Acceleration of Karma, Past Lives
People like to generalise thus putting all negative events together. They consider everything as of karmic origin as if free will also causing new karma did not exist. If everything had to do with karma and man had not his own will for new actions there would be no development. Many innocent people many times better than the majority was were victims of free will of others. There are known many cases in the history - the death by fire and the torture in the period of the darkness, the persecution and the killing of prophets and concentration camps. Free will gives man opportunity: either to make easier the atonement of the fault or even to entangle the threads of "hard" destiny by a new karma.
If all evil and injustice were accepted by a human passively as his or her karma and he did not fight for his rights he would multiply the evil of the other people because he would allow them to keep on hurting him without resistance.
How man can recognise what is karma and what is not? Theoretically, it is very simple but actually, it is difficult. He needs to dispose of maximum frankness and openness towards himself. When he reflects on things causing him the suffering in his life and when he realises those things like that he is doing also to other people even though unintentionally he figures out that he is punished by karma and not by free will of others. This way only man can distinguish between the deserved and undeserved evil. No one else but the human himself must understand and help himself.
Acceleration of karma. When some people start to improve themselves they feel to be attacked by much bigger evil than before. The accelerated purification which manifests itself by many negative influences and events occurs in these cases. This fact discourages people from the good intention to continue in the positive development. They do not know that instead of redeeming of guilts till the end of their lives they would suffer only a few years or shorter in case of the "turn".
The term karma is also used in a positive meaning. One talks about good karma when someone's life is accompanied by the success, wealth, winnings and inheritance without using unfair methods or the excessive effort. In this case envy is not the right manifestation because this is a multiplied crop of one's past actions. Envy is a treacherous weapon for those who create it because in reciprocal actions they will be hurt in the form of an illness or a loss though.
The word karma can also mean a task, a mission with which a human is born to bring a new knowledge and help to mankind. It is already determined before the incarnation. Into this group belong the great scientists especially in the field of medicine, artists, prophets, etc.
It is not important to know whether an event is karmic or new. Man shall not examine his past lives. If he remembered them he could not forgive his relatives the evil they committed thus hindering them unintentionally to make atonement for it. Man who would remember his past lives would live in his present life as an indifferent observer in the redeeming of a guilt or accepting of the good. He would not live through the events fully, in all emotional depths and heights so that his soul would not develop. After the death it would return to the astral world just as matured as it left it before the birth. However, it shall develop in each life by experiencing.
If it were useful or necessary, man would also remember the past lives. The strong emotional experience from the past lives only influence and improve a human and his opinions. For example, man who survived a war as a victim does not remember the details about how he suffered but in his subconscious he knows that the war is horrible and that he does not wish it.
If he knew everything in advance what comes in his life he would not develop the effort for independent decisions and he could not cultivate free will. Anyone for whom it is necessary to know about the future or about one's past lives will get a message even if one did not want to. Anyone for whom it is a hindrance will not know it even though one wanted to.
Each human has its own karma which cannot be recognised and shall not be recognised by other people.