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Karma credit cards and karma limits.

I stood outside the gate, looking at the burst water pipe discharging water in a stream on the road. My neighbour said “It is all our karma! There is so much water in front of us yet there is not a drop in the house. I must have denied water to someone at some time.” As I walked back indoors, I tried to reason out the idea that karma is a sort of ‘Newtonian Karma’ (physicists please excuse this phrase). In other words some action done in some unknown past comes back exactly in the same way to torment you in the present. The karmic calculations are really difficult and it leaves us victims with no choice in the matter. In my reading of many scriptures I didn’t exactly come across this notion of action and reaction.
What then is Karma? I understand Karma like a credit card account. Each one of who gets a customised Karma credit card. Part of the card customisation is also the body you have. When your credit card is cancelled you die, reapply, and change your card. Your credits are transferred to the new card in your next life. You can upgrade or downgrade your card by your actions.
Everyone comes with a credit limit or karma limit on their Karma card. Just like the credit card, it is a very personal thing. Just as in case of a credit card outward appearances cannot reveal your credit status so judgments about bad karma and retribution cannot be made. Naive judgments about others deserving certain karma are senseless. The principle of karma can be instead used to look at the interplay between what we want and what we have. It informs the idea of contentment in our everyday life.
When your desire exceeds what your KC limit allows, you suffer as you will not get what you want. This is “bad karma”. If you desire things within your limit then it is possible to have great pleasure. Popularly this would be “good karma”. If you do not use your card at all you may said to be liberated. You can run bad debts (be unethical), pay high interest rates (pain) or some times by dramatic events change your card.
The final thought I had was of offers that perhaps have been included in the Karma credit card. Sharing love is a definitely a cash back offer and letting others use your card reduces interest rates. We also have add-on cards with the close people in our life and finally perhaps the divine can increase the credit limit at her discretion.