What Is Karma and How Does It Work? The Main Law of the Universe That Governs Us

Main subjects

KarmaAMAlexander MineevAVAlexander VolchekKarma, free will, and causalityThe UniverseSpiritual development and the spiritual path

Main threads of the conversation

• 00:00How do people understand the law of karma?
• 06:15Knowledge and belief: what's the difference?
• 08:39Why do people act materially while believing in the spiritual?
• 12:05What is karma? How does birth shape your karma?
• 16:00How is karma formed?
• 17:35Is there a direct link between actions and results?
• 21:20How do you distinguish good and evil in karma?
• 24:28How can you learn to see the truth?
• 27:20A person is only a cog in the universe
• 30:25Are you ready to know the whole truth about reality?
• 32:07The main task in human life
• 34:15Is every person a spiritual being?
• 35:29How people made the world material
• 39:45How do you study the laws of the universe?
• 48:10A country's karma: how it affects a person
• 50:59Does a short life have karmic meaning?

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• 02:57

  This is crucial. Without that foundation, we'll be speaking from opposite poles.

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• 04:18

  Most people on Earth today—in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries—perceive the world as material. A person lives in a material world, and the spiritual world is part of it.

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• 09:42

  Tell them the Dalai Lama performs this ritual every day, saints performed it fifteen thousand years ago, and the monastery is seven thousand years old—the more details you pile on, the sooner even the staunchest materialist will stand in the front row, spend time there, and film a ree—

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• 12:56

  Broadly speaking, karma equals life: in terms of the movement of energy, elements, and planets, that's what the concept means.

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• 29:02

  ‘And how does it work?’ But if you truly understand that karma exists, that there are laws of the universe, incarnations, and a certain span for your incarnation…

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• 33:13

  But the one possibility is to learn to hear what's real yourself, to develop to the point where you leave behind the idea that the world is material and contains something spiritual.

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• 34:43

  But however much someone thinks they live in a material world that contains a spiritual component, and however many constructs they invent within it, that doesn't change the fact that they're a spiritual being.

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• 53:55

  It's important to understand that if you were born in a particular place, it's because you were supposed to be born there and live that particular life.

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• 54:19

  When someone asks why things are this way, why they can't just get answers, and why karma is needed, they're speaking from the ego.

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• 59:52

  This is important, and I mentioned it today or in earlier material: people don't realize how an action or cause will connect with an effect, either in timing or in the particular result.

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