Why Science Proves the ‘Law of Karma’ Exists

“Look deep into nature, and [then] you’ll understand everything better” — Einstein

I. Karma is Real

“Why doesn’t he love me?” she blurted while tearfully crying on my shoulder.

I exhaled slowly. “You really wanna know?”

She tearfully nodded.

“Well…” I said, “if you listen closely, you’ll hear Karma whisper this:

‘The reason you fell in love with a guy who doesn’t love you today is to make up for when you didn’t love a guy who did … yesterday.’ ”

Bingo!

Aside from love, perhaps no word is more misunderstood than karma. Perhaps this explains why most people don’t believe karma exists. At least, not seriously exist.

But I’m not one of those people! And science either.

Experience, that hard teacher known for giving tests before study guides, demands her students learn the law of karma. If not, the pupil is forced to repeat the course.

Over. And over. And over again!

“I can’t teach anybody anything,” Socrates confessed; “I can only make them think.”

In short, because each problem is merely a teacher from the University of Life, perhaps the most important lesson to be learned from the School of Hard Knocks is this:

“Karma is real”

— Taylor Swift

II. The Socratic Method → The Scientific Method

“The beginning of wisdom is the definition of words.”

— Socrates

Scientists use Socrates’ famed method to study the world.

As for the scientific method, it merely defines Nature’s observable patterns. Once clarified, such observed regularities are packaged as “laws of nature.”

No wonder Einstein complained science never extends beyond accounting for how facts interrelate. How this cause births that effect, which in turn serves as a new cause for a new effect…

Aha! This explains why science does nothing but describe relationships between causes and effects. The same causes always produce the same effects. That’s science in a nutshell.

Long before the West coined the “law of causality,” in the Far East they preferred the simpler Sanskrit word, karman (‘action, effect, fate’.)

Bingo!

Perhaps those meditative yogis while knee-deep in Samadhi figured out the very same thing Socrates did. After all, it was Socrates who called all sin “partial vision” … a sort of blindness that disables the seer from seeing the actual target.

Indeed,

Just as the blind man isn’t punished for blindness but by it, we aren’t punished for our “sins” but by them too.

Unfortunately for mortals, ignorance of the law is inexcusable.

So it matters not if the “law” is called karma or causality or gravity. In Nature’s eyes — it’s all the same.

Nature’s laws never discriminate…

…If Mother Teresa and Hitler both jump from the Empire State Building, they both must meet the same fate. Notice what’s being suggested here, regarding this dynamic karman triad called “action, effect and fate.”

Whether called gravity or electromagnetism or karma, every scientific law ultimately rests on the same basis:

“Everything connects to everything else.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

III. Science = Common Sense to an Uncommon Degree

“Science,” said Einstein, “is nothing but the refinement of everyday thinking.”

Armed with this mindset, ol’ Einstein’s mind was set to showing why the energy of the universe, which “can’t be created or destroyed [but] can only be changed from one form to another,” must ultimately return back to itself…

…Although in a new form.

Bingo!

When history’s most famous equation is unmasked, e (energy) = mc2 (physical world) reveals nothing but karman restated in a new form.

In short, when Einstein’s equation is applied to human affairs, it merely reveals why this must be the case:

The energy you put out is the energy you receive.

Always.

To ignore the law of karma results in behaving ignorantly. This explains why Socrates called “ignorance the only evil.”

Only an ignoramus would intentionally slap his own face! To do so, after all, is to ignore the inescapable pain caused by one’s own actions … caused by one’s own karma.

Everything is essentially one and the same. And so, to slap another is to ultimately slap one’s self.

Whoever grasps this insight has seen the law of karma — up close and personal. It’s common sense, actually. And as my mother loves to remind me: “Son, common sense will take you further than any other trait.”

Indeed, Einstein suspected having common sense to an uncommon degree is the birthmark of “religious geniuses of all ages [who] have been distinguished by this kind of religious feeling.”

Notice the following theme…

• Instead of calling it karma, Jesus of Nazareth taught his disciples to be careful because “you reap what you sow.”
• Instead of calling it karma, Buddha taught his disciples “if you truly loved yourself, you could never hurt anyone.”
• Instead of calling it karma, Confucius taught his disciples to “treat others how you want to be treated.”

