When we have a karmic debt there is always a karmic instrument, which is what the karma uses to teach us, correct us and extract payment from us to bring us back to balance.
Karmic instruments are usually other people. But not always...
Karmic instruments usually don't know or accept that they are acting as a karmic instrument. They usually think they are doing the right thing or a good. A karmic instrument is usually asleep to what they are doing...
Anyone who reprimands you, corrects you harshly, pulls you up on things, makes your life difficult in some way, sends you long criticizing messages, talks negatively to others about you, treats you will ill-will, is a karmic instrument. They do not have to be in our immediate family they can be outside of our family in our circle of friends or work colleagues.
Of course if someone is a karmic instrument for us, we are also one for them. According to who has the greater debt, there will always be a tendency to one person being more of a karmic instrument.
The karmic instrument has a role, and if we learn the lesson behind the karma and pay with the value that was initially lost, we can often turn the karmic instrument into a dharmic instrument.
The role of the karmic instrument in the beginning is to make us suffer. As we suffer we look for a remedy. In the process of looking for a remedy, the karmic instrument begins to change, becoming a mirror to show us the defects that caused the karmic debt, and which are also at centre of the present karmic circumstances.
So often if we are not learning the lesson, the karmic instrument can be ruthless in bringing us back to our learning. Even though this can be harsh, it is helpful, and it shows us that we really are in a learning programme, and that we really must learn.
One curious observation worth a mention is that there is often a very sensitive psychic connection between us and the karmic instrument. This psychic connection makes us uneasy, anxious, scared, uncomfortable and often very emotionally sensitive.
Another interesting observation is that the karmic instrument does their role in waves of varying intensity, which is always the way karma acts upon us. That is, via waves of activity and repose, relief and oppression.
It is often the case that the karmic instrument is just like us. In that they manifest exactly the same defects in the same or similar directions.
The more we see ourselves as a cause of the karmic circumstances with debts to pay, the more we work on ourselves and the more we begin to give the key value that pays the debts.
As we pay, the role of the karmic instrument ceases, and it is very possible that the nature of the relationship with the karmic instrument, changes all together - for the better.
In some cases, it can change so much, to be converted into a relationship that creates merit or dharma for both and all around.
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Nice one
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