Re: Hari Krishna and Forgiveness
I would not say it is so simple. Aspirant has a point. Why do wealthy politicians live in luxury and yet they have no moral values? Why do beauty queens get name and fame and then live lives of pointless materialism with little or no spiritual values? The reality is that karma is quite complicated, because the reactions we enjoy or suffer can be from actions committed in any of our millions of previous lives, or even within this life itself. Thus, we are indeed reaping what we sow, but over countless lifetimes.
There is another point here, and that is that "good" karma can be binding without any jnaana to point to a higher purpose in living. The corrupt politician enjoys his wealth from previous "good" karma, but will earn much bad karma for his corruption in the hear and now, and he may suffer the reaction for it in this life but most likely will do so in a future life.
Karma is like the spoke of a turning wheel - sometimes up, sometimes down. The purpose of life is to break free of this cyclical mode of existence.
Philosoraptor
"Wise men speak because they have something to say. Fools speak because they have to say something." - Plato
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