What is karma?
Your karma is a reference that primarily represents how your comments have been moderated in the past. Karma is structured on the following scale “Terrible, Bad, Neutral, Positive, Good, and Excellent.” If a comment you post is moderated up, your karma will rise. Consequently, if you post a comment that has been moderated down, your karma will fall. In addition to moderation, other things factor into karma as well. You can get some karma by submitting a story that we decide to post. Also, metamoderation can cause your karma to change. This encourages good moderators, and ideally removes moderator access from bad ones. Note that being moderated Funny doesn’t help your karma. You have to be smart, not just a smart-ass.
Karma is the law of action and reaction (cause and effect) applied to life. The ãtmã reaps fruits, good or bad, according to its past and present actions; these fruits are experienced either in this life or in future lives. God is the giver of the fruits of all living beings’ actions. Karma helps explain the disparities that occur in the human population such as: prosperity or poverty, happiness or misery, good health, illness, or disability. Behind every individual’s existence there partly lies his own past deeds, which are directly responsible for many of the events during his lifespan, be it painful or pleasant. We are what we are because of our deeds and actions.
Karma is probably one of the most misunderstood aspects of life. There is a saying: what goes around comes around. In the Universal Understanding of the God Consciousness, we call this the Universal Law of Cause and Effect. This law states that for every cause we create, every action we take, a cycle is started. This cycle will eventually bring back an effect to us sometime in the future. This effect can come back to us in a matter of days or it can be lifetimes. If you throw a pebble in a pool of water, it causes a rippling effect from the center going out to the edge and then rippling back. Think of yourself as being that pebble in the center of the pool, and the edge is the universe. Your actions, being the cause, create a rippling effect, which will eventually come back to you. The circumstances of the effect and how you choose to deal with that effect become your karma. Think of karma as the opportunity to make a better choice. Think of karma as the opportunity to learn and become
