THE PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY
OFACTION (KARMA) AND
DESTINY (BHAGYA)
When we write down our own script and act on it, sometimes, this goes as per our plans and,
Sometimes, goes haywire. When the change or going is nice, no questions are asked; but, when the change or going is not good, we ask questions: “Why this happened to me, when I haven’t done anything
Wrong. Why this pain to me?” We also put a question mark on the Almighty and blame Him for all themes in our life.
Let us, now, pause here and have another look, thus: 1. Visualize your children (say,They are two) and imagine that you as a parent are told to write their destiny. What will you write? Obviously, you will write it as perfect and also equal for both the children. Yes, nothing less than perfect. Now, imagine that the Supreme Father (God) was to write destiny of all His children. How would it be? Yes, perfect for all of us in all respects. But, actually, it is not so. Now, look around the world: there is a wide disparity in the way people live their lives – some are born with golden spoon in their mouth whereas others are born on the streets. Why are the two children different? One is healthy and the other is mentally retarded, whereas both have not done anything good or bad in this life.
We wonder why God has written such a miserable destiny for some. This is neither perfect nor equal. He is the Supreme Father and should make our destiny perfect; but, it is not so. This means that He does not
Write our destiny.
Similarly, many times we do a lot of hard work but without any success; on the other hand, sometimes, without any hard work we get success. Why so? Who decides this? If all this would have been happening because of God’s will, there would have been total peace, h a r m o n y, s u c c e s s a n d prosperity; but, it is not so. All around the world, there are miseries, sadness, accidents, severe health issues and natural calamities. Where is God now? Do we still believe that the Supreme Father writes down our destiny? No, He does not. How can He write such miserable destiny for His?
Children? Now, let us look at the other side. Whatever action (Karma) I am doing, I am getting its result. For example, if I am nice to someone, he is normally nice to me, and vice versa.
If I take care of my health, my health is normally fine; on the other hand, if I don’t take care of myself, my health suffers. If I am studying well, I am getting good result; but, if I am not studying or skipping school, the result is
Obviously bad. If I am angry with someone, I also get back his aggression, may be through words or thoughts. So, we get back the results of our actions. It is time to think that we are the creators of our own destiny.
As a parent you cannot write down the destiny of your child. You can only guide him, advice him, support him; so, ultimately, the result is based upon child’s own actions or efforts (Karmas). The same is true for all of us. Let us not hold God responsible for our destiny. Let us take the responsibility or charge in our hands and understand one equation of life: “As you do your action; so, you get your destiny” (Jaisa Karma karoge, Vaisa Bhagya Paoge). Whatever is happening in our life, is the result of whatever we are doing in the present or have done in the past, in this birth or previous births – this is what the philosophy of Action (Karma Darshan) is all about. So, every thought I create, every word I speak and every action that I do, is my action (Karma) – and it will ripple back to me today or tomorrow as my destiny (Bhagya). This means “As we sow, so shall we reap”. We cannot get an apple from a mango tree.
If someone does any wrong to us, what should we do? Do we return the same or do we send good wishes? Whatever energy we send out, we will get back sooner or later.
When we get an understanding of Karma philosophy that whatever we give, returns to us; it changes the way we perceive the people and situations. Instead of creating feelings of anger, resentment, blame, criticism or revenge, we can have the choice to change the quality of our karmic account on the basis of the principle: “One, who does, will get” (Jo Karega, so payega). Now, only one person is required to change the negative account. Otherwise, it is a never-ending game of exchanging and compounding negative thoughts and deeds, and that person is: I Myself. If I have to change my destiny, I have to do right action (Karma).
Suppose, one person, Mr. A, has cheated and betrayed Mr. Bin a big way. Now, both are in pain – the one, who cheated, is in immense guilt and pain as he is aware that he has done wrong. Whereas the person, who is cheated, is also in pain because of anger, hatred and revenge. After this, they parted ways and never met each other, and, after some years, they left their bodies. They do not have any remembrance of the past births now. They meet again in new costume (body) in their next birth and, because of the negative and harmful exchange of energies, they do not like each other and wonder why they are not at all comfortable with each other and , as a consequence, some adverse actions happen. This is the result of previous action (Karma), as they had not settled the account in their previous births. To end the karmic accounts, only one person has to take the initiative in sending the positive vibrations.
Let us try to understand further with an exercise: I have a ball in my hand and I throw it with full force to the opposite wall. Once, the ball goes out of my hand, it is not in my control. The ball hits the wall and will come back - this is pure science. Now, the ball, which is going out,
refers to my thoughts, words and actions, called “Karmas”. And the ball, which is coming back, refers to my problems/ situations/health issues/relationship-related issues. They can be good or bad, depending on what I had sent out and this is called my best in (Bhagya) . In the process, I forget that one day it was I myself, who had thrown this ball, which is coming back to me.
If I give anger or love, respect or hatred, jealousy or kindness, help or deceit – this energy goes out like an echo and comes back to me equally and more intensely. However, sometimes, this comes back immediately and, sometimes, after days, may be after months and years and even after a few lives. Then, we wonder: why it happened to me? Because, we have forgotten that one day we had sent this energy (good
or bad) in the universe, maybe in the remote past. Good intentions/actions will create good intention / actions and bad intentions/ actions will definitely create b and intentions/actions.
Let us try to understand this, thus: What was the closing account of 31st March (last day of our last birth) is exactly the same opening account on 1st April (next birth).
God doesn’t write our destiny; rather, we write our own, based upon our actions (Karmas). Now, who is the controller of my destiny – it is I myself and not He. I create my own destiny on the basis of how I speak, what I think, what I do – right or wrong. Let us try to be aware of ourselves – what we are sending out are these black ping pong balls (hatred,
anger, blame, deceit, etc.) or white balls with right energy (love, trust, respect, help, peace, happiness, etc.)
On Diwali, we make a list – which sorts of gift we have to give to others. We, then, try to remember which gifts they had given to us last time. So, we normally give them a gift of approximately the same cost. Now, this is one way of giving. If we come to know that whatever we are going to give as gifts to them, is definitely going to come back to us; then, what should we like to give them? Definitely, the gifts of the same value that they had given or of some much higher cost. Irrespective of the cost, I will give them
invaluable gift because I am certain that this is coming back to me.
The balance sheet of action (Karma) say: Suppose, we deposit 100 righteous actions (Karmas) in our karmic account and just 1 wrong action (Karma); then, how does our karmic balance sheet look like? Is it 100 – 1 = 99? No, it is wrong. Every action (Karma) has a consequence. Our righteous actions (karmas) cannot wipe out the consequence of the wrong one. So, we need to be very careful of each and every thought, word and action. So, why should we not start giving blessings and good wishes to all? The Law of Act ion (Karma) says: Everything comes back one day, today or tomorrow. We get what we give. You and I will never understand the damage you and I did to someone until the similar thing happens to you and me. That is why you are and I am here.
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