Double entry

The universe is a perfect accountant. It uses the double-entry accounting system for handling cause and effect. So, rejoice when the next time you feel that someone has done you an injustice, or someone caused you harm or made you a subject of their anger or jealous actions. The universe has perfectly recorded that event. Your karmic ledger received a credit entry as you paid through your suffering, and the other person's karmic ledger received a simultaneous debit entry for an equal and opposite amount.

Similarly, when you did a good, selfless deed for someone, either through charity or by extending help, your karmic ledger received a credit entry.

What should matter to you most is the status of your ledger. You have no control over anyone else's ledger. Acts of revenge on someone, for instance, will create a debit in your karmic ledger and a credit in the other person's karmic ledger, regardless of whether the other person had it coming, and, therefore, the act of revenge will have the exact opposite outcome than what you had intended it to be. So, what happens when your karmic ledger shows a heavy debit balance, bad karm?


Unlike in our commercial lives, there is no process of escaping that debt through insolvency proceedings. You carry that bad karm balance forward forever, through multiple lives, till you pay it off through the conduct of good karm. This cycle of imbalance and rebalance continues, until, at some point, you consciously decide to step away from karmic actions that create these imbalances.