How can we pay for the Karma?
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Answers from the books of Samael Aun Weor
Fortunately my friends, Justice and Mercy are the two Main Columns of the Universal White Lodge.
Justice without Mercy is tyranny; Mercy without Justice is tolerance, indulgence of the crime. KARMA IS NEGOTIABLE and this is something which may surprise a great many of the followers of the different orthodox schools.
Some pseudo-esoterists and pseudo-occultists have become excessively pessimistic in relation to the law of action and consequence; they mistakenly consider that it operates in a mechanical, automatic, and cruel manner. The erudite believe that it is not possible to alter the law; I am sincerely sorry, but I have to disagree with this manner of thinking.
If the law of action and consequence, if the nemesis of existence were not negotiable, what then would remain of divine mercy? Frankly, I am unable to accept cruelty in divinity. The real, that which is complete perfection, that which has different names like Tao, Aum, INRI, Sein, Allah, Brahma, God, or better said, Gods, etc., etc., etc., could in no manner be something without mercy, cruel, tyrannical, etc. Due to all of the above, I emphatically repeat that Karma is negotiable.
It is possible to alter our own destiny because: “WHEN AN INFERIOIR LAW IS TRANSCENDED BY A SUPERIOR LAW, THE SUPERIOR LAW WASHES AWAY THE INFERIOR LAW”.
In altering the cause, one alters the effect. “The lion of the law is over-come with the balance.” If on one tray of the scale we place our good deeds and on the other we place the bad, either both trays will weigh equally, or there will be some imbalance. If the tray of bad actions weighs more, we must place good deeds on the tray of good actions with the purpose of inclining the balance in our favor; thus we cancel Karma.
Perform good acts in order to pay your debts; REMEMBER THAT ONE DOES NOT ONLY PAY WITH PAIN, ONE MAY PAY BY DOING GOOD TO OTHERS.
Now you will understand my good friends, how marvelous it is to do the good. Without doubt, right thought, right feeling, and right action are the best form of negotiation.
WE MUST NEVER PROTEST AGAINST KARMA, THE IMPORTANT THING IS TO KNOW HOW TO NEGOTIATE. Unfortunately the only thing which occurs to people when they find themselves in a very bitter circumstance, is to wash their hands like Pilate, saying that they have done nothing wrong, that they are not guilty, that they are righteous souls etc., etc., etc.
I say to those who are in misery that they examine their conduct; that they judge themselves; that they take a seat, even if only for an instant, in the dock; that after a summary analysis of themselves they change their behavior.
If they who find themselves without work were to become chaste, infinitely charitable, peaceful, completely obliging; it is obvious that they would radically alter the cause of their misfortune, consequently altering the effect.
It is impossible to alter an effect if we have not previously radically changed the cause which produces it; because, as we have already said, effect does not exist without cause, nor cause without effect.
One must work always in a selfless manner with infinite love for humanity; thus we alter those bad causes which bring about the bad effects.
There is no doubt that misery has its causes in drunkenness, nauseating lust, in violence, in adulteries, in wastefulness and in avarice etc., etc.
Do you want to be healed? Then heal others. Some of your families are in prison? Work for the liberty of others. Are you hungry? Share food with those who are worse off than you etc.
Many people who suffer only recall their miseries wishing to find a remedy for them; but they do not remember the sufferings of others, it does not even enter their heads to provide for the needs of their fellowman. This egotistical state of their existence serves no end; and thus, the only thing which they achieve is to aggravate their sufferings.
If such people were to think of others, to think about being of service to their fellowman, of giving food to the hungry giving a drink to the thirsty of clothing the naked, of teaching those who do not know, etc, clearly they would place good acts upon the tray of the cosmic balance in order to incline it in their favor. Thus they would alter their destiny and fortune would favor them; that is to say, all of their necessities would be met. People are however, very egotistical, and for this reason they suffer. Nobody thinks of God nor their fellowman except when they are in desperation and this is something which everyone has been able to prove for himself; such is humanity.
Unfortunately, my dear friends, that ego which each one carries within does exactly the opposite of what we are saying here; for this reason it is urgent, impossible to postpone, something which ca not be put off, to reduce the “myself” to a cosmic dust cloud.
Let’s consider for a moment the mass of humanoids that populate the face of the Earth. They suffer the indescribable, victims of their own errors. Without the ego there would not be those errors nor would they suffer the consequences of them.
All that is needed in order to have the right to true happiness is, above all, not to have the ego. Certainly when the psychic elements do not exist within us, the inhuman elements which make us so horrible and wicked, there is no karma to pay, and the result is happiness.
It is also good to know that when we have RADICALLY ELIMINATED THE EGO, THE POSSIBILITY OF OFFENDING IS WIPED OUT AND IN COSEQUENCE, KARMA CAN BE PARDONED.
