They all coexist without canceling each other.
The word karma is often used by aspiring spiritualists, and why not, karma makes sense. Let’s look at the ancient Vedic texts of India, where the idea of karma originates, and what they have to say on the subject.
This idea that we can and should forgive everyone comes from [...]
This is an excerpt from the 13th chapter of the Bhagavad-gita As It Is, Srila Prabhupada’s commentated translation of the most famous spiritual text of India:
Text 21: Nature is said to be the cause of all material causes and effects, whereas the living entity is the cause of the various sufferings and enjoyments in this [...]
Americans love their pets. We feed them better than most humans in third world countries are fed. We dote on them with toys at Christmas, and we award them the honorary status of “children.” But do we acknowledge that all creatures are, like us, spirit souls? Do we honor them as living entities working their [...]
Yeah, it is pretty dumb to get born and die over and over again. But sometimes desires and dreams overthrow our better judgment and we do dumb things. That’s basically how we got involved in this cycle of birth and death to begin with.
The idea that reincarnation is a natural process that all conscious selves
undergo when their physical bodies die is supported by Stevenson’s statements that it is easy to find persons who claim to remember a previous life.