Karma

Once upon a time, there was a genius called Albert Einstein. No! He didn’t give the doctrine of Karma, he gave us a question- Why is that when I put the mass of all the matter in this universe together & then compare it with the total mass of the universe, it is always less? So, he used a constant to balance the equation & called it Cosmological Constant. Later, he called it his biggest mistake. But today, scientists at CERN, have proven that Einstein wasn’t mistaken. They’re actively trying to know more about this Cosmological Constant through the experiment of Large Hydron Collider (they calling it Dark Matter though).

That’s Karma. No! It’s not Dark Matter, but Karma is that missing constant that balances the equation of life. Whenever you feel stuck in life & wonder- ’why is this happening to me’; try adding Karma to that equation & watch how it balances out. We may not have built a Large Hydron Collider that can scientifically prove its existence but that doesn’t mean Law of Karma doesn’t exist.

It’s a law that was written down in 900 BCE, by an Indian sage Yajnavalkya in Brhad-aranyak Upnishad:

"And here they say that a person consists of desires, and as is his desire, so is his will; and as is his will, so is his deed; and whatever deed he does, that he will reap."

(Brhad-aranyak Upnishad, Sholka 4.4.6, translated by James Black)

When I was a kid, my grandfather explained it to me through a story from Upnishads:

Once Yajnavalkya was teaching;

"After death the eye of a man goes to the sun, the breath to the wind, speech to fire, the mind to the moon, the ear to the quarters of heaven, the body to the earth, the soul to the ether, the hair to the plants & trees, the blood & seed to the water?"

“Then what carries on? Since you talk about rebirth all the time, what’s it that remains of the individual?” asked a student.

Yajnavalkya took him aside & told him the secret- 

Your actions, they carry on with you. ‘In truth, a man becomes good by good works & evil by evil works. Our lives incarnate our characters.’

 That's it!
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