Vedic Theory of Karm Fal
As you sow, so shall you reap. That is the Vedic Theory of Karm Fal. All our happiness and miseries are the consequences of our actions. Our good action earns us happiness and a bad action earns miseries. That is done under God’s justice system. There is no escape from the results of our actions. No Jyotishi, no pandit, no prayer and no bribe can save you from the good or bad effects of your good or bad deeds. God is Omnipresent and Omniscient. So he knows exactly what we do. He is just and does only justice. God knows even what we have in our minds because he is present in our minds too.
A good deed is defined as the one that gives happiness to someone else and a bad deed is the one that gives miseries to others. So to be happy yourself you have to give happiness to others. That is the only way and there is no other way to be happy. So remain always prepared and make special efforts to give happiness to others.
Many people blame their luck for any problem or trouble as if luck is something imposed by God on them. But that is not true. Luck is your earnings. If you are in pain it means you did some bad deed in the past and now you are bearing its fruit. Similarly when you are happy it means you did something good in the past and now you are enjoying its fruit. God keeps account of all our actions. Some of our actions are immediately rewarded and others are returned to us at an appropriate later date. This later date stuff is called luck by us. You worked at your work place for a week. At the end of the week you got paid wages for your work. You put those wages in the bank. Those wages lying in the bank are your luck. You earned that luck. You may use it immediately or later depending upon your need and will.
Some people blame time for any mis-happening. They say that time was bad that is why it so happened. If that is true then no person should be blamed for any crime. Only time should be blamed. But this is not the case. Time is known because of the incident and the incident is not known because of the time. Year 1947 in India is known for the independence of the country. The independence of India is not known because of the year 1947.
Some of our actions of this life are rewarded in this very life and others are carried to be rewarded in later lives. Similarly, some actions of our previous lives are rewarded in this life. All depends upon the opportunities. According to the Vedas this life is not the only life we get. There is life after every death. Soul is immortal. It never dies, nor it is ever born. At death God moves it from one body to the other.
Good and bad deeds do not cancel each other. If you do a bad deed and a good deed of the same intensity, it is not that you get no punishment or reward for these deeds. There are separate accounts for good and bad deeds. You have to bear the consequences of both good and bad deeds separately. Pain because of bad deed and pleasure because of good deed may come at the same time.
Your next birth is dependent on the total sum of your actions done and knowledge attained while in a human life. If your good deeds are more than the bad deeds your next birth will be that of a human being. If your bad deeds are more than the good ones your next birth will be that of an animal, a bird or an insect depending on the deeds. It is not true that you get a human life only after going through all eighty four lakh different species. There are many examples when a child tells about his/her previous human life. It means he/she was a human being in the previous life also.
Usually the government or the society gives you reward or punishment for your good or bad deeds as the case may be. If they fail to do that then God does that. No one can escape from the consequences of one’s actions.
As parents caution their children from bad deeds, similarly God cautions human beings from wrong actions. When you are going to do something wrong you get feelings of fear, doubt and shame. These feelings are given by God. When you do something good the feelings of happiness, encouragement and fearlessness also come from God.
A man is involved in a bad deed because of attachment, jealousy or greed. Secondly, he thinks he can manage an escape from its consequences by way of Pooja or donations etc. which is not true.
If we do some good or bad deed with our body then our body has to bear its consequences. If we do that with our mind then the mind gets the result. Similar is the case with speech.
A question arises – if we have to bear the consequences of our actions then why we should pray to God. The answer is that the purpose of prayer is not asking or requesting for pardon. As a matter of fact God does not pardon anybody. If He pardons people for their crimes then there will be no justice. Moreover, the crime graph will shoot up to bring much more miseries all over. The purpose of prayer is to remember that there is a super power God who does punish or reward us exactly according to our deeds. By knowing that, we can avoid doing bad deeds. Secondly, we recite God’s qualities like truthfulness, kindness, justice etc. so that we could acquire those qualities in our lives.
Manusmriti (11-230) – One thing we can do relating to our bad deeds is to think about their consequences and not to do such deeds again. That is called repentance. Repenting does not save us from the consequences of our past bad deeds. It helps train us not to repeat such deeds in future.
Heaven and hell are not particular places. One who is in a stale of extreme happiness is said to be in heaven and the one who is in a state of extreme miseries is said to be in hell. All depends upon one’s actions.
Chankya (13 – 14) – As a calf goes only to his mother even if she is among thousands of other cows, similarly the result of an action goes only to the person who does the action.
Valmiki Ramayan (Aranya Kand 35-17, 18,19,20) – After Sita was abducted, upset because of separation from her Shri Ram said to Laxman, “I feel that there is no body as big a sinner as I am on the whole earth because the pains are tearing my mind and heart continuously one after the other. I have definitely committed many crimes in my previous life. I am bearing the fruits of those crimes now. I lost the kingship, my father died and I am separated from my people. By remembering these incidents I feel pain in my heart. I had forgotten these troubles after coming to this pleasing forest. But, all those pains have come up again after Sita’s separation as extinguished fire comes up again by putting wood on it”.
How to avoid bad deeds – you can avoid doing bad deeds by attaching yourself with God. When you know that God is always with you, He knows all that you do and that He rewards or punishes as the case may be, you avoid doing wrong deeds.
Atharva Veda (4-16-2) – Whether a person is staying or walking, whether he is robbing someone, whether he is planning a conspiracy against someone, whether two people are discussing something secretly in a recluse place, Omnipresent and Omniscient God being present there knows all that.
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