Karma, Samskara, and the Loop of Cause and Effect
April 12, 2020 7 minutes • 1399 words
Table of contents
Principles (click to expand)
| Principles | Assertions |
|---|---|
| Each Idea is Unique | Ideas and Movement Lead to a Loop of Cause and Effect |
Chapter 3 explained that all motion in the universe is sourced from the the Law of Conservation of Idea. This law mandates the persistence and uniqueness of each identity.
- This uniqueness manifests as its dharma or gravitational signature.
- This persistence lets it last ‘forever’ in Existence, technically since its identity lives in the Aethereal Layer which is above the Spacetime Layer. This will be explained in Chapter 8.
The dynamics of this movement or change is explained by our Elastic Theory in Chapter 5.
- In Material Superphysics, this is applied on physical movement
- In Medical and Social Superphysics, this is applied to:
- The evolution of a person from health to disease, happiness to sadness
- The metaphysical movement of a society from peace to war, or from prosperity to poverty
This evolution is divided into the perceptions of cause and effect, just as movement is divided into starting location and ending location.
‘Action and reaction’ is a simpler way to view cause and effect. The interaction between ideas and the dharma of those ideas create a reaction which arises when ideas are brought near, made to interact, or are added or introduced to each other.
This reaction manifests as:
- ‘movement’ from the perspective of space
- ‘change’ or ’evolution’ from the perspective of time
There is always some reaction in the universe because Existence is ‘filled’ with ideas from the Supreme. This is known to the ancients as the universe not having any void.
Cause and Effect
Chapter 3 explained how the action of bringing ideas near, introducing, or adding to others leads to reaction.
- The former is called “cause”.
- The latter is called “effect”.
The Sanskrit word karma implies a complete loop from cause and effect.
Existence is thus made up of unending loops of cause and effect, as idea and experience:
- An idea leads to action
- An action leads to an experience
- An experience leads to an idea
The difference between Physics and Superphysics is that the latter has the Sanskrit concept of samskara which has has its own properties and dynamics.
Science is aware of physical action and physical reaction. However, there are often many cases wherein such action and reaction are made up of a long chain of intervening-actions and intervening-reactions that might escape the immediate observation of the mind.
For example, the floodings from global warming is made up of a long chain of cause and effect*:
- The burning of fossil fuels adds carbon dioxide in the air – This is the action
- The carbon dioxide traps the heat from the sun - This is an intermediate reaction which also becomes an action
- The trapped heat causes warmer temperatures
- The warmer temperatures cause more evaporation of ocean water
- The increased evaporation causes more water in the air
- The increased water in the air falls down as severe floods – This is the final reaction
This is an example of a Table by Francis Bacon
This chain has 6 points, connected by 5 ‘jumps’ or chain-links of logic.
- We call the burning of fossil fuels as karma or action, that leads to severe floods, as karma or reaction.
- We call the formation of carbon dioxide and water in the air as samskara or pending reaction to the final effect of flooding.
Treating humans as individuals, we can say that:
- samskara exists in the metaphysical domain since the intervening actions-reactions are outside of the scope of our perception
- karma exists in the physical domain since our actions and resulting experiences are physical
The knowledge of the principles of samskara will allow people to:
- lessen the coming ‘bad’ karma, usually manifesting as ‘bad luck’, by reducing or ‘burning’ the bad samskara
- increase the coming ‘good’ karma (‘good luck’), by accumulating the good samskara
Luck vs Karma
According to Eastern Philosoophy, there is no such thing as good or bad luck. Instead, everything is based on karma or action and reaction.
- If you plant good deeds, then you get good rewards and a good feeling from such rewards.
- If you plant bad or selfish deeds, then you get bad consequences and a bad feeling from such consequences.
The problem is that such reactions do not happen in a fixed nor predictable time period. A good action today might create a reaction that will be experienced 10 days from now, 10 years from now, or 10 lifetimes from now (since Asian philosophy believes in reincarnation).
So if you plant a good action now and experience the good effects 10 lifetimes from now, then your future self will regard it as good luck. This is because your future self will have no memory of the good deed you performed 10 lifetimes ago.
Likewise, the ‘bad luck’ that we experience today could come from our bad actions 10 days ago, 10 years ago, or 10 lifetimes ago.
This is why Asian philosophies have certain policy suggestions:
- Do good deeds as much as you can and avoid doing bad.
According to Hindus and Buddhists, this is to deposit good karma into your existential bank account so you have a lot of good karma to withdraw in the future.
However, according to Superphysics, this is not 100% technically correct. Instead, the act of consistently doing good deeds makes the ‘wave’ of your soul attain a certain shape. This shape then will let it fit in its proper reality, just as a classical violin fits into an orchestra and not in a death-metal band or a gangsta rap group.
Doing good deeds as much as you can therefore continually hammers your soul into a good shape that it can retain more easily.
- Learn the techniques to burn karma faster, whether good or bad.
This is akin to making your karmic bank account more liquid. In this way, bad karma doesn’t occur in one go, which might overwhelm your mind. Likewise, good karma doesn’t all fall on you in one package, as this might bloat your ego. Instead, karma is taken in manageable pieces, just like a loan that gets easy payment terms.
This is done by going out of your natural way, and artificially doing the corrective action. For example, you and your friend have had a disagreement which destroyed your friendship. Normally, you are fine not talking to your ex-friend. This is your natural state.
But this policy 1 and 2 says that you should go to your friend and apologize so that both of your waves can be fixed and harmonized. This is really hard to do because of human ego, which is from the Negative Force.
The knowledge of the principles of samskara can also allow a prediction of when such reactions are likely to occur so that they can be avoided or prevented.
- This is how scientists predict sea-level rise and the increase of natural disasters from the increase use of fossil fuels
- This is how we were able to predict the global stagflation of 2022 from the quantitative easing done from 2009.
This is also why Superphysics is against liberalism, libertarianism, or any belief that advocates the freedom to do anything or say anything that you want, even if it is within the law. This is because:
- humans have a natural limited cognition of samskara
- the law itself is made by humans who have limited cognition of samskara
These limitations prevent the ‘actioner’ from knowing the results of his action.
For example, the United States allows people to say whatever they want even if it is hurtful to others.
- This leads to a samskara of negative feelings within the population
- The negative feelings accumulate in the hearts and minds of the people
- This explodes into the karma of hate and violence that manifests as mass shootings, race riots, local terrorism, etc.
And so the best policy to end mass shootings is to restrain people from saying whatever they want. East Asians have such control and so mass shootings are rare in Japan, Korea, and China.
The next post will explain how we notate the chain of cause and effect, as Qualimath.
