BIBLICAL
(Galatians 6:7): Do not be decieved; God is not mocked. For
whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.
(Matthew 26:52):
All who take up the sword, will perish by the sword.
(Hosea
8:7): For they sow the wind, and shall
reap the whirlwind.
(Jeremiah
17:10): I, the Lord, search the mind and try the heart,
to give to every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.
(Proverbs): Whoso
diggeth a pit shall fall therein.
BUDDHIST
For every event that occurs, there will follow another event whose existance was caused
by the first, and this event will be either pleasant or unpleasant, in occordance to the nature of its cause.
(Dhammapada
69,71): Verily, an evil deed committed
does not immediately bear fruit, just as milk does not curdle at once; but like a smoldering fire covered with ashes, it remains
with the fool until the moment it ignites and burns him.
(Garland
Sutra 10): According to what deeds are
done, do their resulting consequeces come to be.
HINDUISM
(Brhad-aranyaka
Upanishad, IV 4.5): Some say that a person
consists of desires. As is his desire, so is his will. As is his will, so is the deed he does. Whatever deed he does,
that he attains.
(Laws
of Manu 4.172): Unrighteousness, practiced
in this world, does not at once produce its fruit; but, like a cow, advancing slowly, it cuts off the roots of him who committed
it.
(Bhagavad Gita):
As the blazing fire reduces wood to ashes, similarly, the fire of Self-Knowledge reduces all Karma to ashes.
ISLAM
(Qur’an
42.30): Whatever affliction may visit
you is for what your own hands have earned.
SIKHISM
(Adi
Granth, Gauri Var): Our body in Kali Yuga
is a field of action: as a man sows, so is his reward. Nothing by empty talk is determined: anyone swallowing poison
must die. Brother! behold the Creator’s justice: As are a man’s actions, so is his recompense.
WICCA
Any energy that you send out will return to you threefold.
AFRICAN
PROVERB
Ashes fly back into the face of he who throws
them.
SANSKRIT
PROVERB
It is the coward and the fool who says ‘this is my fate’.
A Master will say, ‘I have made my fate.'
MODERN
SCIENCE
(Newton's Third
Law of Motion): For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
MODERN
PHILOSOPHY
(Wayne Dyer):
How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
