Truth About Karma

Karma simply means the sum total of our actions, their consequences and our responsibility for i. We cannot sit idle when something bad happens to us and say with a fatalistic shrug "It is my karma", We have toi take remedial measures, not just wait for the Karma roulette to touch our number.. "Karma": is a word often used by pwoplw to escape their responsibilities but Karma means you can't escape the consequences of your action and WE must stanmdup AND TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THEM..

 

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These thoughts nearly echoes the principles of author of The Art Of Living.
When my son approached Bank manager to refund excess money coughed out by ATM, manager told him that it would be difficult to account for the money at his branch level and had suggested to enjoy the excess money.

He drove away and then at an intersection he was stopped by a traffic constable who emerged from hiding demanding fine for jumping the signal. He paid the fine with that excess amount on hand and felt it was "instant karma".

I am now reminded about Duryodhana’s enquiry to Lord Krishna in Maha Bharata which I had copied from my previous feedback to @HariLakhera ’s another post.

Dridrashtra (D) born blind & could never see his own sons in his life time including their dead bodies lying in battle field.

At the end of Khurushethra battle, D in genuflect before Lord Krishna, beseeched to tell him the cause for his total blindness and that he could never see his own sons.

Then Lord Krishna held D to get up, began telling him about operation of karma formula.

He told that People born suffers one or more of Kriyamana Karma, Sanchita Karma & Prarabdha Karma. Kriyamana Karma accrues due to day to day activities and it’s sequel one would face in a few days. The other two karmas are entwined: together, it stays and cumulated. Prarabdha Karma is part of sanchit karma that derived from previous birth or births which could be good or bad, positive or negative.

Then Lord Offers D “inner vision” for him to see happenings of his past births and the one happened before fifty and odd births.

D discovered that some fifty odd births before, he was a gruesome hunter and happened to have had fun just threw a net in aflame over a tree that was home for one hundred young fledglings. In the fire engulfed, many birds’ lives extinguished instantly. Few birds could manage to escape, but then heat of the fire blinded them.

And so, due to this effect of Sanchita Karma, D was destined to remain blind in this Life and also lose his 100 sons.

After listening in rapt attention to Lord Krishna’s insightful essay on a nutshell, D felt effete, queried the Lord as to why he was not made to suffer punishment in that birth itself but deferred it to his present birth.

Lord Krishna casting an enigmatic smile, in response said,

“Your Karma had to wait for an opportune time for 50 and odd births. During that period, you would earn and gather pious deeds adequately to attain the merit of being born as a king and have fathered One Hundred sons. The Sanchita Karma accumulated over the last fifty and odd births would influence your life as Prarabdha Karma and you could then encounter instantaneously with that settling effects of your past evil action.”

Karma appears to be a divine law of cause & effect by which every thought, word & deed justly boomerang on him or her in present and or future life.

So Truth Of Karma is:

One develops to remain compassionate ever, knowing that every experience, evil or noble, good or bad, is only the self-created reward of prior expressions of free will.