Instant karmas gonna get you
Gonna look you right in the face
Better get yourself together darlin
Join the human race
How in the world you gonna see
Laughin at fools like me
Who in the hell do you think you are
A super star
Well, right you are
John Lennon, "Instant Karma"
Karma is one of the Eastern World's mystic concepts that is most known in the Western World. Karma is defined by Wikipedia as the concept of "action" or "deed" in Indian religions understood as that which causes the entire cycle of cause and effect (i.e., the cycle called samsāra) originating in ancient India and treated in Hindu, Jain, Sikh and Buddhist philosophies. Sir Issac Newton demonstrated the concept through his Third Law of Motion which states "For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction". It has been encorporated into American idiom through the saying "What goes around comes around". Saint Paul spoke of it to the Galatians: "whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap". Boy George sang of it in "Karma Chameleon", David Bowie in "Karma Man", Alicia Keys in "Karma".
If anyone looked at the AP Newswire Service from October 4, 2008 they would find a fine example of "Karma in Action" through the following:
Thirteen years to the day after being acquitted of killing his wife and her friend in Los Angeles, O.J. Simpson was found guilty of robbing two sports-memorabilia dealers at gunpoint in a Las Vegas hotel room.
The 61-year-old former football star was convicted of all 12 counts late Friday after jurors deliberated for more than 13 hours. He released a heavy sigh as the charges were read and was immediately taken into custody.
Simpson, who went from American sports idol to celebrity-in-exile after his murder acquittal, could spend the rest of his life in prison.
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