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The law of karma

 

As you sow, so shall you reap - that's one proverb or saying that I have kept hearing since I was a child. It is mostly used to inspire people to always be on their best behaviour, be kind, caring and mindful of doing good for others. From the societal view, that seems like a very convenient philosophy for a good, safe and prospering social engineering. It also puts in the fear in your heart to avoid doing anything bad, as you will get it back with interest. 

Now you take a look at any of the major religion and they all have this philosophy embedded into it. Like all the religions that originated in India they have the concept of re-incarnation and that your deeds are carried over into the next life, and you get what's due, even if it's not in this life. For Abrahamic religions, it's the concept of heaven and hell, and that just doesn't seem to for one life, but for an endless eternity. Now those are quite good motivational ideas to get people to do good and build a nicer and fairer society, with high moral character. 

So I can understand when some people are a bit sceptical about this, and don't think that it's true - and I don't blame them. They see people who apparently, and in some cases blatantly, have been doing bad things but live or have lived a very comfortable and pleasurable life. So when a guru or preacher then explains it off by saying, "Well, they are going to suffer for it in hell/next life", it then depends on your faith in the guru/preacher and how much you believe him. As no one has been through that experience and come back to reveal the secrets. 

But as an analyser we might be forgetting that, what we thought as a comfortable and pleasurable life for that person, he might have been in agony which was invisible to the measurement criteria that we had set from our perspective. Most of the times, we only measure things in terms of physical comforts and money and conveniences, which I agree are important, but there are sufferings which are invisible to our eyes. And the person who has performed any action in his life, will have to accept it's consequences, sooner or later. The law of karma works every time, whether you like it or not, sometimes the results are quick and obvious and sometimes they could be delayed or invisible to others. It's like the saying goes, if you sow a seed, depending on nature of the seed and the land and soil that it is sown in, it could give you the fruits either quickly in a few days or weeks or for some type of seeds it could take decades before you actually see the first fruit springing out of it's tree. 

This works both ways, so every action taken towards a definite purpose will pay dividends in some form or the other. Keep working towards it and slowly and steadily and maybe miraculously (if you believe in miracles) you will start to notice things starting to happen themselves, hopefully sooner rather than later. 


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