Law of Karma

SR No.: 007009
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Nirmala Jha
Publisher: Capital Pubishing House Delhi
Publication Year: 1985
Total Pages: 168
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 9 MB

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Law of Karma
Law of Karma does not connect the present with the past alone. It is a universal law. Nothing in the world can escape from its governing power, Human being is the product of an energy, which is in us and we are made of it. As the cause is, so is the effect.
The Law of Karma does not only mean that our good actions bring good results and evil brings evil. It is not an adequate key to our ethical hedonistic rule that moral good brings happiness and moral evil brings sorrow and misfortune. It is equally true both for physical and mental actions. As fire burns the hands, so the good action rewards and bad action punishes. As Karma is the universal truth of being, it must be equally true of the mental and moral worlds of our actions also. "The moral energy of our action determines similarly the nature and effect of the moral consequence, but subject, though to this element the rigid moralists do not give sufficient consideration, to the same incidence of past, present and future surrounding circumstances. That this is true of the physical energy, needs no saying, nor any demonstration."
According to Sri Aurobindo, “It is mainly his actions that construct his fate; they are the chief or most forceful determinants of his being and his future. This is the whole Law of Karma."
The Law of Karma is not the mechanistic law of cause and effect. There is difference between the two. The mechanical theory of cause and effect works according to the law of its structure and fixed principle. But there is no question of fixed rule with regard to the law of Karma. Again, we cannot demand a moral equality or a mind or a supraphysical mediator in the field of causation whereas in the field of the Law of Karma there is the role of the agent who distributes the fruit of action. In an action there is a thing done and a doer and an active consequence. These three factors are the joints or locks of the law of Karma. "The idea of the Law of the world as primarily a dispenser of rewards and punishments is cognate to the idea of the supreme being as a judge, father and school