The Cause and Purpose of our Destiny
When
individuals are facing challenging situations in their lives, nothing
is less helpful than to try to rationalize with them the cause of their
pain based on possible events that may have their roots anchored in a
former life situation. This type of introspection, far from bringing
relief and healing, may cause the adverse aspects of resentment, anger
and denial, and can easily intensify the amount of pain of their life.
The Karma and the Dharma, at the same time the Cause and the Purpose
of events in our lives, must be studied with care, and always with a
stable state of mind, when the ability to analyze and understand is not
impaired by pain and lower emotions. They are powerful concepts that may
bring light into situations and how they weave themselves in the fabric
of our lives.
One
of the best influences from the eastern wisdom to western minds is
the notion of Karma as a chain of past events, people, and circumstances
that are still present in our lives as challenges to be faced and
overcome.
The word Karma is now a vernacular word incorporated in every single
language and culture of our Western civilization, even for those that do
not necessarily accept the concept as a philosophical reality of the
Eastern thought process.
This one-dimensional outlook accepts the concept as a simplified game
of mathematical proportions, when in fact is much more than simple
addition and subtraction: it is a complicated integral with a cluster of
causes that interact with each other holographically, generating an
effect.
The complete understanding of this concept is difficult because of
how it is currently disseminated as a stand-alone concept. When it was
originally taught, Karma was explained in context with other important
concepts, such as its counterparts Dharma and Samskara.
For the beginning student, Dharma can easily turn out to be a much
more complex concept than Karma. Its original meaning can be assumed to
be something such as correct conduct, purpose, evolution, teaching,
moral rectitude, spirituality and divine purpose. But still after all
these definitions; the concept of Dharma is not easily definable,
because all the translations are incomplete and partial in their
meaningful descriptions.
As
a complementary principal to the notion of Karma, Dharma could be well
defined as a tendency or line of conduct we have to incorporate into our
lives as a result of alignment with our Karma; the direction, or
pathway we must trail during this lifetime.
In fact, our Karma is compounded by many different conflictions,
diverse procedures and circumstances resultant of some harmonic and some
dis-harmonic actions of our re-incarnational path. The tangent
resulting of these multiple actions points towards a determined
direction or course that is aligned with the Universal Divine Order and
our lives. This is Dharma.
Christianity regards Dharma as the “divine plan of our lives”.
Nevertheless, in order to achieve the Dharma in our lives, we need to
first navigate the tormentuos waters of the Karma until there is no
longer dissonance and our internal world is aligned with our exterior
world. When this alignment is achieved, there is no longer a difference
between our Karma and our Dharma. The more we work towards a
transmutation of the Karma, the more we manifest our Dharmic purpose in
life. When the complete strength of the Soul becomes awakened in the
physical form, Karma and Dharma balance and they become the same.
Even in the most painful moments of our lives, we are simultaneously
working our Karma and our Dharma, because ultimately our Dharma is the
entire purpose we came to unfold in this lifetime.
The
comprehension of these two complementary concepts is the keystone for
the building of a strong foundation of knowledge, which will facilitate
the enduring of difficult situations in our existences. Both of these
aggregate unknown and unseen casual forces that tend to shape our
destinies, changing action by action, choice by choice, the overview of
our lives through both nice and less than nice experiences. Pain and
suffering seems to manifest a Dharmic purpose as well as the Karmic
system of rewarding cause and effect.
Through human suffering lie the hard lessons or re-directive guidance
that sows the seeds of tolerance, compassion, empathy and patience.
Source:humanityhealing
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