Law of Karma
by Nit
Its 10 am on a Sunday morning and a baby is born at a posh
locality of South Delhi. The parents are overwhelmed with
happiness and cant stop rejoicing as the baby is born after
10 years of their marriage. They are rich and thus pledge that
they will provide all comforts of the world to their only child.
At exactly the same time, somewhere in rural Bihar another baby
is born. Shes the fifth sibling in the family. Parents are
worried as they dont know how they will feed another mouth
when the family is already so poor.
If we look at these two examples, we can imagine about the kind
of lives these two children should have been living. A lot of
people will ascribe this as the result of the souls karma.
But the question arises What is karma and how does it
work. According to Hindu upanishads, Karma means the
deed or act which can be broadly defined into more
accepted universal terms of cause and effect. Some
parts of it are controlled, like birth, environment etc. but
majority are of our own making.
Here the karmas of their last birth led these children into two
totally different lives.
We are therefore born with a unique genetic makeup. Our memories
and perceptions govern our outlook in any situation we face. Our
actions reinforce our memories in a feedback loop-type mechanism
and whenever a particular situation arises, we react
accordingly. Through understanding of this law, we can adjust
our actions to either change an ongoing situation, or gain new
perspective on a past situation so that we can avoid repetition
of the same mistake.
People generally feel gloomy as memories of some unpleasant
events etch out.. This leads to sadness and they start feeling
depressed.. The level of enthusiasm recedes and slowly leads
them to desperation.. If we can understand the law of
karma well, these emotional swings can be overcome
completely. What we need to do is develop a sense of
differentiating between positive and negative thoughts. Its a
long process that needs both patience and practice.
We need to identify our own self and think positive. This does
not mean that we start suppressing unhappy memories, as that
will lead us to a more focused mind towards events that we want
to forget. We can instead work on erasing them from our mind
completely by willfully doing so.. This would make negative
things irrelevant with time and we would be empowered with the
force of optimism within us thus leading towards a happy life.
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About the author:
I am working as a recruitment consultant & also do freelance
writing. I believe in offbeat spirituality.
And yes - I am from India