What is the relationship between karma and death?
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"Death is not an accident; it is the culmination of your own karmic journey, revealing the intricate dance of cause and effect that shapes your existence."
According to Osho, in the manifest world nothing is accidental: death, too, is the ripening of one’s own karmic chain. Even being killed by Krishna is not Krishna’s intention; from his side it is utterly causeless, from ours it issues from past causes. Thus who we meet, love, fight—and when we die—unfolds from our total being.
Your death comes when your own past actions ripen; enlightened beings don’t cause it—they simply are, while your karma brings the event.
Why this matters practically
- Shifts blame from God/others to personal responsibility for choices.
- Encourages conscious living now to transform future outcomes.
- Reduces resentment by seeing events as mirrors of one’s own karma.
- Encourages conscious living now to transform future outcomes.
- Reduces resentment by seeing events as mirrors of one’s own karma.
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