*KARMA
Karma will surely catch you
Keep running it is behind you
You have to answer
Accept your dues
Yes karma is very true
Karma has finally caught you
Like a chameleon
You changed your hues
See you look a mad now
Wondering you must how?
Oh! How?
Karma was walking beside you
You were blind listening to foolish—who
ruined you completely
You lived a life of taught lies
Never thought to question –why?
Karma is dragging you to hell
And you thought heaven was yours
Born a human you are too
Same laws applicable to you
Heaven for those
who bloomed like rose
Thorn did you prefer to be
Karma watches , karma sees
Where will you now flee.
©sunita grover raina 2023
11/05/23
India
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Derived from the Sanskrit word karman, meaning “act”
*Karma is a concept of Hinduism which describes a system in which beneficial effects are derived from past beneficial actions and harmful effects from past harmful actions, creating a system of actions and reactions throughout a soul’s (jivatman’s) reincarnated lives,[1] forming a cycle of rebirth. The causality is said to apply not only to the material world but also to our thoughts, words, actions, and actions that others do under our instructions.
[2]For example, if one does a good thing, something good happens or will happen to them, and the same applies if one does a bad thing. It is said in the Puranas that the lord of karma is the planet Saturn, Shani.[3]
According to Vedanta thought (which is the most influential school of Hindu theology),[4] the effects of karma are controlled by God (Isvara).[5][6]
There are three different types of karma: prarabdha, sanchita, and kriyamana or agami.[7] Prarabdha karma is experienced through the present body and is only a part of sanchita karma which is the sum of one’s past karmas, whereas agami karma is the result of current decisions and actions.[8]
The Vedanta schools (including Advaita) accept the doctrine of karma, and they hold that it does not function on its own power, instead they think that God (Isvara) is the dispenser of the fruit (phala) of karma. This idea is defended in the Brahmasutras (3.2.38).[61][62]
