lessons in different forms, again and again, until they learn how to transcend those problems and evolve to a point where their divine nature is realized, and it no longer needs to be sent to this three-dimensional schoolyard.
This spiritual educational system is there to help souls reconnect with that dimension of divine love and singularity, which is the source of all existence.
But youโre not just going to jump from being a broken and wounded person with a lot of issues, straight to moksha. The soul needs to work its way towards that state, and education is necessary to understand and access it.
So letโs put it this way.
If youโre generally a shitty person, youโre veering off the track of growth and conscious expansion. Therefore, due to the karmic balance, sooner or later, one way or another, this negative energy youโre projecting will come back in some form, whether itโs through the consequences of your actions or difficulties that are going to manifest.
In a way, by being a shitty person, youโre already suffering, as happiness is directly associated with a high vibration, and suffering is directly associated with a low vibration. If youโre wondering what the hell Iโm talking about, let me dive into it a little.
Vibration Is the Language of Karma
Your vibration plays a big role in karma. The higher your vibration, the more positive energy you experience. This energy comes in the form of anything we consider good or desirable.
A high vibration corresponds with the higher self, positive emotions, productive thoughts, and empowering beliefs. Things like happiness, love, generosity, gratitude, compassion, and all these qualities and traits we like are associated with a high vibration.
A low vibration is the opposite. Itโs associated with misery and suffering, and anything that resonates with it. Limiting belief systems, destructive qualities and characteristics, greed, jealousy, hatred, fear, the list goes on.
Badย people are suffering because their actions, attitudes, and behaviors are manifestations of their misery. In general, โgoodโ people are happy and attract more positive things because they have a positive energetic outlet, which is tied to good karma.
When people are in high vibrational states, they act in union with it. Therefore, someone who is truly in a highโvibrational state and experiencing genuine happiness has no desire to hurt, be selfish, or be anywhere near these low-vibrational constructs.
Why?
Because it makes them feel miserable! Nobody wants a low vibration, but we all need to work our way up from there.
So when someone is a genuinely happy person, they become a better person, which in itself is cause and effect. When you go into a low-vibrational state, you start suffering as a low vibration is associated with negativity.
When someone is experiencing low-vibrational energy, such as anger, greed, bitterness, cruelty, and selfishness, you can bet theyโre not happy; otherwise, they wouldnโt be acting this way.
Karmic energy is there to help people discover alignment with peace and love by teaching them the errors of their ways. Being destructiveย is not sustainable. Somewhere along this soul journey, theyโre gonna have some tough lessons which will become louder and louder until they finally get it, and recalibrate.
Just because you see bad people in good positions doesnโt mean theyโre going to stay that way. They will reap the consequences of their actions in this life or another.
How Does Karma Teach Souls?
If youโre experiencing hatred or maybe resentment toward a former lover who hurt you, who is losing? You are because youโre fostering those negative feelings.
In this case, karma is wisdom that you gain through that particular experience, which tells you to let it go and perhaps have more compassion. Maybe itโs not the lesson you were looking for, but in this case, itโs the only way toย let go of the painย and evolve your consciousness.
If you have spent your life as a good person but always struggled with money, and you didnโt overcome this obstacle in this lifetime, perhaps youโre going to be born into poverty next lifetime.
Your slate isnโt wiped clean just because you died. Since you never transcended that poverty and the misery surrounding it, youโre going to be given another chance to try.
On the other hand, since you donโt have issues around generosity and being friendly, perhaps you will have good social relationships and have no issues in that arena, since you donโt need any lessons there.
If youโre in pain and are in a lowโvibrational state, youโre going to keep experiencing lowโvibrational lessons. The lessons are going to get louder and more difficult, which can create a vicious cycle if you arenโt learning from it, or it can force you to take action and make changes in your life.
But letโs say you still never broke out of that cycle.
In your next life, you will have another shot. Maybe this time, you will be born into extreme poverty, where the issue has now become the entire focal point of your life.
The universe is ramping up the pressure and forcing you into an experience where it gets so bad that you have to figure out how to get out of this cycle of feeling powerless and completely unsupported by the universe, because you have no alternative. The problem is too loud to ignore.
If you live your life the same way, you will be given another chance, and another chance, and another chance to learn what you need to learn. Every time you get another chance, the universe is going to ramp up the pressure because youโre still not getting it.
Otherwise, imagine youโre coming from a place of insecurity. You might have a long string of partners who treat you crap, because youโre insecure, you donโt value yourself. Therefore, you havenโt learned your lesson yet, so karmic energy orchestrates these sorts of people for you to connect with, as they are essentially teachers.
Karmaโs not going to say Aww, you deserve to be treated better, letโs make life easy. Karma is quite a merciless teacher. It will continue orchestrating the same type of experiences, again and again, until you learn from this painful cycle.
So, that’s karma in a nutshell, based on my understanding. Ultimately, I understand karma as a navigational compass that points souls towards union with god through orchestrating particular lessons needed for their evolution. Be the best person you can be, live the best life you can, and realize that karma is a force of good that wants us to succeed.
