Neale Donald Walsch argues karma isn't a punishment system but a cycle of lifetimes that expand your awareness and expression of who you really are. He says divinity is love and the process is joyful, never finished.
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This is from Simona Tonsheva Bateba. This is an interesting question. And I picked this question specifically because, Simona, when I read Conversations with God, book one, I grew up in a Hindu family, right? So I believed in karma. And Neil's response to this was really surprising and eye opening for me. So Simona asks, is there anything like a karma? Do we pay our mistakes in previous lives in this one? Or is this only what people believe to make themselves feel calm?
To make themselves feel calm? Yeah. Yes. No, there's no such thing as karma. Conversations with God made it very clear to me. Karma is a figment of the imagination of a particular culture, as purgatory is a figment of the imagination of another culture. And there are many of these ideas that are out there. But conversations with God made it very clear to me. We're not here to somehow pay back some debt or to pay off or to somehow renew, you know, our experience of ourselves or to. Or to. Or to somehow punish ourselves for what we did wrong in a previous lifetime or any of that, or to cleanse our soul. None of those things are true if conversation with God is to be believed and to be experienced. So, no, there's no such thing as karma. There is a cosmic circle. There is a cycle, what the conversations with God calls a cosmic cycle that allows us to move through the life experience from lifetime to lifetime in such a way that each lifetime moves us forward on the cycle of life and expands our awareness, our expression, our understanding, and our experience of our true identity. Let me tell you, this is work that never is complete. That's the joy of it, by the way. That's not the burden of it. That's the joy of it. The joy of the process of evolving into grander and grander expressions of divinity is that, in a sense, if I could put it this way, the job is never done because God is so huge. God is so big, the definition of divinity is so enormous and everlastingly continuous that even if you were to get there in the moment you arrived at the full expression of it, the. The expression itself would expand. People sometimes say, I don't understand what you're saying. How can that be? And then I try to give them a human example. Have you ever loved somebody? If your answer is, yes, I have loved somebody. Have you ever loved somebody more the next day than you did the last day? And most people can say, yes, I've had that experience as well. When you love somebody completely, fully and absolutely, you will find that your love grows and grows and grows and is limitless in its ability to expand. That is, there's no end to how much you can love someone. The more you love, the more you love. The more you love and the more you can love. It's the same way in the expression of divinity. Because by the way, the words divinity and love are synonymous. We're talking about the exact same energy. So karma does not exist. We're not here to somehow pay back some mistake we made in the past. That's not what life is about. We are here to express and to experience our true identity. And karma is not the way to do it. The way to do it is to understand how it has come to pass that we maybe did those things. We may have a memory of a past life or even of our experiences in this particular lifetime when we were younger and didn't really totally understand. But now we move forward into an ever expanding expression of our true identity. And as I said, the process is never complete, nor would we want it to ever be complete. Any more than you want to stop loving someone who you truly love.
