Overall, karma operates to accelerate soul
and soul group evolution, namely, the dissolution of
each and every mind/body/spirit distortion to total
realization of love-unity. Being "finished with
karma" equates to completion of the long path of
individuated light-spark soul progress, and occurs
only with final fusion into the formless light of
the One Infinite. Obviously, anyone who publicly
claims such achievement is self-deluded.
Technically, this normally occurs late within what
is called 7th density, which is akin to the
achievement of "sat-chit-ananda"
(truth-consciousness-bliss), the term used in the
Hindu yogic system. It is comparable to the state of
"avatara" and Buddha -- complete and perfect
enlightenment. Of course, it can be achieved here in
3D, but again, it is exceptionally rare to find such
a one on the world stage.
Karmic law is at the heart of all evolutionary
catalysis, as the primary force behind increasingly
higher dimensional progress and consciousness
expansion of all souls. Of course, the specific
forms of karmic expression (and this entire
discussion) become increasingly subtle and
harmonious above 3rd density life. This is beyond
the current level of discussion, of course.
Essentially, the ultimate goal of love-unity
realization requires dissolution of all fixed belief
in substantial duality, and is accompanied by
absolute mastery and freedom within all realms of
the octave system. This can only be achieved when
souls realize the true nature of all manifest
catalyst to likewise be non-substantial (so-called
"emptiness" or sunyata in the Buddhist system) and
imbued with essential love (the quality of infinite
light being absolute beneficence).
Such transmuted-being realization defines the
operative parameters of attaining return to the
condition of oneness with all Creation and all forms
of life.
The existence of karmic law itself is an expression
of boundless Logoic love, and its nature and
function is to continually encourage realization of
the underlying, immanent unity of all being and
becoming. Bringing this down to personal life, we
find continual activity of karmic law in human
affairs.
Normally, karma is only recognized as such when its
expression surpasses a certain threshold of
energetic charge to the individual. However, this
tendency to focus on that which indicates "contrast'
(bound up with perception of conflict and
complexity) fails to see and appreciate the greater
bulk of karmic operation in personal life.
As the teacher Djwhal Khul once noted, souls have
far more "good karma" than "bad," though most of us
pay far more attention to the latter, as contrast,
conflict and complexity capture attention far more
rapidly than harmony. Nevertheless, this ‘negative
focus’ is the norm simply because the internal
condition of soul itself is absolute harmony -- thus
the perception of non-harmony is internally
incongruent with our true nature.
Of course, this innate harmony forms the subtle
background-field against which all experience of
apparent disharmony strikes a clear, discordant
vibratory note. As the soul seeks to impress its own
being upon the manifest body-mind-spirit (which is
none other than itself, in final analysis), there is
created a sort of non-echo in the soul-personality
axis -- which is the esoteric cause of all spiritual
seeking, in the first place.
More practically, most souls recognize the operation
of karmic law only according to the dichotomous
experience of pleasure/pain, and thus remain bound
to the limitations of this bipolar view. No doubt,
such shallow comprehension of karmic operation also
ensures a limited ability to work with the law and
process karmic experience.
Perceiving the operation of karmic law only when
life-catalyst elicits a certain intensity of
personal reaction, then placing it simply into a
static categorization of pleasure/pain, indicates a
somewhat early stage of realizing karmic process.
A more advanced view eliminates this polarity
altogether, and helps us appreciate that all
experience (whether pleasant or otherwise) serves
the purpose of encouraging soul achievement of
complete non-distortion. Such a view recognizes
karmic law as an intrinsically impersonal universal
force, and goes even further to acknowledges the
existence of apparent causality itself but a
perceptual 'trick' of limited mind development.
When consciousness is sufficiently enlightened by
itself, apparent causality is resolved into complete
omnipresent simultaneity. At that stage, souls are
no longer bound by time-space and karmic law, and
may enter the ranks of those who administer the
operation of karma within such realms of apparent
duality, an example of which is our 3rd dimension.
Furthermore, the distinction between "good karma"
and "bad" is misleading because the determination of
karmic law proceeds from levels of consciousness far
beyond all such polarized judgement. Its practical
operation really has little do with human
conceptions of reward and punishment (as such deeper
belief bases give rise to the "good/bad" dichotomy
in the first place). Enormous confusion has been
spawned by this particular interpretation, as
evidenced by the distortions of all major religious
teachings on heaven.
Plainly, the dispensation of soul and soul group
karma is actually a morally neutral phenomenon. To
the Logoi, there are no so-called "moral"
valuations, only a straight recognition of
metaphysical free will choice (that of the
personality and its higher aspect which realizes the
complete Path to be trod). Beyond this, the Logoi
provide the needed structuring of the laws of
Creation (one of which is karmic law) to encourage
further soul progress according to soul decision.
From the evolutionary perspective of Logos and
Higher Self (the primary agents of our overshadowing
self-luminous intelligence), what souls choose to do
in response to karmic outpouring is really the
central issue -- not whether or not karmic down flow
is deemed good or bad. The purpose of evolution and
life itself is not enjoyment, though increased
pleasure does result from wise soul choice along the
path.
The Creator and Creation are not much interested in
static rewards and punishment. What is achieved
today may surely be reversed tomorrow, and what is
useful catalyst to one soul may be absolutely
invisible to another -- all of which is as it should
be. In light of this, it is quite short sighted to
define karma in terms of good/bad, or pleasure/pain.
As the central and most important outcropping of the
Law of Free Will, the primary function of karmic law
is to catalyze soul choice, first and foremost, and
from the evolutionary purist view, simply and only
for its own sake. As "the purpose of Creation is
that the Creator may experience Itself," freely
established choice is the primary nutriment that
feeds the boundless divine experience. From this
perspective as well, terms such as "good karma" and
"bad" have little importance and no use.
Returning to the more mundane, but no less important
consideration of personal human life, it should be
known that most instances of above-threshold karmic
operation classed along the "good/bad" continuum are
simply a return to the sender of energies and
tendencies previously set in motion by that soul
itself. Prior acts of the evolving and reincarnating
mind/body/spirit complex, the personal triadic web
of the soul field in time-space set all individual
karmic streams in motion, which provide the main
working field of our own growth. |