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| KARMA OR ACTION |
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The term Karma literally means
action or doing. Any kind of intentional action whether
mental, verbal, or physical, is regarded as Karma. It
covers all that is included in the phrase "thought,
word and deed". Generally speaking, all good and
bad action constitutes Karma. In its ultimate sense Karma
means all moral and immoral volition. Involuntary, unintentional
or unconscious actions, though technically deeds, do not
constitute Karma, because volition, the most important
factor in determining Karma, is absent |
| THEORY OF KARMA |
In
the society you have seen that some students do
very well in class even when they don’t
study, while others struggle to maintain their
good grades in spite of studying very hard. In
the same way, you might have heard that for some
people the money come easily, while others cannot
even find a job. You might have also heard that
some people stay sick all the time, while others
never get sick. You might have heard someone lives
over hundred years, while someone dies as a young
child. Everybody is looking for an answer to these
strange disparity. Some may say it is the God’s
will, others may say it is his luck, and so on.
The Indian Vedas says every thing happens due
to the result of our past doings. You reap what
you saw and no God or someone else can make this
happen or change. If you want to change, you yourself
need to roast the seed of your karma.
We and only we are the reason for our suffering
or happiness. This can be explained by the theory
of Karma. Therefore, it is very important that
we understand this process very clearly. It also
explains what karmas are, why and what role karmas
play in our life (with soul), and how do we accumulate
different kinds of karmas as well as how we get
rid of them.
If you sit back and think, then you will realize
that you are doing something all the time. Sometimes
you might be talking or listening if you are not
doing anything physically or you might be thinking.
So you are always busy doing something. This is
our nature. These activities may involve harm
to others or help to others. We do not realize
that everything we do brings karmas to our souls.
When these karmas are mature that is when they
are ready to depart form the soul that process
results into happiness or suffering in our lives.
This is how the karmas are responsible for our
happiness or suffering.
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| Severity of Karma |
The nature and the quantity of the bondage of the karmas
depend on the vigor of activities while the duration and
the intensity of the bondage of the karmas depend on the
intensity of the desires behind those activities.
Our activities are :
1. Physical
2. Verbal
3. Mental |
| We further do these activities
in three different ways |
| •We do the
activities ourselves |
| •We ask someone else to
do for us |
| •We encourage
someone else to . carry on these activities |
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