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Question:<\/strong> According to Buddhism, there are five cosmic orders or processes (niyamas) which operate in the universe as follows:<\/p>\n 1. Utu niyama<\/strong> – Physical inorganic order If the karma of a person is expressed through (karma niyama) in interaction with the other four niyamas, it is as if karma niyama is one with them. Why then, did the Buddha teach it as a ‘separate’ niyama?<\/span><\/p>\n Answer: <\/strong>There are two possible reasons why this is so, as follows:<\/p>\n 1. <\/strong> The other four niyamas can work by themselves in manners such that they do not interact with karma niyama as there is no one’s karma connected. E.g. Bija niyama causes the sprouting of a seed of a small plant in an uninhabited land, which does not affect anyone.<\/p>\n 2.<\/strong> Karma niyama can work with one or all of the other four niyamas in various combinations. E.g. Bija niyama (ripening of a fruit here) interacts with karma niyama (negative karma here) and dharma niyama (gravity here) to cause the fruit to fall on and hurt someone’s head. This is also to say that if there is no one which the fruit falls on, karma niyama was is not in action; only bija niyama and dharma niyama were working together.<\/p>\n Related Articles:<\/strong><\/p>\n Alternative Perspectives on the Relation of Karma and the Tsunamis Question: According to Buddhism, there are five cosmic orders or processes (niyamas) which operate in the universe as follows: 1….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[139],"class_list":["post-7762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mix","tag-karma","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n(E.g. Seasonal phenomena of the elements)
\n2. Bija niyama<\/strong> – Physical organic order
\n(E.g. Order of germs and seeds, similar to genetics)
\n3. Karma niyama<\/strong> – Order of an act and result
\n(E.g. Un\/skilful intentions leading to positive\/negative results)
\n4. Dharma niyama <\/strong>– Order of the norm
\n(E.g. Natural phenomena occurring at last birth of a Bodhisatta, gravity
\nand other similar laws of nature)
\n5. Citta niyama<\/strong> – Order of mind and psychic law<\/p>\n
\nhttp:\/\/moonpointer.com\/mooncentral\/jan05.htm<\/a>
\nAppearance as Reflections of Karma
\nhttps:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2009\/10\/appearances-as-reflections-of-karma<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"