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    Karma

    By C.S. Bairagi

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    Anyone who makes a dedicated effort to know this creation finds nothing but laws. The scientist and the spiritualist both discover them in their own special way. They are both walking towards the creator but from two totally different directions. When they set out on their quests, they appear to be antagonists but when they reach their destination they find themselves standing at the same spot. After a certain point, the scientist turns spiritual and the spiritualist turns scientific. The scientist reaches the conclusion that he is only discovering laws; the source that they are all emanating from remains unknown. The spiritualist reaches the conclusion that in every moment, the whole cosmos is unfolding and it is all unfolding lawfully.

    Without its laws, it would not have been possible for the existence to even last a single minute and if any of these laws was bent by even one millionth of a precision, the whole cosmos would collapse. Everything is related to everything else; nothing exists in isolation. The harmony of the cosmos is beyond our imagination and there is nothing that can disrupt it. The greatest of destructions and upheavals are nothing but the creation restoring itself to a balance. The law of Karma happens to be just one of these laws and we need to understand its participation in the dance called life. We ought to look at it the way a scientist looks at the law of gravitation. Our approach has to be purely scientific, purely objective. Our observations must not suffer from a bias. If Newton had thrown a hundred apples towards the sky and one of them did not fall back to the ground, he would not have called gravitation a law. The utility and efficiency of a law lies in its being immune to circumstances. It should apply itself each and every time, without fail. Even expeditions that are centered on going away from the earth, cannot succeed without the force that pulls them towards the earth. They rely on the gravitational pull in carrying out their experiments. And that is the beauty of a law - its reliability. If you have suffered according to the law of Karma, then you can also attain salvation by respecting the same law and using it to your advantage. We walk and run by using the law of gravitation but if we stumble over something, we cannot blame the law for that. If we respect a law, it is our friend; if we try to violate it, it is our enemy. The law has nothing to gain or lose from the results we produce with the choice that we make. It exists beyond all this.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMoksh Publications
    Release dateDec 17, 2018
    ISBN9788193160572
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      Karma - C.S. Bairagi

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      Iam deeply thankful to all the visible and invisible hands that have gone into the making of this book. Without their assistance and blessings, I could not have done it. From the ones who inspired me to write, to the one who has handed it to you, they all play a significant role in the manifestation of this work and have made it possible for me to reach out to you and share my being with you.

      I am as grateful to those who have printed and distributed my work, as I am to those who have earned for all of us, the right to freedom of expression. There were days when it was not possible for an individual to speak the truth and share it with others. We are all very fortunate to be able to do so and should respect this freedom by not saying anything or writing anything that invades the space of others and hurts their sentiments. I therefore earnestly thank the ones who reviewed my work and provided me with a healthy feedback.

      Even the tree, the wood of which the paper of this book is made from, deserves my thank you. We are all connected in a way that goes far beyond that which is obvious and we often fail to extend our gratitude to the silent existence that helps us realize our dreams. I thank everyone and everything responsible for all that I am and this book is a gift from me to mother-nature.

      Chapter 1 – The Law Of Karma

      My choice of a topic is very simple; I consider every topic a riddle to be solved and I pick up the one that has troubled me the most. Because if it has troubled me, it must be troubling a lot of my fellow beings since we are all contemporaries. While working on my own suffering and the suffering of others I realized that a lot of us do not fully understand the word Karma. The way we use the word indicates that we are not prepared to accept our responsibility for the role that our actions have to play in the unfolding of our destiny. We tend to blame others for our own mistakes and fail to see that in doing so, the root of our suffering goes unnoticed. Our attention stays focused on the other and our own actions escape our gaze. We keep on looking for something under the street light; something that was lost inside the darkness of our house. In our vain attempts to defend the ego, we shut ourselves to the wisdom of the law of Karma; the wisdom that can liberate us from all give and takes once and for all.

