Definition: The sum of person’s actions in this and previous states of existence, viewed  as deciding their fate in future existences.  Informal destiny  or fate following as affect from cause.  ”In other words what you sew so shall you reap in this life and  following lives.”

Okay that seems simple enough don’t you think?  If you rob someone you are going to get robbed in this life or another  or possibly go to jail. Which brings to mind this story of a close friend.

My friend (we will call him Al) worked for an insurance agent who was also trying to obtain loans for individuals through  his make shift lender. Interest rates were very high at this time somewhere in the vicinity  of  21%.  Al stated  he knew the lender’s facility was  set up in the Bahamas.  He  also saw telexes being faxed to Mexico City and China from the insurance agents home.  What he did not know was that it was all a scam.

Al never made very little  money waiting for the so called lenders to approve a loan.  The  money he did make was from the insurance agent selling some policies in order for the client to obtain a loan. Unfortunately they never  came through because it was a scam.  Eventually he  was arrested and taken to jail for being part of the scam .  Al was an  honest person and did not realize he was being duped.

Al told me he called psychic who stated to him, “you were once a thief in a previous life and are now paying for that misdeed.”  Al was eventually proven innocent (he had a lawyer) but had to go through the turmoil of possibly going to jail for a long period of time.  Bad karma will eventually catch up to us. There is no escape!

The actions of past lives determine the conditions and circumstances of the present life, and the actions of the present life have their share in determining the conditions and circumstances of future lives.  Successive incarnations of the individual soul yield their full significance only in the light to of the operation of the law of karma, “Meher Baba”

Yes, there is also good karma as well which will determine future lives.  These individuals will experience the pleasures of heaven.  As an example, if one loves music just thinking about it will provide joy.  The pleasures in heaven are more so then the pleasures of Earthly life since one does not have a physcial body.

When one dies, that individual severs connection with the  Earthly body and connects with his/her Astral Body which is much finer.  From their that individual stays connected with Earth for a  period of four days and then can experience the heaven or hell state.  Time in the Astral Plane (heaven and hell) are much different then time on Earth.

If humanity understood the reality of karma, people would not be so foolish to take advantage of others through greed, power, control, etc.

I am sure like many of you their  have been numerous e-mails stating that you have won a lottery from some foreign country or someone is giving you their sob story.  Sometimes I e-mail these individuals to inform them that their deeds have dire consequences.

If they knew that their is no escape from greed, manipulation of others they would not try to take advantage of gullible individuals.  When a person dies they must play back on the others side (Astral Plane) all their transgressions.  They will do it with their astral body which is not dense as it is here on the Earth plane.

These individuals will play back their earthly life and feel the pain they have caused others ten fold and experience tremendous suffering.  When they take on another body they will also experience much suffering do to  karma (the sum of a person’s actions in this or previous states of existence, viewed as deciding their fate in future existences.)

There was an individual who, in a past life, had stolen from others and in this life had to pay the consequences of those past actions.  This individual was in a loan business as a salesman trying to help people get loans for their enterprises.  The salesman worked unknowingly with an owner who manipulated others.

It so happened that eventually the local authorities arrested  the manager for taking advantage of  others in order to make money.  The salesman, who was honest and truly trying to help other people obtain loans was also arrested.

It happened that an undercover police officer had recorded conversations between the manager and other people who were also trying to scam others.  The salesman was not privy of the goings on.  The salesman was arrested because of a past life stealing from others and had to experience being put in jail.

Yes, there is no escape and if the people of the world knew that karma and past lives are a part of our journey towards God these transgressions would not happen.