78. Karma – Cause and Effect.

Karma is a common language used in all scriptures and ‘individual’ lives, seem to be related to the meaning of this word.

The general assumption is that, that Karma is a belief system, whereby the deeds of the past, is what is effecting your present. It only means that, the happening of the present, must have a link to the past. If you cant find the link in this life time, you are free to go back a few lifetimes and do the needful. But the needful ‘must’ be done, or else the theory will stand to be exposed as a ‘failure’ which cannot be accepted, due to belief systems in place of not allowing this to happen.
This deduction, is based on science, which has an explanation for all the laws of nature, as if, all happening  of nature, were featured by man made or laid down laws. So apples are falling down, because of gravity being 9.81 units/mass unit. So the cause of falling is gravity and gravity as a cause was ‘found’ by man. Before the find, apples were still falling down. So happening happens, and reasoning around the happening happens, as if it begged for a cause. So if apples fell into the sky, some new planet nearer to earth has popped in, to levitate gravity upward. But explanation or reason or cause, must come as an understanding. God makes the understanding, to avoid confusion, in order to maintain the knower, knowing and the known, as separate from each other.

The ‘assumed reality’ of life, is based on explanations and the basis of explanations is enforced by belief systems. What is a belief?. Whatever you believe that makes the world seem ‘real’ is a belief. This is hell of a statement, but must be believed, in order to work at a system to check out its worthiness. It automatically means  that, if you believe that ‘all this’ is bullshit, then that belief is held true, for you, as ‘reality’ of the ‘world’. Belief must be believed or whatever believed is belief, it all means the same, in the end.

We grow up in a belief system. A child is born with no beliefs whatsoever. No even that, whereby it can feel to be a separate entity. It doesn’t recognise anyone or anything, as adults do, including itself being a ‘person’ or a child, or a human or an entity. The programming of the child, into an adultery, by far, has a pattern of an open field which seems to absorb whatever it ‘comes across’ as a learning process to shape ‘itself’ up to the future or survival and social behaviour. Of course, in some cases, it is quite opposite, and we explain this, as we like.

Assuming we are humans and with an intellect, ( intellect cannot be negated, as we seem to cognise and learn languages etc. It could be life’s intellect as ‘us’ or our intellect, whatever it is, intellect does exist), there is a system whereby the intellect seems to learn and implement, whatever comes in way of this intellect. For a while, let us name the ‘human’ as just as intellect. This intellect is busy picking up data and some inherent system making their meanings, as it gets to know them and somehow all this is stored as memory. However, a system must be in place to ‘recognise’ sounds and actions and their meanings, so that, this system forms the basis for the entire set of working of the human system.

It is like first making a software system to a computer, that becomes the basis and that system then on, sytemises all that goes into it, as per the default programme and is able to ‘deliver’ itself, as per input, but primarily on the basis of the initial software.

Human intellect also works on some basis. It needs a system to grasp. That system has to be rooted very very strongly, in a way that the root is fixed for good until death. Such a system, when used as the base, will allow the human intellect to react or behave in a ‘human’ way, until seeming death.

Separation and cause and effect is enough, as an initial software. The belief that a real world exists, separation ‘exists’ and ‘cause and effect’ exists are the initial programming that can maintain and sustain the whole of human-ness as is seen now ( or separation ) to all its activity, as it passes through its entire living time or life time. Once the entire human race, comes under such a hypnotic clout’, the human race progresses as a theme of this hypnotism for ever, until that species is believed to exist.  

One knows that this intellect exists, even as a child, or at least, we say that human nature comes with intelligence, as if, intelligence is human nature. A child is brought up, being taught, that the mother is separate from it, meaning, the child is also separate entity and the world out there is more separate. Separation starts when this belief takes root. Then there is a series of ‘why’ being taught to the child. Why do you do this and that etc. Elders also howl at each other, wanting explanation for a why and the why becomes the theme of existence. Why is basically, a ‘want’ for explanation which fits the mind or soothens the mind. It is basically to put ‘cause and effect’ in place. Once separation and cause& effect and a basis takes root, the intelligence programmes memory with these settings. Meanings and reasoning are nothing but an extension of cause and effect and separation. Reasoning presumes that there ‘is’ such thing is ‘real’ and separate and gets rooted into the ‘developing’ system. Once reasoning, as a belief, takes root, explanation fills the belief to make them true.  There is no other way to be programmed for ‘us’ as this pattern remains maintained for all ages. It can fall if only the world is ‘unreal’ and this is unacceptable immediately to the whole human race. All memory is a set of meanings to sound and other sensation and a belief that such meanings, being commonly accepted is true. Memory then becomes the basis of continuity and what is happening now, is linked to the past, as if ‘cause and effect’ and memory develops along ‘that’ line.

So what exactly is Karma. Accumulation of memory is Karmic or Karma. Its a default program to a humanity. Addiction is memory based or an effect of memory. So the deeds of the past, are accumulated as memory and memory or knowledge or reasoning through memory decides the way you will behave in future. So knowledge is the basis of reasoning and reaction to one's behavior in life. So how memory is conditioned is how you will behave. Karma is another name for the belief that cause and effect is meaningful and does exist. To create such existence, rooted to the past, howsoever small the past may be, does allow ‘time’ as an extension to make this belief ‘valid’. Now, separation, time and cause & effect becomes the software to  ‘our’ programming.  This software is named KARMIC Software.So Human suffering is an act of conditioning. The only condition that is worth noting is that, we are conditioned to believe that we are 'separate' individual, as if the essence of what we are, is separate from the world. Or 'we' are inside the body and the rest of what is -happens to be the world and this is a 'FACT'. 

When explanations fail to connect a certain effect to any known cause, the void is filled by bringing the unknown to fill the explanation. These take form of previous births, heaven and hell for future births etc etc. Explaining or reasoning and attaching cause and effect or meanings or concepts is all the same game. This game is given the symbol ‘KARMA’. It just means conceptualising or meaning making or cause and effecting the ‘present’ to past or future. This maintains a ‘living’ past, and a ‘living’ future for the truth of the belief in the present living.

When this system falls apart for whatever reason, call it awakening, or brain damage or loss of 'me-sense etc, which is again a meaning making for such happening, it is seen that all concepts, were only for making a reality of separation, which never existed, and thereby, feel the illusion of time and space and also thingness of forms or objectifying forms, as ‘real’ to that of a real ‘me’ is in a real world.

Karma or cause and effect explanations, forms the basis of separation and reality and time, that maintains reality to the world of objects, which is otherwise a simple play of intelligence, the very nature of IT, being a highly hypnotic illusion.

In the absence of ‘Karma’, belief systems, cause and effect, time and space, just falls out of the maintained system, and there is a coming back to ‘what is happening’ here and now, with no basis to believe expect that, what is happening is what is happening and there is no-one to believe or disbelieve, other than the basis of the development of intelligence, playing out that mind-body as separate. This is a state of being childlike.

Anyway, this is the play of intelligence with the theme of ‘KARMA’ as can be enjoyed for what it is or suffered to be what ‘we’ ‘think’ this all is.