Karmic bondage and relationships

Karmic bondage is honestly such a fascinating topic. I recently read about it. We always hear "karma" and instantly think it's about our actions — you do good, you get good, and vice versa. But karmic bondage? That’s deeper. It’s more about the inner stuff. Like, what’s actually going on inside your head when you do something.

Compare it to a snakes and ladders board — like, imagine your life is this huge board, and every time you do something with good intent, you're sketching a ladder going up. But if your actions are driven by ego, jealousy, selfishness, or even fake kindness, then you're drawing snakes. And the tricky part? You might do a good deed — like donating money — but if your thoughts are like “Ugh, poor people are such a burden” or you secretly feel superior while doing it… then it’s not really a ladder. That’s a snake and it'll pull you down. 

What we think in our minds, even if we never say it out loud, matters a lot. It all gets stored, and builds this whole karmic web around us with ladders which take us to the next level 'Bhakti' and Snakes which pull us down into a trap. And when it gets too heavy or messy, it starts showing up as stress, weird emotional blocks, and even health issues. Like, sometimes you're doing everything right on the outside but you still feel mentally stuck or drained? That could be your karmic baggage acting up.

And then come karmic relationships — this part hit me so hard. Not every relationship is karmic, but when it is, you’ll know. It’s those weirdly intense bonds where you can’t figure out what’s going on. Like, you feel some sort of attraction towards them despite wanting to erase them but somehow, they’re still in your head. It’s that unexplainable connection, the kind where even if everything goes wrong, there's this weird pull. That person might be tied to your past life or past karmic debt. They show up in your current life to teach you stuff — about love, ego, pain, letting go, whatever. It’s not always about staying together — sometimes their role is just to trigger your growth and leave.

Every person you meet has a meaning in your life each one with a purpose to make you learn lessons. 

You never meet people just to meet them it’s always destined to be in a way that the universe makes you come together and that period when you meet them is also decided prior. 

Something similar to the burned toast theory about which I'll write some other day.