Im not a hippy or anything but ive allways believed in Karma. Until recently that is. last week me and my girlfriend saved a kitten being kept in a cage in a shop. Its life was shit. it was to young to be away from its mother and had fuck all to eat or drink. Regardless of the concequenses we took her home to our flat to re home her. immediatley she lattched on to us and she was right at home eating fish and chicken. Yesterday we took her for a check up at the RSPCA and we had to put her down. wheres the justice?
that has nothing to do with proving or disproving the reality of karma. karma supposedly works over the course of multiple lifetimes, not a few weeks or months. doing something good today doesnt mean something good will happen to you next week. also, among the belief systems which promote the idea of karma, transmigration of the soul (reincarnation) not only takes place within humanity, but can cross taxonomical boundaries...i.e. a person with "good" karma will live the next life as a higher life form, the person with "bad" karma as a lower life form. therefore if karma exists, the cat's situation is due more to the cat's personal karma than yours. you would have had little to nothing to do with it, if it were the result of karma being a working force in reality. rather you would have accrued good karma by saving the cat, but the cats bad karma caused it a short and unhappy life. either way, if you did gain positive karma by saving a cat, you still have to weigh it against all your other actions in this life as well as residual karmic influence from past lives. karma is a lot more complicated than "i did something -i- think is good, so i deserve to be happy right now" the forces of karma, if existant, are only fully understood at a cosmic level, and a mere mortal human is unlikely to be able to comprehend it in full...only a perfected being, and enlightened person could hope to understand it. its not exactly "what goes around comes around," and what you think of as good or meritous may prove to be the opposite in the view of the cosmos, if karma indeed is real.
nesta is right. anyway, I can see you obviously cared for the cat, but be realistic: animals are abused and killed every day. that's pretty much what the meat industry is. besides, crack exists, aids exists, and children are raped. I don't believe or disbelieve in karma, but the world being a seemingly unfair place shouldn't disprove it.
