June 30, 1963 Dear Gail:
The subject is “How Much Effect Does Karma Work In the Minute Acts Of Man?” A subject which must always be included in the study of spiritual problems, and which could easily be answered in a sentence. The sentence being: “Karma is always at work, in every thought and action of the individual while in those planes below the Second Grand Division.”
However, there must be some explanation of this statement.
Again I repeat as in my last letter the history of man is a study of his fight against the negative forces which must strive to hold him in the physical universe. Karma therefore is the law of the universe, and it must operate according to what its modus operandi is — and according to what the God Kal Niranjan has established for it to work in the lives of man. No man, regardless of his status, except the great masters, is free of the Law of Karma; it works in every act of mind, body and Jivatma — this is the Law, and all other laws are modeled upon it. Our Courts of Justice are based upon this law, the Law of Moses is based upon it, as well as the Code of Hammurabi, the Ten Commandments, the Moral Code, the Protestant Ethical Code, the Constitution of United States and the Declaration of Independence, and of course, The Bill of Rights, Rights of Man, etc., including all the laws of man, and the major law of the East called the Law of Manu. I finally got most of them down.
When man works upon the theory that man-made punishment is illegal then he is working toward the proper goal, for it is not man’s place to punish criminals in the sense of capital punishment, as the Law of Karma will take care of
any crime. I’m not selling the idea openly that no man should split his neighbor’s head, or covet his wife, for all the laws of morality take care of these questions. But what is going to be the punishment of such crimes according to man-made law? This is not an easy answer, and to draw a flat reply is lacking an open mind, for how is one to handle criminals, is something I’m not trained to give answers. But from the overall view of what has gone on in the past I believe that we as a race are certainly giving more study to handling the problems of the criminals and insane.
Unless you trained yourself to see the Law of Karma working out in the individual, nation, race and world, it is hard to understand problems which might be otherwise simple to see and know. So many times I’m lost in my own feelings, prejudices and attitudes that my mind doesn’t open wide enough to see the universality of Karma. But once you take an objective view of the situation it is easy to get an insight on how Karma is working through the life of the individual. Last night in the movie I was taking an objective view of “Hud” and his family — how that the situation created in their lives had drawn them together; it was a case of pure Karma that each in his way had lived a life of violence and got themselves together in this particular life.
Alma had a violent past; Grandpa had lived a hard, but violent frontier life, Lun was living on the edge of violence, but Hud was the force which tied them all together with his uncontrolled energies. The dead father and mother (Lun’s parents) had also figured in the story, both resulting from acts of violence. You see part of the Law of Karma is this:
Whatever is drawn to you is the result of your attitude!
This is a most interesting study of the mind, provided one would want to spend his time in a study of Mind. But this is foolish, for such a study is endless and one would spend
years taking classwork under learned professors and doing laboratory work. So the answer is to study God, and all else comes to you. Now I don’t mean to say that you start out on a long training or study program for an exhausting study of God, but whatever you wish to know at times is to go into your own laboratory— within yourself and learn.
The one thing which beats the Karmic Law (oh yes, there is no discouragement about having to stay under the law of karma) is the higher law, and that is the Law of Love, and this law is a most peculiar sort of law, not anything like we hear so much about from the half-baked metaphysical theories on the Law of Love. However, I think that Stella Mann, who is really not a thinker, nor can ever be classed as a hard-hitting metaphysical student, wrote a book (three books in fact) on the Law of Love which is exceedingly good. It is in the public library. Read it sometime.
Even though the puny metaphysical cults are confusing and mixed up, they are doing some good with the teaching of their limited knowledge of this higher law. The Christian faith tries to take credit on the Law of Love by pointing out that Christ was the true savior because he brought to the human race the law which broke the Karmic ties of man.
They point out that the old Jewish law was “An Eye for an Eye and a Tooth for a Tooth.” The exacting revenge which the Karmic Law always takes, and that Christ came to earth to show there was another way of getting past this Law! True, but so did Buddha, and a number of other saviors including Krishna, as he points out in the Gita!
The Karmic Law is exacting, so in detailed that whatever impression is made in this work is registered by the Jivatma or mind and put away in the file cabinet as a picture.
(Remember the letter on facsimiles or pictures?) The reaction to the situation again occurring is a karmic act, or the reaction
to the picture brought back into the vision of inner image is also a karmic act — the karmic act is made in two manners, when it occurs and when the Jivatma looks at the file picture again, and this is why we are constantly taking pictures within so that the Jivatma can have them to look at. Now if it didn’t while in this universe then it would borrow pictures to look at; this is one reason why movies and TV are so popular — it gives the Jivatma some pictures to look at — even though artificial pics. When one has a picture which makes him ashamed and to feel guilty, he needs to get rid of that pic; often self-forgivenss causes him to drop it, or maybe he can be pro-cessed (psychoanalyzed) so it will be pulled out. But normally the Law of Love will take care of many of his problems.
I paused to point out here that since the emphasis has been put so much upon the Law of Love that politicians, clergymen, parents, and party-poopers are using it for their own convenience, to get others in line, to conform to their wishes, or the laws of society. Example, we are now told to love our black race, etc., not that I object to accepting the black race as a first class citizen, but do not love anyone or anything because somebody else desires it; I give my goodwill to all, but my love is special, and that goes only to those whom I wish to love, for I have not the capacity of a saint to spread universal love to all things, all people. Maybe someday I can learn universal love.
I am not certain if this letter is explanatory on the detailed effects of the Law of Karma, but there is so much you must see between the lines and the readings you must do. Read the book “Many Mansions,” by Geminini. It is a good study of the Karmic Law.
More later.
Paul
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