The “good or “bad" things happen to us not because, in a previous life, we were once “good” or "bad" to others. Is happens because of the ignorance of the true self, which is soul/Christ/Brahman. It is foolish to accept the karma theory without verifying the fact that, when body is not the experiencer of the body itself.
The karmic account cannot be settled on the physical self, because it is not the author of the three states. Thus, karma theory is based on the false self [‘I’], believing the false experience [waking] as reality.
On the base of Soul/Christ/Buddha, experience of the birth, life and death is mere illusion. Thus, whatever is based on the false self has to be part of the illusion. By accepting the karma theory makes one hold the false self, as real self. Therefore, self-knowledge is necessary to understand and assimilate what is truth/Christ/Buddha/Brahman.
