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If you throw a banana and slip on it, is that Karma?

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By Bivás

Cause and effect. Conservation of energy. First law of thermodynamics- total energy in an isolated system stays the same. Hindu scriptures have elaborate concepts on Karma. A tool to balance out the equation between good and evil. How does it work?

Karma works in our daily lives. You’re late for an important meeting and you don’t want to own up to it. You have a choice to tell the truth or cover up with a lie! If you give in to the negative choice of lying, you will have brought in a negative force into the real world. It’s small and maybe innocent but it now exists in your world. Any force brought into the real world multiplies. Plants, animals, bacteria, viruses, human beings…love and fear!

Fast forward to later in the day. You’re waiting at a restaurant for your spouse to join you for dinner. She is late. She calls in with an excuse! Maybe her excuse is legit but now that little thing about lying while getting late is a truth in your world. You introduced it so you know it exists. You may think she is lying to you. You start asking silly questions, she senses what you’re doing, you guys get into a fight. Silly stuff, all triggered from a little negative thing you did earlier in the morning which was totally unrelated. Payback? Starting to sound like Karma!

Our scenario is simplistic but it is interesting how this works. Freud called it psychological projection.

Sometimes negative forces are unleashed onto us by others. If we couldn’t fight it at the time then it has power over us. These unresolved forces and the choices that we bring into this world are the only ones that we can imagine being attached to a given scenario or someone else’s actions! The other thoughts won’t cross our minds in any meaningful way. Sure those may be passing thoughts but they’d be like distant cousins, we know they exist but don’t really know them.

As we make positive choices, we start to believe in the positive qualities in other people and circumstances.

Why do bad things happen to good people? We strain to find justifications, try to find solace in the fact that maybe we deserve it or maybe God has a plan, we deny the possibility that there may just be no reason at all! Nature has no sense of preference. Only balance. The answer lies within us if we can find it. Why do we ruin good things? Why do we make bad choices under good conditions?

I’ve heard spiritual seekers suggest that maybe poverty is because of Karma. Someone is missing a limb because of Karma. Wrong!  Karma is not responsible for people with disability. Karma is not responsible for people with no money or food. That is using Karma as a cop out, a shield from staring at the void trying to understand why a few have enough while others are dying on the streets. That is using Karma as a weapon to keep people in check by planting fear! Doing good out of fear is a wash. It is like buying a stock hoping the price will go up and selling it at the same time out of fear that the price will go down! If you do something, do it for the love of it, otherwise use the time to figure out how to get to a position of love before you do it.

Karma is not punishment. It is reap what you sow! It is transformation of energy. It is conservation of energy. If fear needs to come into existence, love needs to transform and disappear. Total energy of the universe stays the same. Fighting fear is not stubbing it out but figuring out how to transform it back into a positive force.

The system is balancing itself all the time. It’s doing it right now. Nature is working around us, with us and through us. As within, so without! We get to choose, like miracle workers, the kind of energy we want to transform!

So, next time you think someone did something to hurt you, take a moment to think if it could be you hurting yourself. Dig up the reason, hold it to light, look at it and just by being aware, you’ll burn Karma.

Well, time is up for tonight! I write during an hour long meetup group every Monday night called Shut up and Write. See you next week.

Thanks for staying for the chat. Be well!

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Originally from Calcutta, India, Bivás has had a successful career in the U.S. as a Software Engineer/Consultant for 13 years. He worked as a Computer Scientist on defense projects through Honeywell Aerospace. Besides engineering, he is a filmmaker and an actor, has co-produced and directed a feature film called PARANOIA and has helped finance 3 others. As an actor, he has appeared in independent features including a HBO mini-documentary and a series for Discovery. He enjoys writing, photography and music.

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