The idea that people are "rewarded" for their suffering with "good karma" is wrong.
What happens when people suffer for reasons they have not immediately caused themselves is that their burden or load of karma is becoming lighter (if they don't acquire new karma by their new actions) as the karma is being expressed or undergone by the mind.
In fact, the karmic load does not only become lighter by suffering or extra suffering through performing service to others or undergoing uninvited suffering, but also by enjoying the pleasant rewards of previous actions.
Because so-called "good karma" only consists of golden chains, i.e. they keep you bound just as well as the iron chains of so-called "nasty karma".
So if you spend a life time of good actions and you have not offered all of those actions to God (or not accepted them as your own), your karmic load has increased tremendously and you need to undergo a long time of reaping the so-called "rewards" of the karma. This may seem as a nice thing but spiritually speaking it is as bad as a life time of suffering painful events.
Thanks for your reply. Just my opinion but I am not an expert so it’s just my vision of how karma operates according to our actions or inactions. Only my personal view so please question it. I’m here to learn.
My understanding is that karma is associated with our conscious actions and deliberate inactions we reap the fruit of them in terms of development of our soul, spirit or inner being.
Whether one belongs to a royal family or is homeless our conscious choices as to how we act, react or inact determines our karma in my view.
So a king may be surrounded by wealth, power and every luxury and fame but the condition of his soul is his true reality and if he is just then his soul becomes enlightened but if he is a tyrant his spirit becomes ill.
The same with the homeless person. If he acts nobly he will advance spiritually but if he becomes a thief instead of trying to earn an honest living then he pollutes his own soul and like the king’s soul becomes ill or enlightened.
Each one of us determines our own fate no one else. We make choices and decisions and there is karma or consequence attached to each action or non action.
So for instance there are sins of omission and commission. It’s not only things we do wrong or right but things that we dont do that have significant consequences on our souls.
Allowing wars, poverty, oppression and crime to continue i feel strongly is our fault collectively. I believe we as human beings have a responsiblity to eliminate poverty and such. While these things exists humanity i believe is to blame because if we really care there are options and resources available to wholly eliminate poverty but have thus far choosen not to do do because war and arms sales are profitable.
Then where are the people uniting against war and violence war and military spending? Where is the movement for world peace? So we just enjoy our lives while others suffer?
We can all come together and people can end wars and poverty if we really want to. Why then out of compassion for the suffering don’t we unite?
The wrong and injustice in the world is allowed to continue simply because good people don’t speak up and unite. We have allowed our world to do this to itself. We can unite and turn around this ship, why don’t we? The question is not whether can do it but whether we really care about humanity.
So karma decrees that peace and unity and happiness evades us as long as we don’t care and I believe we don’t