Karma..What is it?? What does it mean?? The Hindus believe that it is the universal law of Cause and Effect.  Basically, you reap what you sow. Our choices and their consequences keep changing the reality we experience. Karma is just the consequences of old choices - old beliefs and old attitudes - which unconsciously create and re-create similar consequences, until we become conscious of them and choose to change them. In the ancient Sanskrit language "karma" meant "action". Karma is not a punishment but an opportunity to correct old mistakes and make ourselves and our lives better. Karma is uncorrected errors.

As Werner Erhardt once said: "The Truth shall set you free, but first it might piss you off!" Karma is a constant reminder to challenge us to perceive the Truth, even though we may perceive it as a thorn in our side. Karma is more persistent than our own stubborn refusal to see the ultimate universal Truths; so eventually we will learn the hard way, even if we refuse to learn the easy way. Often we refuse to change until it becomes too painful not to.

Only when we realize and accept that we are responsible for creating our own karma, can we choose to change it by making better choices this time around. This is the essential meaning of the old adage: "What goes around, comes around." What we chose in the past is coming around again.  We can better choices when similar situations come up again and change the outcome.

In a nutshell, Life is all about the choices we as human beings CHOOSE to make. We choose what to do, what not to do, what makes us happy. We are all in control of our own Karma. Make the right choices, if you screw up, change it.  Life's setbacks are not punitive, but proofe that's not the way to live. (Michael Star 2001)