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Concept of Karma in short

Just like that, we start with something else one of the journeys ends, and 1 more starts. We only are the passengers freely flowing in the cosmos, we get born, we travel and somewhere our journey ends we don’t exactly know where it begins and ends. We don’t even know if it ends.



According to Bhagwat Gita we take several births and live several lives and deal with such people, the deeds we do, the emotions we create in our fellow passengers is what we call karma. The written note of everything we did, do, or will do. The balance sheet that decides what we deserve and how much

. It has a line where Krishna describes that he and Arjun have had many lives spent together only that parth doesn’t remember them.

Then is the western philosophy of YOLO wherein you only live once and whatever is there that is this life. We live once and die too only once. All the good and bad are summed up only in a lifetime i.e., birth to death.

The Indian philosophy adds these two. It gives us the concept of karma and prabdh. Karma as explained above is the set of all the deeds done over all the number of lifetimes whereas the prabdh is the balance sheet of this life only.

So, when talking about the results and the fruits of the deeds done by a person, we get a mix of both karma and prabdh. This explains the nice guys finished last and how the bad guys get away with so much. Maybe the bad guys did something good in the past lives and vice versa.

Fortunately, we don’t have to deal with all that math. I guess till the time we are alive we have to do good to whoever and wherever we can. This includes the mental part as well. Talking sweet on the face while planning with a cunning attitude is not considered as good karma.

Human are imitating creatures and we need some example or ideal to live by and hence all the tribes and basically, all the human social structure is based on a pack leader, or a king or the alpha male that all the other ones follow.

In Gita, Krishna says this again, “there is nothing in the cosmos that I don’t have or can’t get, I don’t need to work(karma) I am free from all the shackles of karma. Yet I work, I work to set an example for the humanities and to guide and set an ideal to the human potential.” He also says that the masses follow what the leader does and not what he says. Hence action is far superior to words or mere show.

Therefore, when it all boils down we get a message that says to mind your own work and don’t see where and how others are benefiting because we don’t know the factors contributing to their success or the battles they fight.

We should work for the sake of work and try to set an example for others. It’s not only what we do that matters but also the people we work with and the emotions/intentions behind the job.

 

 

 


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