this karma idea, if we did not know who or what we did in a past life, how can we 'correct' the karma that is with us today ? seems to be a bit unfair, that we are dealing with things from past lives that we know nothing about.
who can really say they knew what they did in the past, based on what they are experiencing in their current life ?
Spirit fox
Unfair? Is it not unfair that Joseph Stalin got away with murder of so many people? Or is it more fair to say that he did not get away with it? That there is justice for all the people that suffered on his account. For he will come back and deal with the karma for those cirimes. 'Know nothing about?' If you were an alcoholic for your last 6 lives and abused many people; would you want to remember this? Or would it be better to forget so that you had a new chance this life without being connected to all the memories of past lives?
Steve Hydonushey, let's cool the astral jets !
I am/was not / talking about Joseph Stalin or any other such figure from history.
I was talking in general about things being unfair. I personally do not know who I was in a past life, or what I did in any of my past lives. So, how can I know what karma I am bringing with me to this life ? In such a case, is it fair that I ( or anyone else ) is dealing with or having to find ways to get rid of such karma ?
Specifically, do you know who you were in your past lives ? Do you know what you did in your past lives that is dictating what is happening in your current life ? I am not asking you to tell me the specifics,I am not being nosey. I am just asking if you know, really know these things ?
Obviously if I was an alcoholic in any of my past lives, I would not want to remember this - and of course, if I had been I would like to have a new chance in life.
So who came up with this karma idea in the first place ? In a way it seems to me that it is just a new age excuse, a way out of taking responsibility for things. If something is not going well in someone's life, they can just say " oh, this is karma from a past life. Not much I can do about it, it has been following me around for years ! "
Spirit fox
