shall he reap". Despite this idea, Christian society still refuses to attempt a true understanding of the spiritual and mystical forces in the soul and in nature.
             As I stated before, Western and Eastern ideals are two different interpretations of Karma but there are also two levels of Karma. The subjective level of karma suggests formation of one's own inner character, the objective level determines the "external circumstances of birth and general trends of life events" The most common approaches are to the idea of reincarnation. For example, the act of swatting. a fly could be perceived as killing a person, perhaps your mother in a past life. In the west, no serious research is done on the subject of reincarnation. If in fact Christians do show substantial interest in reincarnation, it is only with a skeptical curiosity of knowing who they were in previous lives. Eastern people, however, are not really curious to find out what they were in the past life.
             Karma is a small connection between Hinduism and Christianity, but significant dissimilarities are also seen between the two. The influence of Christianity in the Western Hemisphere has left Christians with the belief that God chooses to punish or reward one's own actions in life and perhaps in heaven or hell. For example, "Christianity which holds the soul, works out its rewards or punishments in a single lifetime", as opposed to eastern ideas which state that their status in this life is a consequence of their actions in a previous lifetime. As you can see, both ideals hold extreme view points.
             Western ideas of Karma also bare no existence to reincarnation, and eastern ideas are devoted to the existence of reincarnation. Most Christians refuse to believe in the "transmigration of souls". Believing that a person could be a human being in one life and an animal in the succeeding life, is a basic idea of rein...