Nothing in our life ever happens accidentally, life can be seen as a school that teaches us to truly live.
Since ancient times, esoteric science has known the concept of karma. The word “karma” comes from Sanskrit and means “action.” This signifies that every action a person performs leads to consequences, karma. So, karma is a manifestation of the law of causation. That is, what was once done leads to the corresponding consequences. And since the human being is a manifestation of a higher system, which esotericists called a microcosm, part of this microcosm records the essence of the experiences of a given life, which constitutes the corresponding karma. Over countless manifestations, that is lives, in this field of existence, the microcosm has accumulated a huge amount of karma. Sometimes the experiences are understood, their essence is extracted, and then karma turns into a vast wealth of knowledge and wisdom that the respective reincarnated personality in the microcosm can use.
In other cases, however, the lessons of the experiences are not understood, and the human personality, which is currently a manifestation of the respective microcosm, has to face similar situations again and again in order to learn. Very often in such cases, people who encounter such situations perceive them as a great injustice. Frequently they react with words such as: “What did I do to deserve this?”, “Why is God punishing me?”, etc. It is clear that such people simply do not understand that they are not everything in their life systems, that they do not know themselves in regard to their true nature as microcosms.
Another reason for this misunderstanding is that people do not have a vision of the whole situation, but simply look at only part of the whole and, due to the limited consciousness of the ego, interpret things according to their own views, which are usually very narrow. A good example of such a view is the justice exercised by the earthly courts. It views a possible violation of the law as something separate from the whole, even from the rest of the life experiences of the probable offender, and delivers a verdict that is not always just even according to the laws on which it is based. Although the laws keep society in a certain balance, these cases show the limits of human understanding of justice compared to higher divine justice, which includes karma but is much more than that; it is much more comprehensive.
The real purpose of karma is not to punish, but to help human beings perfect their understanding through the lessons of life. In this context, the law of causation is a manifestation of the highest universal law, the law of Divine Love. In fact, Love lies at the core of all creation because GOD IS LOVE and all of God’s children are attracted like a magnet by the Love power of the Creator. So Love can also be seen as the driving force of evolution. This means that all universal laws that ensure universal order are subordinated and included in the law of Love.
The aim of this law on our plane of existence is to turn the transitory human being of time and space with egocentric consciousness into a higher, eternal being with omnipresent consciousness, which is what we truly are according to our deepest essence. To this end, the person who understands the true purpose of life should connect the higher divine power, permeating this nature order, to the inner spiritual being on the level of the human heart.
If we learn to create space for this being by gradually emptying ourselves of earthly, egocentric desires and impulses, we reach an inner silence and non-action of the ego. In this way, the divine power gradually saturates our entire microcosm and guides every step on the Path where lessons of life help us understand ourselves by showing us the different sides of our personality through our reactions in the various situations. Then we could understand what in our life helps the development of this inner spiritual being and what hinders it, so that we can begin to support the process by suitable new actions, directed both inwardly and into the concrete reality of the outer world, into everyday life.
Gradually, we acquire firsthand understanding that as individuals separated from the Source, from God, we are beings of the relative, imperfect. At best, we are relatively good, but from the higher perspective of the absolute, this also means that we are not good, imperfect. Furthermore, we must remember, as mentioned above, that very often the things that happen have a root cause in the past of the microcosm, a lesson that has not been understood and still needs to be learned.
The purpose of every lesson is not to make us suffer, but simply to give us the right understanding, to change us. So, nothing in our life ever happens accidentally, life can be seen as a school that teaches us to truly live. Suffering comes from our non-acceptance and resistance. If we, connected to the supreme divine power, on the basis of a profound awareness of our imperfection can accept life’s lessons with deep humility, whatever they may be, then we can live in the aforementioned completely new, correct way, thus transforming karma into dharma.
When in this way we undo the resistance, the barriers between our consciousness and the spiritual being within, we gradually merge with that True Self. Then we shall be filled with intense inner joy and bliss, because God is the very substance of Love, the highest vibration imaginable. Then nothing will be able to separate us from the Source, the Lord of All Life. In this way, karma can be seen as a major contributing factor in the process of our transformation, imperfect beings of time and space as we are, into beings of Eternity according to our innermost essence.
