THE BIBLE & REINCARNATION

Reincarnation and karma are ideas that are closely related.The principle of karma is that whatever harm we cause to others, will be caused to us in our next lives.

Hillel, a famous Jewish religious leader of the first century BC, said that the Bible teaches us not do to others what is hateful to us. He thus clearly associated the Bible with the principle of karma.

The Ten Commandments are based on this principle. It is not because God forbids to kill, to commit adultery, to steal, to give false testimony against a neighbor or to long for things that belong to a neighbor, that we should not do so, but because we hate it when others do that to us.

The principle of karma does not take into account what is legally allowed are forbidden – there is a lot of legal theft and a lot of legal killing – but takes into account the bad vibrations that people feel when someone harms them. Those who think that they can get away with bad behavior will learn from ‘suffering’ the consequences.

People who realize that the ‘eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth’ law refers to how one’s karma works no longer look for revenge – they realize that doing so creates a vicious circle of violence leading to more violence – but protect themselves against other people’s violence by studying what circumstances lead to violence and how they can alter those circumstances.