What you are or are not, you have earned-the good, the bad and the nasty. That is the nature of karma. What you do or do not possess you can change. That is also the nature of karma. That is because karma is not fate.
Karma can help us understand how we got where we are today-our life circumstances, the events going on around us and the people we seem to attract.
It does not tell us how we will react to those circumstances, events and persons. That is entirely up to us and that determines our destiny. We use our free will to create karma. We can use our free will to transform it. The only limits to our progress are those, which we have created ourselves.
If our karma dictates premature death then it is possible, for example, to earn an extension of our life through a change of heart. If we are of service to life with all our heart, then life will give us something in return. Nothing is fixed until we make it final and nothing is predestined until we make it our destiny.
Dr. Whitton's research on what takes place between lives also shows that there are karmic "tests" built into our lives. Whether or not we pass these tests determines how quickly we move forward in this life. He gives the dramatic example of this of a young man named Steve, who disliked his father. When his father was ill in a Miami nursing home, Steve almost never visited the old gentleman. One day he had a strong feeling that he needed to visit his father. While he was there, he noticed that the hose on his father's respirator had become disconnected and he was therefore having the greatest difficulty breathing. Steve had a choice-either let his father die, or run to a nurse. He thought about this for a moment and then called the nurse who reconnected the hose.
Later, when he was twenty-nine years old, Steve was hit from the side by a truck during a bike ride. The accident could have been fatal, but he fortunately got away with only a broken femur. When Steve was past forty, he learned under hypnosis that there was a strong connection between these two events and that he had known it before he was born. 'My karmic scenario clearly indicated that the life-or-death incident with my father was, very definitely, an important test I had set for myself,' he said. 'If I could forgive him for the harm he had done to me, which turned out to extend over several lifetimes, then I would not be killed in that cycling accident.
Even more interestingly, Steve said, it was to be expected that he would probably have his father die, based on his past behavior. Because he passed his test instead, his original life plan had come to an end and "outlines of plans for future lives were brought out to take effect in the present life. His choices determined his destiny and not the other way around.
Karma is not fate
Karma is of great significance,
but of greater importance is the choice
Karma is only the condition of choice.
- EL MORYA
Source; book: Karma and Reincarnation -Elizebeth Clare Prophet and Patricia R. SpaDaro | pages 91 and 92. The book available from: https://amethistpers.nl
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