KarmaKarma is a universal law. One that results in justice and fairness being meted out universally despite any doubters or naysayers claims against such a concept. Though it is described in its eastern roots differently than divine justice is in the western tradition i think these are two sides to the same coin, two traditions borne out of one fundamental truth which is the equilibrium of universal justice. Righteousness and justice are the eternal and original state of being in the universe, in all of creation. And when someone, anyone, goes against that the universe through Gods will and divine providence will see that original state restored. Good will triumph…which is the natural order.
Like a body restoring itself to its original state of health, karma works in the same way to restore the universe to a state of righteousness and preserve justice. It is a divine law of equilibrium. With what judgment you mete out the same shall be meted out against you. These divine interventions serve to awaken us to the voice of the Lord who keeps calling us back to the proper path of life.
Righteousness, enlightenment, realization, justice, the Christian way is not lifestyles that require us to check off boxes next to divine laws and commandments. They are facets to a path that we are called to follow by Christ and ultimately we are guided by the Holy Spirit and by our own hearts. Scripture says the law of God was written on the hearts of mankind, it is our conscience. It lets us discern right from wrong, to know as if by instinct what is morally righteous and what is morally bankrupt.
So if we act or speak against our conscience, we are reminded of where we went wrong and where we must go right by the divine intervention of karma. And we will see continual reminders until we correct. Karma will keep acting out the same lesson until we learn it. God will not be ignored, nor will He be cast aside in favor of an excuse or justification or a rationalization. He will speak until He is heard and when He is truly heard we will act but not out of fear of punishment or a quest for reward but out of a sincere and genuine desire to do right because it is the right thing to do. This is what defines and exemplifies nobility; it is what characterizes honor and integrity. And it is what prevents us from succumbing to our base instincts or desires of selfishness. It is what allowed the prophets and martyrs to face death with peace in their hearts and serenity in their minds and to beg God to forgive those that slaughtered them and allowed them to truly love their neighbors as themselves, even their enemies.
Justice can perish with each generation, it must be fought for if we are to establish and build up the kingdom of God on Earth as it is in heaven. We are all in this together for better or worse so we can work together for our mutual benefit or we can continue to abuse, oppress and murder one another for our own selfish ends. Karma will restore balance sooner or later, the easy way or the hard way, we will learn to walk the righteous path of unconditional love and make life easy for ourselves and our brothers and sisters the world over or we will learn the hard way and repeat the horrors of the 20th century such as the Holocaust, WWII, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the killing fields of Polpot, Stalin’s Russia or Vietnam.
Zion is described in LDS scripture in more detail than found in the Bible. As the early Church was described in Acts it was also said of the people of Zion that there were no poor among them. They lived the law of consecration, which is to say all their sustenance belonged not to them but to the Lord from whence it came and instead of being horded it was distributed amongst all according to need. The city of Zion, the Early Church described in Acts both lived by the universal and eternal laws of unconditional love, of righteousness and justice and were thus blessed by karma, by divine providence.
Karma is elegant, it is simple but it is not always easy. Peace is always hard to maintain, war is always easy to start. A society where 99% have ownership of just 10% and the richest 1% own 90% is easier than creating and maintaining a society where there are no poor among them as the citizens of Zion did and as the early followers of Christ also did. It takes more imagination, more creativity and more wisdom to accomplish what we are truly capable of, to accomplish what we have been called by Jesus to accomplish. Einstein said imagination is more important than intelligence and this is why. We would not have been meant to accomplish such things or called to if we didn’t have it within us to actually do it. It is only a fantasy if we allow it to be.
We call the Church the body of Christ because we in essence are the individual components that make up that body to act and speak in His stead, not only in an official manner but also in the sense that we are inspired by the Spirit to speak or act and thereby affect change for the better, help the hungry eat, make the stranger feel welcome or to awaken someone to the truth of the kingdom or to showcase the beauty of heaven. The scriptures are instruments of faith but we are not just children of God we are His instruments of faith and karma, if we choose to be. We always have a choice to make.
