| From The River Of Heaven |
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| Books By David Frawley |
| KARMA AND THE SCIENCE OF REBIRTH | |
| The real law is
that whatever is not good for our soul cannot be good for the souls of others
either. To cater to the ego needs of others is not good for us and harms them as
well. True good, therefore, cannot be measured by how much people like us, how much
money we have given to charity, by how good the world thinks we are. According to the
Vedas the highest good is to be ourselves, to rest in our true Self or inner nature apart
from all external influences and motivations. This allows for the flow of Divine grace
into the world wherein we go beyond all the superficial appearances of good and evil.
Great beings bless the world by their mere existence and need not do any other action to
uplift humanity. What is necessary, therefore, is not that we do good karma but that we are true to ourselves, to our deepest Self. Both good and bad karma bind the soul, just as a golden chain can bind a man as much as an iron one. It is usually easier to go from good karma to beyond karma but many instances of great yogis have occurred wherein their early part of life involved bad karma, even the working of black magic or criminal deeds. No one should be judged.
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