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1. The Law
of Karma

2. Law of Karma
(Law of Cause and Effect; Action and Reaction;
Equilibrium)
Also called the Law of Equilibrium. Every action will have its
corresponding consequences, whether favorable or unfavorable. It
applies to all existent beings.
Personal Karma operates on the physical, emotional and mental levels.
“The only decree of Karma—an eternal and immutable decree—is
absolute Harmony in the world of matter as it is in the world of Spirit. It
is not, therefore, Karma that rewards or punishes, but it is we, who
reward or punish ourselves according to whether we work with, through
and along with nature, abiding by the laws on which that Harmony
depends, or—break them.” (SD I:643)

3. Equivalents of Karma
Greeks – Nemesis and Fates
Christianity – Providence
(minus design)
Islam – Kismet
Kabbalah – Tikun
Buddhism – Karma or kamma

4. Two Aspects of Karma
• Karma in general – this the general
law of cause and effect applicable to
all manifested beings, whether
human or not.
• Personal karma – this refers to the
karmic links caused by a particular
ego

5. Three Kinds of Karma
• Unripe karma – those not yet ripe for this
life (part of accumulated karma [sanchita
karma])
• Ripe karma (Prarabdha)– those which will
happen in this life
• Present karma (Agami) – the new causes
that we generate at each moment

6. The Causes of Destiny
• PAST KARMA
Sam
ska
Circumstances
ra
Events
Relationships
Philosophy of
life
Character & Habits
• PRESENT ACTION
- Thought – Feelings
- Actions
DESTINY

7. Cause and Effect
Benevolent deeds

Good environment
Hurtful deeds

Difficult environment
Aspirations

Ideals
Aspirations/Desires

Capacities
Sustained thoughts

Character
Successes

Enthusiasm
Experiences

Wisdom
Painful experiences

Conscience
Will to serve

Spirituality

8. 
[Paul:] Be not deceived; God is
not mocked: for whatsoever a
man soweth, that shall he also
reap. Gal 6:7
[Jesus:] With what measure ye
mete, it shall be measured to you.
Mark 4:24 (also Luke 6:38)
Ye have plowed wickedness, ye
have reaped iniquity. Hos 10:13

9. Pres. C.P. Garcia on
Karma
“Life is what you make it. With the necessary
consequences of your good deeds, you build
the ladder of which rung by rung you climb
to sublime destiny, or, as necessary effect of
your wrong or bad acts, you build the
dungeon of your own life’s
imprisonment or bondage.
There is no escape from the
universal law of cause and
effect. You always reap what
you sow.”

10. Group Karma
• Family karma – Arroyo, Marcos, Bush,
etc.
• Organizational karma – Catholic,
Muslim, Ateneo, Sigma Rho, etc.
• National or racial karma – Filipino,
Japanese, Indian, etc.
• Global karma – environment, world
wars, etc.

11. The ONE LIFE is closely related to the one law which
governs the World of Being—KARMA. Exoterically, this
is simply and literally “action,” or rather an “effectproducing cause.” Esoterically it is quite a different thing
in its far-fetching moral effects. It is the unerring LAW OF
RETRIBUTION.
H. P. Blavatsky

12. The Lipikas or
the Four Maharajahs
These are the mysterious beings involved in the workings
of personal karma. They are sometimes called the “Lords
of Karma.”
“They are the Recorders or Annalists who impress on the
(to us) invisible tablets of the Astral Light, ‘the great
picture-gallery of eternity’—a faithful record of every act,
and even thought, of man, of all that was, is, or ever will
be, in the phenomenal Universe.” (SD I, 104) This is the
“Akashic Record.”
In Christian theology, they are involved in the “Book of
Life” (Revelation). Also called “Four Recording Angels.”

13. Inner Causes More Powerful
“It is a law of occult dynamics that
a given amount of energy
expended on the spiritual or astral
plane is productive of far greater
results than the same amount
expended on the physical objective
plane of existence.” (SD I:644)

14. Awareness
Understanding of life or
philosophy of life
Thought reaction
patterns
Emotional reaction
patterns/Habits
Actions/Words
Effects

15. Karma in Daily Life
• Be aware of automatic reaction patterns (push buttons) and process
them off
• Be aware of Habits and change those which are incompatible with
highest ideals
• Let all actions be benevolent (with kindness and goodwill)
• Let all thoughts be objective, impersonal and benevolent
• Choose reading materials (food for mind) and conversation groups
• Daily awareness of thoughts, feelings, actions and bodily state
• Practice meditation to develop this peripheral awareness

16. Vehicle
Higher Self
(Spirit;
Atma)
Function
Spark of the Divine; True Self
within
Karmaless Action
(Karma Yoga)
Spiritual
Seat of spirituality and true
Consciousn intuition; where illumination
ess (Buddhi) and enlightenment occurs
Higher
Mental
Abstract thinking; formless
Lower
Mental
Concrete thinking; with forms
Emotion
Seat of feelings
Physical
Etheric
Dense
The double; vehicle of prana or
ch’i
Physical, liquid and gaseous
Impersonal
Personal

17. The Causes of Destiny
• PAST KARMA
Sam
ska
Circumstances
ra
Events
Relationships
Philosophy of
life
Character & Habits
• PRESENT ACTION
- Thought – Feelings
- Actions
DESTINY