In short, at the heart of every religion, this “what goes around, comes around” principle merely echoes the circle of life.

The Ouroborus.

“Science reveals all life on Earth is one,” Neil deGrasse Tyson says.

As for number one, to truly grasp what it means results in firmly grasping why The Golden Rule is every bit as much common sense as is the law of electromagnetism or any other unifying theory.

In short, show me a “genius” — and I’ll show you someone whose theory reflects the law of oneness and resultant karman.

Perhaps history’s greatest scientist put it best:

“For every action, there’s an equal and opposite reaction”

— Isaac Newton

Bingo!

IV. Karma = Life is but a Mirror

Chew on this…

Mike Tyson was born under the Cancer sign.

He grew up in New York City. Tyson struck it rich and splurged on a ridiculously huge 52-room mansion. Eventually, Tyson went bankrupt.

50 Cent was born under the Cancer sign.

He grew up in New York City. 50 Cent struck it rich and splurged on Tyson’s ridiculously huge 52-room mansion. He even joked, “I’mma be smarter than the guy [Tyson] who lived here before me and went broke.”

Eventually, 50 Cent went bankrupt.

Tyson’s best friend shot 50 Cent. But as 50 Cent later reminded, “Thankfully I survived, coz two weeks later the guy who shot me got shot down.”

In short,

Karma = Life is but a mirror…

Take another woman’s husband and another woman will eventually take yours. “You’ll lose him how you got him,” goes the expression.

Karma = Life is but a mirror…

What more can the human mind do than reflect, after all?

Aha! Perhaps this explains why life is the mirror that always reflects back to the thinker what he thinks … always reflects back to the doer what he does.

If you’ve ever seen a boomerang, you’ve seen how life’s karman works.

V. Her Name is Miss Karma

I recall being on a road trip back in college, as part of the basketball team. On our way back to campus, we stopped at a corner store.

One of my teammates — nicknamed “Sticky Fingers” — had a reputation for petty theft. For most of the semester, I warned him about the law of karma.

Ahh, but Sticky was one of those guys who refused to believe a cobra kills without first having to lose his life.

Sure enough, out of the corner of my eye, I glimpsed him sliding a pack of cookies into his sweatpants. I shook my head but minded my business. The next day, he approached me in the cafeteria.

“Bro,” he said, “you know that pack of cookies I stole yesterday morning…” He sighed. “Later that night, I locked my keys in my car and wound up having to pay a locksmith $60!”

He shook his head and then said this:

“Can you believe that damn pack of cookies cost me 60 bucks?”

“Dear brother…” I whispered back, “her name is Miss Karma.”

VI. The Takeaway

“To understand the Universe, you must understand the language in which it’s written: the language of Mathematics.”

—Galileo

The above insight led to Galileo being crowned the Father of Modern Science.” And for good reason.

After all, what more can the human mind reflect on aside from how — the One reflects back to itself via the Many?

Mathematics, then, ultimately accounts for how one thing repeats itself in another form.

Notice a pattern?

No wonder Dr. Lynn Steen called “mathematics the science of patterns.” As for every such pattern, it merely reveals why the logician Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) revealed the secret of mathematics in another form:

The White Queen asked Alice, “Can you do addition?’”

And then the Queen added, “What’s one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one?’ ”

Show me number 2 and I’ll show you how number 1 repeats itself as one.

My point?

If everyone lives one life and shares one love in one world, how could anyone not expect one’s own actions to not return to the sender?

The past returns to itself in the present. The present revisits itself in the future. The future regathers itself in the past. The past returns…

…The Ouroboros can’t be escaped! ‘Think you’re escaping and run into yourself,” Joyce warned. For life is but a boomerang.

If you want love, give love. But if you want hate — give hate. Giving is receiving turned inside-out, after all.

Because Karma is a blind waitress who can’t read the menu, she only serves us what we deserve.

She only serves us what we deserve…

In short, given that mathematics is the language of science, and the only such possible mathematical tongue is spelled patterns and pronounced karman, it’s no wonder Honest Abe soberly said this:

“When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that’s my religion.”

— Abraham Lincoln