Tom Chavez
Very sorry to hear about Bill’s suffering. He enjoyed being a popular leader of our class but, like all of us, he was also forced to endure suffering and sorrow. The bell tolls for everyone.
This is a world of perfect laws of cause and effect. By our pious karma we enjoy, and by our selfish karma we suffer. Human intelligence is meant to understand that everything happens for a reason.
All karma, good or bad, is actually bad because it entails birth in a world of disease, old age and death. The most wealthy, intelligent, famous, and powerful persons all suffer, just like us.
Therefore sages advise, don’t create karma either good or bad, and avoid coming back to this material world.
How to live karma free?
It depends upon intention or consciousness. We can act and aspire for selfish purposes, to please ourselves, or we can act and aspire to please our Creator.
The perfection of spiritual life is to dedicate family, vocation, and life itself to satisfy the Lord, to use everything in service to the Supreme.
If we are conscious that everything belongs to God, and everything should be used for the Lord’s pleasure, we are free of selfish desire to enjoy this world.
Then the chain of karmic reaction terminates. We no longer aspire for worldly fame, wealth, power or pleasure, and we are no longer forced by karma to accept a material body.
That is liberation from the cycle of birth and death.
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