How Do We Earn Positive Karma? Question: It looks as though it is very easy to get negative karma but difficult to gain karmic credits. How do we go about earning positive karma? Answer: Religious service organizations are an area where people can give their efforts without being directly involved in other people’s lives. People who have given themselves to a life of service are in the best position to gain positive karma. By providing schools, hospitals, etc., we provide tools by which people can advance themselves although we give them to an unspecified, nameless group called Mankind. This is what is meant by the term, “God’s work”. Unfortunately, most of us spend a lot of time accruing karmic debits before we begin to return full effort for what we receive. Many of us haven’t even tithed for most of our lives, and many are in a position to gain something they haven’t really earned. Some people take advantage of employers by taking extra sick time when they are not ill and many try to justify poor performance by claiming that the work is too difficult for them or that they are underpaid. These attitudes constantly put one further into debt. Nobody can hope to get ahead and retain what they have acquired until such time as they have a positive account in their ‘karmic bank”. Though one may manage to gain large sums of money through underhanded means, the money will be lost unless one has sufficient karmic credit to support such a gain. In order to have financial security in one’s life, one must have more assets than liabilities in one’s karmic account. And until we compensate for the deficits, we cannot keep what we attain. When we begin to give more than we receive, then we begin to progress materially. We can build a positive karmic account so that we have security in the future by tithing for what God has given us and by providing excess service for which we do not expect compensation. But if a person wishes to compensate for favors we have done him, we should not prevent him doing so. (08-1971)
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