Why we believe in karma ?

1. Why We Believe in Karma ?
Dr.T.V.Rao MD
We all live in world with strengths and weakness,
every body wishes to be successful and happy. No sane
man wishes unhappiness in life. However life continues to
be struggle many theories have proved that our destiny is
beyond our control. When I was not well qualified, I aspired
to be better educated, when I was finding difficult to make
the ends meet and though of having more money. At every
stage of life there is struggle to live. So many people are
anxious to know about their success and failures from
fortune-tellers and I believe and it is true the fortune-tellers
benefit out of our curiosity and anxieties. If we analyse our
past, each life is another struggle with the same basic
forces and problems as the last or the next. The actual
theme changes little. In each lifetime we face the same
basic circumstances and problems as the last, the same
wins and the same losses, but woven into a slightly
different fabric. We even meet the same people over and
over again -- those closest to us, the ones we have loved
so many times and who many times come back to us, as
we do to them. Our karma inches forward slowly like a
great river, gathering like little rafts, and new good and new
bad seeds from each life. We reap what we have sown.
Our primary aim, as spiritual people, should always be to
ensure that we create and garner new good seeds and to
deal with, work through and destroy bad seeds. It will
repeatedly have come before your minds that in the law of
karma, man experiences something which is so organized
that at every moment of our life we can look upon what we
have gone through, upon what we have done, thought and
felt in the incarnations preceding our own, and we shall

2. always find that our momentary human inner and outer fate
may be understood in the light of a ‘Life-account,’ in which
on the side we set down all the clever, reasonable and wise
experiences, and on the other all that is unreasonable,
wicked or ugly. On one side or the other there will be
excess, which signifies at any moment of life the destiny of
that moment. "Karma" literally means "deed" or "act", and
more broadly names the universal principle of cause and
effect, action and reaction,which Hindus believe governs all
consciousness.Karma is not fate, for we act with what can
be described as a conditioned free will creating our own
destinies. According to the Vedas, if we sow goodness, we
will reap goodness; if we sow evil, we will reap evil. Karma
refers to the totality of our actions and their concomitant
reactions in this and previous lives, all of which determine
our future. The conquest of karma lies in intelligent action
and dispassionate reaction. Not all karmas rebound
immediately. Some accumulate and return unexpectedly in
this or other lifetimes.Human beings are said to produce
karma in many ways: And notwithstanding all this apparent
and impossible confusion, there still remains a systematic
Purpose and Plan underlying it all, and leading to some planned
Destiny but a destiny which, as far as man is concerned,
disappears into the infinite, and for ever keeps on disappearing
not withstanding the ever-expanding vision and the detection of
constantly widening horizons. Although many of these thoughts
may appear to be paradoxical, the fact remains that man retains a
considerable degree of free will and the capacity to guide to a
large extent the course of his own life and destiny; he has even
been granted the power of neutralizing or wiping out certain
bad karma accrued in the past, by initiating the correct
redemptive action in the present life. One of the most effective
means of realizing this is by leading a life of sacrifice and of
dedicated and loving service of the fellow man 'What man has

3. made he can unmake'. Man was never intended to be the helpless
victim of circumstance for life after life the soul returns, utilizing
a physical instrument to gain experience, and training this tool to
become the intelligent arbiter of its own fate and a conscious
exponent of the indwelling divinity. So the no two individuals
have same fortunes and destinies in spite of same efforts, being
the children of the same parents. Science still cannot answer the
meaning of destiny. I feel making our lives purposeful can
change our destiny?
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