Karma (ePub)

Anyone who makes a dedicated effort to know this creation finds nothing but laws. The scientist and the spiritualist both discover them in their own special way. They are both walking towards the creator but from two totally different directions. When they set out on their quests, they appear to be antagonists but when they reach their destination they find themselves standing at the same spot. After a certain point, the scientist turns spiritual and the spiritualist turns scientific. The scientist reaches the conclusion that he is only discovering laws; the source that they are all emanating from remains unknown. The spiritualist reaches the conclusion that in every moment, the whole cosmos is unfolding and it is all unfolding lawfully.

Without its laws, it would not have been possible for the existence to even last a single minute and if any of these laws was bent by even one millionth of a precision, the whole cosmos would collapse. Everything is related to everything else; nothing exists in isolation. The harmony of the cosmos is beyond our imagination and there is nothing that can disrupt it. The greatest of destructions and upheavals are nothing but the creation restoring itself to a balance. The law of Karma happens to be just one of these laws and we need to understand its participation in the dance called life. We ought to look at it the way a scientist looks at the law of gravitation. Our approach has to be purely scientific, purely objective. Our observations must not suffer from a bias. If Newton had thrown a hundred apples towards the sky and one of them did not fall back to the ground, he would not have called gravitation a law. The utility and efficiency of a law lies in its being immune to circumstances. It should apply itself each and every time, without fail. Even expeditions that are centered on going away from the earth, cannot succeed without the force that pulls them towards the earth. They rely on the gravitational pull in carrying out their experiments. And that is the beauty of a law - its reliability. If you have suffered according to the law of Karma, then you can also attain salvation by respecting the same law and using it to your advantage. We walk and run by using the law of gravitation but if we stumble over something, we cannot blame the law for that. If we respect a law, it is our friend; if we try to violate it, it is our enemy. The law has nothing to gain or lose from the results we produce with the choice that we make. It exists beyond all this.