Karma and Spirituality
We live a lot of lives. We are born and reborn in many lives. Only our physical bodies change but our soul is reborn. Why are we born again and again? We are responsible for our deeds or Karma that is done in each and every life that we love. Karma is nothing but what you put in action in any circumstances that you face. We do lot of things as per our wish that we think are right but all this might not be right or correct. What we do paves the road for our future. It decides how we reach our destiny. Our destiny is as much in our hands as it is in the hands of the Almighty. It is just the way you help yourselves that the Almighty shapes your life. There may be lot of ways to reach your goal but the road or path that you choose defines your life. For example it might be destined that you would be having wealth but the path that you choose to earn this defines your actual life. A crook or smuggler might also be wealthy but so will be a hard working person. So, the crook has become wealthy as destined but with bad karma and the hard working or just person by good karma. The path that we choose and act accordingly defines our karma. Doing good things in a good way is good karma and doing bad things with greed, hatred and jealousy is bad karma. Even if we do good things with bad intention it leads to out contribution to the bad karma. We get what we sow. Lot of times we hear people saying that out last life deeds affect us in the present life. Its all about balancing the good and the bad that leads to ours being reborn in many lives. The amount of good karma done by a person determines his journey to moksha. It is said that being born a human means we are getting closer to moksha. Because only humans can really understand and differentiate the good and the bad. We can by our higher state of intelligence as being born a human differentiate between the two and act accordingly to reach moksha. Why do we need moksha? So that we are free from the cycle of rebirth and sufferings we face and become one with the almighty. As long as our bad karma does not get nullified with our good karma, the cycle will continue. So, our ancestors always taught us to be good, noble, just and give and do everything with unconditional love. Hatred, jealousy, feeling of incompetence, ego all leads to bad karma. If all this is removed from our life what is left is good karma. But leading a life of good karma is very difficult. Humans being intelligent is often put into circumstances where he has to choose between the right and the wrong and his intelligence most of the time is wrongly used due to his own ego, hatred and others experiences. So the cycle of rebirth as a general rule is unbreakable. So how can we overcome this? We see lot of enlightened people or people who have attained moksha like Buddha, Mahavir, Guru Nanak, Sai baba etc. They attained moksha but it was not easy and obviously we cannot be them. But if you see they all used the same path. The path of Spirituality. What is Spirituality? Is it singing bhajans, giving and listening to pravachans, chanting mantras, doing pujas? No definitely not. It simply means knowing ourselves and our purpose in life. All of us are doing something spiritual in one way or other to get what they want? We pray to god to achieve something. We chant mantras to aid us in something or because somebody told us to chant this in hard times. We do fasting, pujas etc but with what intention ? Our own selfish motives. To gain wealth, to pass in exams etc. We never do any thing just to thank god selflessly. This is the difference. God does not want anything from us. God only wants us to be good, have an attitude of gratitude and do things without any bad intentions. We should all do pujas and chant mantras but for thanking god and mental peace. This is exactly what spiritualism is all about. It has got nothing to do with religion or god but ourselves and our behaviour with ourselves and others in our life. Every religion teaches the same values. Have we ever thought why? Because this is what we should be doing in our daily life. We need spirituality day in and day out. By practicing this, we will be able to nullify our negative karmas. By spreading goodness and love we draw goodness and love. Most of our mental, physical and emotional problems get resolved due to this. We get into spiritualism as a last option. When things go out of our hand, we run towards these things to get destressed and for mental peace. But by then we find it's too late and things are irreversible. People get too stressed due to hectic schedules leading to various lifestyle diseases and we lose our precious peace of mind. So why not make it a part of our life right now and ensure that children practice it right from the beginning. By doing this we are gifting ourselves and our children something that will help them for life and secure their future in terms of harmony and peace.
Invest 5 minutes of your time towards this and see the difference it makes in your life.
