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Quite
unexpectedly, one fact may be incessantly observed by many of us that one who
resorts to antisocial activities is prosperous and the virtuous are living a
miserable life. This fact disheartens most of the persons, who honestly and
desperately try to attain a satiable and peaceful life and very often they have
been witnessed for the diversion of their deeds from sacred to sacrilegious one.
As a matter of fact these persons present a distorted dialectical approach to
justify their misdeeds. they may cite examples that innocent people seldom get
the desired result and the wicked men flourish like anything and it is fate
which controls every act. While remonstrating the virtuous act they only express
their awareness with the significance of 'KARMA' in shaping the 'FATE'.
The philosophy
of 'KARMA' is interrelated with the soul and not the physical body. The physical
body is to be laid to rest forever at a particular time whereas the soul enjoys
a perpetual existence and numerous verified cases of recollection of incidents
of past lives are a testimony to this fact. Man releases energy in the
form of his actions, speech and ideas which become substratum for a future
event. The energy, once released has to enforce and assume the shape of 'phala'
(Result) as a consequence of of undergoing treatment according to the law of
cause and effect. Karma forces enter the ether region and consume some time
before they sprout in the form of event. The portion of immature "Karma'
which could not adduce the result during the current life of individual, tend to
surround his soul when it leaves the physical body. And at this junction, it is
guided by 'Prarabdha Karma' (Operative) to choose a suitable environment for it
to develop. This is known as rebirth.
Karma
produces results in two ways(1)Sanskaras (immediate
results), (2)Phala(remote
result) .The sanskaras (immediate results) are the reactions on individual which
leave an impression on his all-round personality. These 'Sanskaras' immediately
engenders results and keep on happening till their being counteracted or
destructed. 'Phala' (remoter result) consist of rewards for sacred acts and
punishment for evil deeds. Such rewards & punishment seldom arrive in the
current lifetime of an individual as these take long time to arrive at. 'Phala'
(remoter result) as a matter of rule dawns in later births only
except(1)when the individual is doing Karma (kriyamana) and has no future birth
to face the Karma Phala (remoter result), then he will have to witness the
results in the same life;(2)when the karma (action ) is extremely wicked or
highly sacred, in that case also the individual will have to quickly face the
results during the same birth.
As
it is well known that Soul enters a physical body and suffers or enjoys the
results according to the 'karma ' done. Karma is divided in three
categories:(1)Sanchit
(accumulated);(2)Prarabdha (operative);(3)Kriyamana (prospective)
Out of the Sanchit good deeds what one starts realizing is Prarabdha (operative
) and the karma which is being done or which would be done is "kriyamana'
(prospective). 'Sanchit"is the karma accumulated on account of the actions
(wicked or sacred) performed in a particular birth (e.g. may be previous
birth).Prarabdha '(Operative ' is a portion of Sanchit which an individual is
scheduled to suffer or enjoy in the new birth and 'Kriyamana
'(Prospective) is the one which would again be done in this new birth or being
done. It is discernible that the Kriyamana would once again accumulate to become
sanchit on this so referred new birth.
A
wicked person may lead a prosperous life as a result of "Sanchit" (Accumulated)
karma of previous birth and the Fate excuse opted by the persons diverting
their sacred deeds to sacrilegious one is nothing but 'Prarabdha'
Operative) which the person was scheduled to suffer or enjoy because of 'Sanchit
'(Accumulated)
.But once the Prarabdha is over the flourish ness or miserable ness of a person
would once again depend on the Kriyamana (Prospective) of the current birth .Long
back
Lord BUDDHA had
said "Even " an evil doer sees good as long as evil ripens not; but
when it bears fruit then he sees the evil results. Even a good person sees evil
so long as good ripens not; but when it bears fruit then he sees the good
result".
This logic can be more easily understood by the account holders of bank. As long
as there is a credit Balance Sanchit] (Accumulated) the a/c holder can enjoy it
but if he does not deposit [kriyamana] [[Prospective] money the balance would
keep on diminishing to reach NIL and then a debit balance would be shown {[Prarabdha]
[Operative] for his son if father dies } and this overdraw facility cannot
exceed beyond a certain limit. On the other hand if a person opens a small
savings a/c in a bank and keeps on making deposits then gradually he may build a
huge credit balance.
The Astrological
theory of
Own-Sign, Exalted , debilitated ,friendly sign inimical sign , Neutral sign is
nothing but an account of what balance one has maintained in each of the
accounts run by the NINE PLANETSe.g. Good deeds related to SUN and acts done on
Sundays would reflect the account status in a Sun's account which may be
Exalted (Huge deposits Good deeds) Debilitated( Overdraw & Bad
deeds).
If a
person grasps this concept of Karma and the result thereon then it would be not
so far to conclude that patience always pays and that the persons pampered in
antisocial activities will have to bear the fruits of evil and those performing
sacred acts will bear the fruits of Karma.
In
Geeta
also it is the Karma which has been stressed "karmanye vadhikaraste
maphaleshu kadachana"-Do karma and do not bother about the phala- as you
sow so shall you reap. So it is for everyone how does one desire to shape the
karma .
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