So what is Karma? Nobody, in our opinion, puts it as clearly, as
Florence Scovel Shinn does, in the opening lines of The Game of
Life:
Most people consider life a battle, but it is not a battle, it
is a game.
It is a game, however, which cannot be played successfully without
the knowledge of spiritual law, and the Old and the New Testaments
give the rules of the game with wonderful clearness. Jesus Christ
taught that it was a great game of Giving and Receiving.
"Whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap."
This means that whatever man sends out in word or deed, will return
to him; what he gives, he will receive.
If he gives hate, he will receive hate; if he gives love, he
will receive love; if he gives criticism, he will receive criticism;
if he lies, he will be lied to; if he cheats he will be cheated.
We are taught also that the imaging faculty plays a leading part
in the game of life.
"Keep thy heart (or imagination) with all diligence, for
out of it are the issues of life." (Prov. 4:23)
This means that what man images, sooner or later externalizes
in his affairs. I know of a man who feared a certain disease.
It was a very rare disease and difficult to get, but he pictured
it continually and read about it until it manifested in his body,
and he died, the victim of distorted imagination.
So we see, to play successfully the Game of Life, we must train
the imaging faculty. A person with an imaging faculty trained
to image only good, brings into his life "every righteous
desire of his heart" -health, wealth, love, friends, perfect
self expression, his highest ideals.
The imagination has been called, "The Scissors of the Mind,"
and it is ever cutting, cutting, day by day, the pictures man
sees there, and sooner or later, he meets his own creations in
his outer world. To train the imagination successfully, man must
understand the workings of his mind. The Greeks said; "Know
Thyself."
From The Game of Life, by Florence Scovel Shinn
The section on forgiveness has another text by Florence Scovel
Shinn that deals with the topic of Kharma. It is called "The
Law of Karma & the Law of Forgiveness."
This section still needs additional texts. Currently, the following
texts are available:
