Alpona painting in Bengal, photo by Sudhiranjan Mukherjee

Karma

I sometimes come across people who say they “don’t believe in karma.” I believe this stems from a misunderstanding of karma as a purely supernatural force.

Karma is not something you believe in: it is cause and effect, as real and insentient as the force of gravity. Karma is a shorthand for everything a being can experience and the causes that lead to these experiences.

You touch the fire and it burns you. That’s karma. Your karma is that you are a being of flesh and your body cannot tolerate certain elements.

Your family has a history of cancer, and you develop cancer. That’s karma. Your karma is that you carry the genetic inclination for certain diseases.

You encounter a challenge and overcome it against all odds. That’s karma. Your karma is that you had the skills and resources to achieve the outcome you desired.

When we observe certain phenomena in the world, we understand that this was possible because there was the necessary karma for it to occur - the necessary causes were present. Sometimes we label this as ‘bad’ karma or ‘good’ karma, purely because of how we perceive that experience. There will have been innumerable factors involved in that experience coming to pass. Hence, karma can be understood in a purely mundane context.

Since we spiritual practitioners tend to get involved with magic, gods, spirits and other realms, then naturally we observe that there are additional ways in which karma can work. Sometimes on a scale that is difficult to comprehend and spans lifetimes.

When we understand karma, that is, cause and effect, we come to understand some of the myriad of influences upon our experience. Sometimes we understand enough that we can change the karma that we have.

In my opinion, karma makes the most sense in the context of rebirth and spiritual inheritance: the idea that there is some continuity after death and the karma of one life can be inherited by another.

The way that I personally understand karma is that it is like an attunement, or a momentum. Every action, every thought, is like a movement that creates a gust of wind that pushes us toward a certain outcome. Repeated actions of a certain nature solidify this momentum, like gathering winds that create a storm, or trails of water that carve a riverbed into the earth.

Across lifetimes, this becomes especially powerful. We may find ourselves repeatedly experiencing certain themes in our lives. The same kinds of fortune and misfortune that come back in different forms, created by the momentum of our inherited karma. It takes persistent effort to escape what has been ingrained into our experience and go beyond what our past has shaped us to be.

Karma must also be understood in the context of interdependence. We do not exist in isolation, our own karma will impact the karma of others, and vice versa. Everything in the world has its own karma, a way it can influence other things: how we navigate these influences determines our fate.

Don’t be daunted by the enormity of it all. A ship that sails across the sea will not encounter every wave on the ocean, only the ones in its path. We have the choice to ride upon those waves, or we can learn to read the winds and waters and try to change our course.

A woman prays during a sit-in demonstration rally to demand of recognizing Sarna Dharma as a religion in Ranchi, capital of the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand, Oct. 18, 2022. Tribal groups have held protests in support of giving Sarna Dharma official religion status in the run-up to the upcoming national census, which has citizens state their religious affiliation. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

What does your url mean?

It comes from the Sanskrit shloka ( a shloka can be loosely translated to a "verse"), which goes "Ahimsaa paramo dharma" meaning non-violence is the highest moral virtue.

It is a phrase mentioned several times in the hindu epic, Mahabharata though it became popular because it was used by Gandhi during the non-violence movements for independence of India.

I changed the shloka a bit to make it the opposite of what it originally meant which I thought was kind of silly, I guess, I dunno-

So, my url literally means "Violence is the highest moral virtue" :p

idk... i think we need more Dharma & Greg content...

Jack Kerouac, "The Dharma Bums"

Flashback Friday: Station 3, The Swan.

Chhath Puja, North India

ok we know the space theme, we love it, but there is SO much potential now that there’s 4.

fire, earth, water, and air.

wands, pentacles, swords, and cups.

also, keeping with the space theme, our solar system is split into two groups of planets.

two groups of 4.

November 2022, Ranchi, India: Tribeswomen listen to Salkhan Murmu, former lawmaker and community activist, during a sit-in demonstration to demand the recognition of Sarna Dharma as a religion in Ranchi. Murmu’s sit-in protests in several Indian states have drawn crowds of thousands.

Photograph: Altaf Qadri/AP

Give it up for the loving couple who are very much in love! 🥳 (I swear I am still working on main fic... but I need to also write this)

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“I have better defense against such things. Truth be told, Ikki, I have a vested interest in your brother…”

“Let me remind you that he’s thirteen.”

Shaka finally snapped and opened his eyes to glare at the ghost, “Do you have to take the first part of everything I say and run with it?! Does it amuse you to spit blasphemy with every breath you don’t take?”

Ikki’s grin was smug. He truly had that devil may care attitude. “It does. I love it when stuffy guys like you lose it, I just don’t always have the chance to push their buttons like this myself.”"

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the puppet unsubs friend. who was also a puppet. is also in dharma and greg.