Gambling seems to be a permanent fixture in human culture. Even with the advent of computers and WiFi, we see websites offering online gaming, with televised poker matches drawing significant viewing audiences to be just spectators. What is Creator’s perspective?

Here again is the lure of easy winnings, doing something simple to understand, that gives a person a chance to gain something of value with a modest investment. It is another form of competitiveness that carries with it the opportunity to best others and come out feeling superior and garnering at least grudging respect from the losers for one’s perceived prowess. If you look more deeply at games of chance, they are either rigged mechanically, by virtue of the rules to make all, eventually, losers over time, or if there is fairness through the imposition of a random presentation of playing cards, for example, the players themselves can best their opponents through being more experienced and smarter in understanding the odds and having a discipline to stay within reasonable levels of risk to not overplay their hand and squander their money. Unfortunately, most card games escalate to a level where players are playing against one another and against simply the odds of chance in the cards they are being dealt. The ability to bluff and choose the size of one’s bet, and to control their body language allows shrewd players to mislead their opponents and gain an advantage by encouraging them to bet too heavily against someone who is holding a sure thing in their hand. This is frank dishonesty, and not only dishonesty but active manipulation in a dishonest way to gain a tactical advantage. When such games are played for money, as is usually the case, there are further consequences beyond simply coming out the winner or the loser and dealing with the emotional impact that seems to call for. Many people have become homeless through becoming addicted to gambling and are unable to stop themselves. This is aided and abetted by mind control manipulation as well because the interlopers know it is hugely destructive behavior and they encourage everything that is dark and harmful. To the light being, the idea of cheating someone, if only in pretending to have something one does not, would be unthinkable because it is immoral and it will also incur a karmic penalty. This, of course, the human card players are blithely unaware of, that everything they do in their pursuit of winning will likely backfire against them and bring not only painful losses in the near-term, but a greater penalty in the future returning to them as a karmic lesson, causing them difficulty and loss in full measure to what they were attempting to inflict on others, whether successful or not in doing so. Humans have a long ways to go to appreciate the meaning and consequences of karma in everything they do.