How Is Karma Determined in a Marriage? Q: I think it was a couple of months ago you were talking about karma. You made the comment that there were a lot of ways of getting positive or negative physical karma as an example. What exactly does the woman get from taking care of a sick husband? Does she get positive physical karma? I think you also said that a husband and wife have same karma? Could you clarify how that would work? I don’t understand how they could have the same karma. RK: They really don’t have the same karma, but they share their karma. Each one has their own karma, and they share it in common. If he, for instance, and let’s put it on economic karma, because that’s a little easier to deal with. Let’s say he is $100,000 dollars in the hole, karmically. She is $50,000 for the good; she has that much coming from a prior incarnation’s work. She will never get that $50,000 because it has been cancelled out by his $100,000 bad. But, still she has her personal karma. If they were to separate, she would probably still have $50,000 positive karma to deal with. Q: But, can the wife get positive karma? RK: Well, if she shares in it. For instance, in a situation where there is one wage earner in the family, let’s say it’s the man, again because it is easier. It doesn’t always work that way, but it is easier. Whoever the person who is bringing in the income brings into the household, is shared 50%-50% with the other person. So she, therefore, should spend 50% and the wage earner should spend 50% of it. They can divide it up in such a way that it takes care of all the household things equally, and whatever is left over is theirs to spend as they choose. Of course, they make sure that it’s combined to buy more furniture or a car or something of that sort. Q: What is an example of the husband give money to a ? or something. Would that someday go back to—would the wife have any part of that? RK: Yes. The two of them together, the pair, have shared karma between them. (04-1982)
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