Let me clear this up for you:
Since no one seems to understand. Time to rant.ย
I absolutelyย hate how western practitioners have twisted the meaning and bastardised it. Donโt get me wrong, Iโm not completely rooted in my roots and Iโm not an extreme traditionalist but people using the concept of karma by first misunderstanding its foundations and then using it to justify horrendous shit is unbelievable. Which then, leads to people trying to divorce karma from its associations.
Okay, letโs just break it down. Idk how they just reduced Karma asย โwhat goes around, comes aroundโ & treated it like aย cause and effect deal, because it isnโt. Using Karma to justify suffering and oppression was NEVER itโs original purpose. Looking through Hinduism & Vedic teachings, Karma is a law that human in the centre of responsibility, in every way, shape and form. There is a reason Karma is tied with Saturn (Shani), the God of Karma, Justice and Retribution, and ANY astrologer can tell you how Saturn operates in similar principal.
Karma doesnโt teach people to shut up & suffer because they deserve it.
Karma says that the cycles that exist are created by and through humans, their suffering & good fortune accordingly and by virtue, it is in their hands and will alone on how they want to cultivate their actions.
It DOESNโT discount systematic oppression.
It DOESNโT tell you to sit on your hands and suffer because itโs your fault.
It DOESNโT tell you that youโll get good things after suffering.
What Karma does is present you with the situation of your life, then waits and watches what YOU choose to do with it, how YOU work or manage it. Ultimately, being tied to Saturn, it expects you to take responsibility on creating your own situation.
And no, Iโm not saying this in the way that the way people are, and how theyโre suffering is because they somehowย โwere a bad person in their previous life, etc etcโ, Iโm saying that it acknowledges that people have different situations & personal suffering, yes, a LOT of things in life are fundamentally difficult but you need to understand, the planets or the gods didnโt create suffering on such a global scale, it was ultimately humans/men themselves that perpetuated and continued the cycle of suffering, and it is, ultimately, in our hands to make it better or worse. Karma treats everyone equally this sense, but it is very difficult to understand this if you donโt realise that the concept of Karma is deeply tied with cycles, especially as Hinduism treats time as a cycle itself, and often times people really canโt and donโt have the knowledge of comprehending anything but their own/current life while theyโre alive.ย
Karma isnโt an immediate slap in the face (unless you have those placements that make it so) as you know, the GOD OF KARMA is literally called the slowest/slow moving planet and is symbolised by a tortoise, the effects of your Karma accumulate and thus it usually manifests in the various cycle of lifes. I understand that western practitioners or those growing up with largely Christian themes/society canโt understand because we donโt have a definite โendโ, the only โendโ that comes from cycles of reincarnation is through burning the ties of Karma and liberating the soul. There are three types of Karma:
1. Sanchita karma, the sum total of past karmas yet to be resolved.
2. Prarabdha karma, that portion of sanchita karma that is to be experienced in this life.
3. Kriyamana karma, the karma that humans are currently creating, which will bear fruit in future.
There are some things in life you canโt control, there are also things in life that you can control. Karma is a continuous cycle until you achieve moksha, which is the ultimate goal of liberation.
Hinduism/The Vedas has recognised and understood the way the Law of Karma works, thatโs one of the main reasons Dharma was made one of the aims of life, the act of good deeds, performing proper responsibilities & personality that ultimately gears you towards attaining (good)karma that will make it easier for you to pursue the otherย โPurusarthaโ aka aims of life, and of course, the path towards liberation in general.
From this perspective, we see life as fundamentally connected with everything, including people, action, deeds, nature, planets, the universe etc etc, Karma is just a law that explains one part of such. Astrology has always been one of the main tools used to deeply study the bond between the planets and a human existence (soul & body), one of the main reason Karmic Astrology exists is because the intrinsic ties our existence has with different elements of life, and of course, the soul that has & will be going through everything.
Now that youโre in the end of this post, I hope you never misuse the concept ofย โKarmaโ because Iโm going to arrive there with Saturn to slap a bitch.
