It's like 'insha allah' or god willing - leaving it to a higher power. Perhaps it's just a way to find meaning when there doesn't seem to be - saying there's a force at work that is making everything happen the way it's meant to sometimes helps us cope with situtations outside of our control.
Karma is often misunderstood as immediate cosmic justice - good gets good, bad gets bad. But traditionally, it's more about every action thought and intention creating an imprint that shapes our experiences, now and across lifetimes. It's more about being mindful of our actions so that we take responsiblity for them rather than some kind of retributive justice or external punishment.
And if we're not taking responsiblity, or don't appear to be in this lifetime, then yes, I think you're right - we are meant to be the karma in these circumstances, bring people to justice and account because they don't seem capable of it themselves.
But if justice isn't coming, and if we can't do anything about it even though we try, then yeah, we have to let go for the sake of our own mental health and those around us, and we have to find a way to forge a new path with new intentions. Perhaps the karma is replaying on us and that's why we are getting what we get? I mean if you believe in karma, it has to be over lifetimes, right, so maybe it is our karma after all. But there's good lessons in there for us, surely.
No wonder people do things because they know that the weak ones won't have the power to bring them to justice.
Perhaps it's just best to avoid situations where we will have to scream Karma when it most likely will not happen in this life.
I actually wish that people fear Karma enough to make them avoid bad acts towards other people so that people will not have to struggle mentally to be back on track.
I think we're more and more moving away from those systems of spirituality and religion in favour of the gods of Tik Tok where morality is secondary to fame.
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