I’d like to add a thought to the notion of karma – that bad actions translate to the exact same (bad) experience coming your way. I believe that the universe (God) is smarter and more benevolent than that. Let me give you an example.
In the book “Life between Life”, Joel Whitton, a regression therapist, describes the life circumstances of a man who, in a previous incarnation as a roman soldier, haunted and then tortured jews to death by riding over them with his horse. Now you could think that he in turn would reincarnate as a minority member and be tortured to death by someone else, but no. The solution is more elaborate than that.
In his current life, which is linked to the incarnation as a roman soldier, he in turn is a jew and working as a surgeon. As a jew living in the 20th century, he is not haunted, but he is denied access to the working place where he’d like to work because of his origin. So he is having the experience of the minority member who is discriminated. And now, as a surgeon (a job he sometimes dislikes), he is mending broken bodies, thereby making the world a better place AND balancing out the destruction of bodies that he has comitted in his previous life. Once he learned about this, he could better cope with his sporadic aversion to his job, because he now saw sense in what he did.
So see. If he in turn would simply be killed, he would have payed of his debt, but the world at large wouldn’t have been much better off. Now, by having the opportunity to balance out his karma through the positive actions of working as a surgeon he is helping his fellow people and thereby positively impacting the world around him. A much better solution in my opinion and a prime example that karma is more than just “eye for eye, and tooth for tooth”.
I can attest to this way that karma works by my own experiences. You have to face consequences, but these can be laid out in a constructive way so that the net result is worth more than simple “revenge”. It’s more like learning from your past actions and then – hopefully and with help from above – taking a turn for the better in this life. Ultimately, using your free will, you steer the chariot and decide which way you want to go and how you want to deal with your karma.
I am not saying that it has to be this way all the times, but it can be and has been.
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