      Whenever we use the word destiny or Karma in our conversations, it appears as if we are talking about a fate that was inscribed on our forehead and palms by the creator and is beyond our control. It is one of the most intelligent escapes that we have designed for ourselves to avoid the responsibility which comes with admitting that we are the architects of our life. Only a few of us use our intelligence in realizing the truth; most of us use it in escaping from it. Our intelligence is merely a tool; how we use it depends upon us. We cannot manipulate the laws of the existence with our mind and the law of Karma is one of these laws which can neither be bent nor broken.

      Anyone who makes a dedicated effort to know this creation finds nothing but laws. The scientist and the spiritualist both discover them in their own special way. They are both walking towards the creator but from two totally different directions. When they set out on their quests, they appear to be antagonists but when they reach their destination they find themselves standing at the same spot. After a certain point, the scientist turns spiritual and the spiritualist turns scientific. The scientist reaches the conclusion that he is only discovering laws; the source that they are all emanating from remains unknown. The spiritualist reaches the conclusion that in every moment, the whole cosmos is unfolding and it is all unfolding lawfully.

      Without its laws, it would not have been possible for the existence to even last a single minute and if any of these laws was bent by even one millionth of a precision, the whole cosmos would collapse. Everything is related to everything else; nothing exists in isolation. The harmony of the cosmos is beyond our imagination and there is nothing that can disrupt it. The greatest of destructions and upheavals are nothing but the creation restoring itself to a balance. The law of Karma happens to be just one of these laws and we need to understand its participation in the dance called life. We ought to look at it the way a scientist looks at the law of gravitation. Our approach has to be purely scientific, purely objective. Our observations must not suffer from a bias. If Newton had thrown a hundred apples towards the sky and one of them did not fall back to the ground, he would not have called gravitation a law. The utility and efficiency of a law lies in its being immune to circumstances. It should apply itself each and every time, without fail. Even expeditions that are centered on going away from the earth, cannot succeed without the force that pulls them towards the earth. They rely on the gravitational pull in carrying out their experiments. And that is the beauty of a law - its reliability. If you have suffered according to the law of Karma, then you can also attain salvation by respecting the same law and using it to your advantage. We walk and run by using the law of gravitation but if we stumble over something, we cannot blame the law for that. If we respect a law, it is our friend; if we try to violate it, it is our enemy. The law has nothing to gain or lose from the results we produce with the choice that we make. It exists beyond all this.

      Even an incarnation of God like Shri Krishna, lived according to the laws of the existence though he had the power to play with these laws, the way a child plays with his toys. He obeyed the laws in order to set an example for the rest of the mankind. In Bhagvad Geeta he makes it absolutely clear to Arjun that there is nothing he needs to do but he does it to avoid leading others on the wrong path. He says, In all the three worlds that exist, there is nothing that is not available to me. I have no duty to perform and nothing to achieve. But still I do not disobey the law of karma and live according to it. He further adds, The supreme being has to be very careful in what he does because the whole mankind looks up to him for direction. He had to elaborate on the law of Karma to assist Arjun in fighting against injustice since Arjun found himself facing a very complicated situation. The significance of the dialogue between Shri Krishna and Arjun lies in the fact that at some point in our life, each and every one of us is just as confused about what to do and what not to as Arjun was. The fundamentals of life have always been the same; the change that we see is very peripheral. The sacred texts are as fresh as a dew drop for someone who is open to their wisdom.

      Even when a small baby falls off the bed, the law of gravity does not say, Oh! It’s just a small baby; I must not be harsh with it. The laws are protected against all influence. But, from the way we live our lives, it seems that we have assumed this existence can be manipulated. Our God can see us when we are worshipping it but when we are doing something immoral, it looks the other way and totally ignores our act or is busy helping someone in need. When someone does something bad to us we say, As you sow so shall you reap but when we do something bad to someone we expect the soil in which we have sown the seeds to be infertile. We assume that we will not have to reap what we have sown and the seed will stay a seed. We try to twist and turn the laws of the existence the way we twist and turn the laws of our country. But we fail very badly and this failure is the first step towards the understanding of the Great Way. This defeat develops in us, a respect for the laws of

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