What are the karmic consequences of a grudge?
When a person asks this sort of thing I can be pretty sure that they have in mind the troublesome distortion of the real meaning of ‘karma’, which the dark force has cultivated in various religious, spiritual and healing traditions. I explain about the real and distorted meanings of karma in Karma – Cutting Through the Confusion. So, I reject any notion that you will get some sort of punishment (i.e. from some external force or presence) for holding a grudge (i.e. because it is a Bad Thing). However, that is far from the end of the story, because even with the undistorted meaning of ‘karma’ (i.e. the accumulation of weakenings and distortions in your non-physical aspects caused by unharmonious choices, events and situations in your life) you do gain a karma from holding a grudge. Indeed the grudge itself is a karma, but as long as it is held, it continues to generate further levels of karma through the ways that it causes your outlook and behaviour to be distorted and thus stressful to
