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Karma - A Path to Our Deeds


Our life is revolving around some kind of energy between the cycle of birth and death. One thing needs to be understood very clearly: Birth is not the beginning - Death is never the end. 
We all are connected spiritually and we name that energy as God.
It really makes me wonder that people all over the world believe in God, only what differs is the name and religion from place to place like Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Christianity, Jainism, Sikhism etc. Somewhere all these religions teach us to do good Karma. 
In every country there are certain rules and regulations that one must follow and on not abiding, the person may face legal consequences. Countries impose law and order to provide security and justice for all their citizens and also to maintain peace. Similarly "Karma" - Karma is a law that one needs to follow in spiritual world to achieve that inner peace in one's life. Karma is closely related to your action. It means each and every action combined with your intention plays a key role in determining your karma. Sometimes you may be smart and powerful enough to escape the eyes of country's law but much to our astonishment no one can escape from karma. That's because nobody can escape from one own self. Since childhood, till date I'm sure we all might have experienced some small or big incidents from our life which might have exclusively explained us the importance of karma. 
In simpler ways we can say, "Karma is like a boomerang, it gives back what you give."
For the people who don't believe in God/religions, karma is like a fundamental mechanism of our existence. It applies to everyone regardless of belief., I mean we are the one responsible for our actions and most importantly for the intention of our actions. 
As you sow, so shall you reap. We bifurcate it as good harvest/bad harvest but it is just 'our harvest.' Let's try to understand how everything is connected. Karma doesn't reward or punish us, it just adjusts the effect of our actions with perfect balance. Throughout the life we have been blessed with total freedom to react on each and every situation that comes our way and karma does fair justice by giving back to us what exactly we did. 
What really matters is time i.e everything will be paid back today, tomorrow or may be after some years. Here's a wonderful story by Gautam Buddha explaining Karma...
Once Gautam Buddha was explaining about Karma to his disciples.
Buddha said- Let me tell you a story on Karma.
A king was touring his kingdom with his minister. Suddenly the king stopped in front of a shop and said- "I don't know why I want to hang the owner of this shop. I just don't want to see this man in my kingdom." The minister got shocked and wanted to ask the king but before he could ask anything the king left angrily from that place. The minister kept thinking what made the king so angry on that shopkeeper, how can one cultivate hatred on someone without even knowing that person.  Next day the minister went to that shop dressed as local to see the shopkeeper. He casually asked the shopkeeper how his business was going. 
The shopkeeper, a sandalwood merchant sadly explained that he hardly had customers nowadays. People come to his shop, smell the sandalwood, enquire about the prize, praise the quality of the sandalwood and then go away without buying anything or they buy in very less quantity. With this income it's really hard to run the business. Now his only hope was king should die soon. As I am the only sandalwood merchant here in this whole village there would be a huge demand for sandalwood from me for performing his last rites.
Now the minister understood why the king had stopped in front of his shop and desired to kill the owner of this shop. It was the shopkeeper's negative thought vibration towards the king which in turn arised  the same negative thought for the shopkeeper within the king. The merchant after thinking for a while expressed his wish to buy a big piece of sandalwood for himself without revealing who he is.
The merchant happily wrapped the sandalwood in a cloth and handed it to the minister. The minister went straight to the palace and handed the package to the king and said- "The sandalwood merchant has sent a gift for him." The king got surprised and opened the package and found a beautiful piece of golden sandalwood and was mesmerized by its fragrance. The king felt sorry for upbringing the thoughts of killing the merchant just by looking at him yesterday and sent some gold coins to the sandalwood merchant.
When the shopkeeper received the gold coins from an unknown person saying the king has sent him reward for selling the best quality sandalwood in his kingdom, he felt so thankful as the king saved him from poverty through these gold coins. He also felt shameful and guilty for the thoughts he had for the king and felt regretful foe having negative thought for someone just to fulfill his selfish personal goals.
Ending this story Gautam Buddha explained - "If we have good and kind thought for another person, positive thought will come back to us from that person. And if we have evil thoughts for a person, negativity will come back to us and that's the rule and power of vibrations. Karma is reflection of: Our words, our deeds, our feelings, our intentions and our actions.

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