On Laws of Karma
[ I edited out the starting part for it was boring ]
... I mean if you believe in laws of gravity, you should not have a difficulty in believing in the existence of law of karma. While discussing it with someone, I observed that the difficulty lies in grasping the intangible nature of the law of karma. As soon as one hears about karma, one starts to make it tangible in some sense. For instance, one imagines 'someone' keeping record of actions you commit, or 'someone' punishing you as a retribution. But why? The government of every law is always intangible, it is the observation that is tangible.
... I mean if you believe in laws of gravity, you should not have a difficulty in believing in the existence of law of karma. While discussing it with someone, I observed that the difficulty lies in grasping the intangible nature of the law of karma. As soon as one hears about karma, one starts to make it tangible in some sense. For instance, one imagines 'someone' keeping record of actions you commit, or 'someone' punishing you as a retribution. But why? The government of every law is always intangible, it is the observation that is tangible.
Think about it a little, every law is intangible, it is the observation that is tangible. You do not experience the gravity itself, but its effects. I mean, it is difficult to come to the conclusion about the existence of gravity, that something non-living exerts a force on something else. Today, you are aware about the celestial bodies and the universe, and you study gravity in elementary physics so you might take it for granted, but place yourself in 16th century and think about it. If something falls to the ground, it falls to the ground.
I mean think about the sun, assume it was created in an instant, and the moment it was created, started emitting light, you were there, standing one light year away. People will say to you, there exists a sun, but you won't believe them, because you will not see it for another year. If you cannot observe it, does not mean the sun does not exist, or the various laws light obeys.
And I know the physical and scientific laws are proven or empirically verified and such, and the karmic law is not, so I am not in any way proving its existence. But I am just saying, that the karmic law also shares the same nature as of any other scientific law. Its absurdity, if there is, does not lie in its intangible nature.
Its just that it is quite difficult to observe and explain. I, on the other hand, find it quite difficult to believe that every indivisible particle is governed by some laws, but our actions are not? I only believe in karmic law because I feel that it is less absurd than not to believe in it. That my actions are unaccountable, that I am governed by the laws of the state that change with time and location, that are inconsistent in the world, and if you take a timescale of hundred or so years, have even drastically altered. That I can do bad things and cheat and live a happy life, and die peacefully. And that we evil to exist and to say that it is unaccountable is simply absurd.
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