every culture in the world believes in a direct relationship between
actions and the consequent reactions there are ofcourse' cultural variations to
this
in india we believe in birth death
and rebirth and every time we are reborn on this earth
it contributes to the spiritual evolution
of our soul many times good things and bad things happen to us and we are not
able to explain
why this is happening people call it luck but we in Indian philosophy
we say it is your karma acting from a past birth once when I was a child I was
walking with my mother in the market
and we saw a little boy of about my age begging on the street
I was deeply moved by this and I asked my mother
mama why is he begging why is he not like me
and my mother said this poor boy must have done something terrible
last life he has bad karma working
to my innocent mind all that meant was
let me not do bad things I don't want
bad karma and ladies and gentlemen that is exactly
what karma teaches us a verse
from the bhagvad geeta comes to my mind
which basically means
do your duty without thinking of the result and let the resultant fruit
not be your attachment to your duty
but does karma mean that all the people I treated badly had it coming
they deserved it they had bad karma no ladies and gentlemen
the bhagvad geeta clearly states that you are responsible
for your own action this universe from the physical status constantly trying to
achieve a state of equilibrium
a hot mug of coffee will constantly dissipate heat to the surroundings and become room
temperature
I'm standing here in equilibrium because the weight of the force that I'm
applying on the earth
it's been countered by a Force exactly of the same magnitude
but in the opposite direction so newton's third law of motion
every action has an equal and opposite reaction
is the principal explanation to the equilibrium that the physical
world is constantly trying to achieve on the metaphysical plane
karma is the analogous to Newton's third law
you do good you get good you do bad
you get bad in fact the bhagvad geeta says that
the action and its reaction are one and the same thing only the present
and the future tense versions of them as you invest now in the present
so shall be your returns in the future unlike in physics with the action and reaction is
almost instantaneous
karma takes time to mature into its fruit so it may actually take one or
more lifetimes for karma to claim its
justice for an action done in the past an action
causes a reaction and that reaction is the action to the next reaction
when action is never in isolation it is always a chain of actions and reactions
before and after
even something as small as throwing away a bag of chips can actually
affecte the society and people and this world at large
in this bharatanatyam dance production
Newton's law of karma I have visualized
man being born amidst his past karmas
and how these karmas influence his future
his actions his thoughts his faith I have visualized
action and reaction as two different colors
and I have used the visual imagery
of Newton's third law of motion to explore
man's journey through this mystery of karma
ladies and gentlemen maya presents
Newton's law of karma
atleast tell me what you are punishing me for
I know not what i did last life
oh karma are you really teaching me a lesson?
Oh karma
the creator of equality and equilibrium
in the universe when I do wrong
you punish me what if I am the victim of
somebody else's wrongdoing
then will you now recreate a scene
where now I am the wrongdoer
because only that is fair isn't it
oh karma am i just a little pawn
in your larger game of universal
justice
oh karma you are no external force
you are
you are my own conscious you are my happiness
when I do good
you are my guilt
when I do bad and the world
and my actions in it are
nothing else but a mirror of my inner self
my thoughts my feelings
oh karma you are within me
hang
and until the day do
that i do only good
and until the day that i do my duty
without thinking of the consequence
and until the day
i do no bad I will be bound
by the guilt of my bad actions
I will be bound
by my actions
that this guilt manifests itself in
I will be bound
by you
oh karma