Think about it, the only thing that makes sense of one’s fate is the concept of Karma. Otherwise, why would a child die at a very young age? What’s he punished for? Or why do two people born in the same circumstances experience life very differently, where one suffers and the other does not?
You layer life with some Darwinian science, yet it doesn’t explain the why of the equation. So it is the survival of the fittest but why was the dead chosen to die in the first place? If it was only the world of the strong, why do the weak exist? Also, why do the strong not remain strong their whole life?
Then you can’t overlook those who say that everything’s written. The precept sounds as if created by people who live in denial. They hate justifying their actions. If it were so then what would be the point of our existence? If somebody else is making things happen for us, then why bother, do anything?
That drives us to the only possibility that remains – Karma. A child who is absolutely innocent suffers from a life-threatening disease, the only thing that makes sense is that he has carried a life from his past over to this world. He is being punished for the things that he barely remembers. It sounds too bizarre to be accurate but that’s the only rationality that you can unspool if you delve deep.
Our body is merely a vessel that carries our soul. In the end, our soul will move on to find another vessel, thus another life.
In the logic of Karma, there are three branches:
- Sanchita – The karma you carry from all your past lives.
- Prarabdha – This life where you suffer all the consequences from your previous karmas.
- Agami – The future karmas that you create for your soul’s future journey with your actions in this life.
When you put that reasoning you cannot question it, primarily because we can’t see into the past or the future. The morality of the assertion compels us to be good so that we create good karma for future life. Being good, that’s what it is all about something which is already expected of humanity and the logic of karma perfectly sits with it.
The most frustrating part of Karma is like grabbing tokens to be able to do something in the next life. You can’t encash your tokens in ‘this’ life. That sucks!
You were too good in your life, we will give you the best vessel to carry your soul in. This vessel will take birth in riches. Congratulations you have earned yourself a premium experience.
Or maybe you can encash them, so they say. The more you meditate the more good karmas you garner. Sometimes it takes years to get the results, sometimes weeks. Or most of the time you won’t realize. But then again, it is all up to your vantage of how you look at any particular happy event unfurling in your life. If a good thing happens to you, you can relate it to your good karma. If bad then push it down the throat of your previous vessel. You must have been a freak!
All in all, the yogic perspective pushes you to be inherently meditative so that you stay calm and relaxed most of the time. With karma in the equation, you naturally tend to be and do good. The crux of it all is that you have to do good in this life, and to improve your karma you have to meditate and do right with the world. It arrays you to be a better person, which is good not only for others but most importantly for yourself.
What you should undeniably be most grateful for is the fact that you got an extraordinary opportunity to be inside a human vessel. Our species is arguably one of this planet’s most intelligent life forms. You were fortunate enough to be chosen to live and steer this vessel. It is the greatest gift our creator can offer. What happens to us is an entirely different algorithm on which you can either choose to lose your mind over or can simply agree on something and choose to lead a beautiful life.