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Law of Karma

My question is how to deal with countless past mistakes that we can not correct, but that cause frustration and hopelessness in life. Many present conditions are due to the consequences of past deeds. How do we deal with this? There is always the thought that things would be different if I had acted in a different way.๐Ÿซจ๐Ÿ’ฅโณ๐Ÿ™„

‘Mistakes and errors’ are part of the evolutionary process and common to everyone. In the eyes of the Divine they are not mistakes but steps

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How do we reconcile the Gitaโ€™s teaching to surrender the results of action without obsessing overย Paapย andย Punyaย with the Jain emphasis on sin, guilt, and atonement, and what are Lord Shivaโ€™s (Mahadev) unique teachings that made him so beloved even by theย Asuras? ๐Ÿ”ฑ๐Ÿ๐ŸŒ™๐Ÿ‚โš–๏ธ

Paap and Punya are one among different systems created by the human mind to navigate their life. They are helpful and needed at one step

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If Karma is fundamentally a process of learning from ignorance rather than a system of punishment, how do we reconcile the suffering caused by “asuric” acts committed in that ignorance, and how can one maintain faith in the Divine’s control while struggling to see the spiritual purpose behind such cruelty? โš–๏ธโ™ป๏ธ๐Ÿชƒ๐Ÿ”„๐Ÿ™๐Ÿป

Yes, thank you for the question and your dilemma or confusion as you call it is quite understandable. In Indian thought, the root of evil

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The principle of karma is based on progress and development, and the energy we release while performing any action (through emotions, thoughts, intentions, and actions) returns to us. So, does this energy come back in the next birth as well (which we might call destiny or Prarabdha)? And is the coming of this energy determined by the conscious entity or by nature๐Ÿคจ?

The law of Karma is ingrained in nature as part of a vast and complex process through which the soul evolves. But the soul has

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