Managing Karma

“Karma” (literally: “action”) is an age-old concept. It is expressed in the West as: “As you sow, so shall you reap.” The basic idea is that our actions create vibrations in the universe. Life-supporting actions bring good fortune while actions that hurt ourselves or others bring unhappy consequences. But the laws of karma function in a much more complicated fashion than is generally thought. Having engaged in life-damaging action, it is often assumed that we have to pay our “debt” by suffering. But there are ways to shorten the period of suffering and ease the severity of suffering, including special procedures done on our behalf and good deeds that we undertake that address the wrong we did previously.

In our webinar, we’ll examine many aspects of the laws of karma. We will draw on ideas expressed in the Mahabharata and the portion of that work called the Bhagavad-Gita,…