Karma Is! [Part 3]

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We lack omniscience. We cannot see one minute ahead of where we are. As such, we can but have a limited understanding of the metaphysical laws that govern the cosmos.

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We are saddened by the news that it was a baby’s fate to die from cot-death or that of a toddler to be mowed down by a drunk driver who ploughed through the fence of the garden where this child was playing. Beyond a humane emotional response, and for practical reasons, we need to accept that such tragedies happen for a reason, however nebulous to us.  The reason is that of karma needing amendment.

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We can be as sentimental as we wish for as long as we wish, but we must not forget that a child’s soul is, in fact, quite an ancient soul which has a purpose to fulfil in this lifetime. If this means being incarnated in a particular baby with a preordained short life, so be it.

As callous as it may seem, I am coming to accept that such a child’s karmic purpose in this lifetime is to give the ones who are grieving the pre-destined wake-up they need in order to tend their spiritual selves. Which is not necessarily the response generated by a personal loss of this magnitude. Often, in fact, deep grief drives us further into our mechanical selves and makes up even more dependent on emotional crutches.

What? Lesson not learned? Like at school, we will be given another opportunity to learn what we must learn, either in this lifetime or in the next or in the ones after that.

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Once our karmic rendez-vous is locked into our energy field and our nemesis is set on course, not unlike a *sleeper* spy, nothing can prevent our destiny from happening – neither how *good* we may have been, nor any geographical distance, however great. Though we know such things happen all of the time, here is a sample confirmation of what I am talking about.

Crash bus had been overtaking

The tour bus that crashed in Egypt killing six Australians overtook a second bus just before it rolled, the operator of the tour said today.

Witnesses have stated that the driver had not been speeding, that he had been driving well up to that fateful moment and that there was no explanation for his decision to overtake at that specific moment. The bus driver survived, but he has to process his role in this tragedy. Here again the bus is only the instrument.

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Lawyer shot down aiding woman

A GOOD Samaritan shot dead after going to help a woman in distress in Melbourne this morning was a 43-year-old solicitor.

The unnamed lawyer was one of two men who went to the aid of the woman who was struggling with a man near a taxi on the corner of Flinders Lane and William Street, in Melbourne’s CBD, about 8.15am (AEST).

In all, three people were shot before the gunman fled.

The solicitor was shot in the chest at point-blank range and died at the scene an hour later, despite the efforts of paramedics.

The other man who attempted to intervene, a 30-year-old, is in a critical condition in hospital after surgery.

The woman, 24, is in a serious but stable condition in the intensive care ward of Royal Melbourne Hospital.

Police said this afternoon they had identified a person of interest believed to be the gunman.

The gunman was on the run this morning after shooting three people on the corner of Flinders Lane and William Street, killing the man and wounding a woman and a man.

The gunman fled on foot after the 8.15am shooting and police later found a handgun at a nearby construction site, which was believed to be that used in the incident.

As heavily-armed police searched for the shooter, aged in his late 20s or early 30s, office workers were told to stay put and not panic.

Witnesses and police said the gunman appeared to be involved in a violent domestic dispute with a woman in a taxi and when two men intervened, he shot all three down.

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This sad story appeared on the front page of my local newspaper, The Courier-Mail, on the 18th of June, 2007, at the time I was writing this article.

Like that of most, upon hearing the news that such a nice man had been blasted in the chest at point blank range in such particular circumstances, my first thought was how unfair.

Moriya, however, was quick to point out that this death, like all other deaths, particularly violent ones, happen so that the survivors have a chance to redirect/amend their lives by looking inward. Their karmic mission is to refrain from knee-jerk responses intended to pacify their ego-persona, whether by seeking *vengeance* as opposed to justice through the Courts or revenge beyond the Courts; whether by indulging in endless grief; or by becoming agora-phobic or bitter or nuts or whatever – further starving their soul and adding more negative entries to their energy field. If this happens then, truly, it can be said that that person’s death will have been in vain.

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If we remember that our souls are ancient and that they have not always been incarnated in such wholesome and honest ego-personae as ourselves, then a swift death, here and now, can be attributed to amended karma. After all, one of our past incarnations might have been strung up on a medieval torture rack and pulled apart until death ensued. Or in more modern times, s/he might have died a slow painful death in a hospital bed or left bleeding to death in a back lane. In this lifetime, however, as in the case of the Good Samaritan in Melbourne, it was estimated that a quick, painless death was the just reward for something beyond our understanding.

Copyright by C.C. Saint-Clair, 2008

By day, a teacher of Senior English and French in Brisbane, Australia, and, by night, first a writer of novels and now a writer of spiritual material, I am on a quest of sorts – I am searching for a connection to my soul, right here, right now.
Admittedly, I have an ulterior motive – quite a strong one at that: I am trying to edit some karma out of my energy field by altering its properties.
This, from me, who a couple of years ago thought about my soul as often as the molecular composition of my body, which was never.

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