"Karma, you did not allow me to eat ice cream and there you go down with flu" was my daughter's remark on my flu. Last weekend, after lunch at home my daughter wanted ice cream for dessert. I cautioned her not to eat ice cream in fear of she catching flu. I, on other hand was having sore throat for past few days and caught cold the same day and she remarked it is Karma.
A week back during a train ride, overheard a conversation by a couple seated next to me. The lady was complaining to her man about one of her colleague on how he did not provide her the data required. Later on the day the colleague was scolded by the boss for a delayed shipment. Her partner's remark was "Karma, what goes around comes around" and both laughed out.
"Karma" is becoming a commonly used term and more fashionable. But in today context is this word rightly understood and used?
Karma is a Sanskrit term and the governing doctrine of Buddhism meaning law of moral causation. But the concept of karma was long used in India even before Buddhism made it popular. A very old Tamil proverb goes, "வி னை வி தை த் தவ ன் வி னை அ று ப் பா ன்", which means you reap what you sow.
If we take the right meaning, what has karma got to do with me catching cold and not allowing my daughter to eat ice cream? Similarly what happened to the colleague of lady in train does it have anything to do with karma? They are just coincidences.
Like plantations take time to grow, karma takes years for people to realize their good and bad karma (provided they relate the present to past). "அ ர ச ன் அன்று கொல்வான், தெய்வம் நின்று கொல்லும்" which translated means king kills immediately while god waits to kill. In a fast paced technological world, are coincidences made to look as if god also kills immediately? Is this why people have started to use karma for all actions and reactions?
Keep your thoughts sincere and actions in line to that, don't worry about the results, karma will take care of rest. This is Karma, the moral causation.
A week back during a train ride, overheard a conversation by a couple seated next to me. The lady was complaining to her man about one of her colleague on how he did not provide her the data required. Later on the day the colleague was scolded by the boss for a delayed shipment. Her partner's remark was "Karma, what goes around comes around" and both laughed out.
"Karma" is becoming a commonly used term and more fashionable. But in today context is this word rightly understood and used?
Karma is a Sanskrit term and the governing doctrine of Buddhism meaning law of moral causation. But the concept of karma was long used in India even before Buddhism made it popular. A very old Tamil proverb goes, "வி னை வி தை த் தவ ன் வி னை அ று ப் பா ன்", which means you reap what you sow.
If we take the right meaning, what has karma got to do with me catching cold and not allowing my daughter to eat ice cream? Similarly what happened to the colleague of lady in train does it have anything to do with karma? They are just coincidences.
Like plantations take time to grow, karma takes years for people to realize their good and bad karma (provided they relate the present to past). "அ ர ச ன் அன்று கொல்வான், தெய்வம் நின்று கொல்லும்" which translated means king kills immediately while god waits to kill. In a fast paced technological world, are coincidences made to look as if god also kills immediately? Is this why people have started to use karma for all actions and reactions?
Keep your thoughts sincere and actions in line to that, don't worry about the results, karma will take care of rest. This is Karma, the moral causation.