Karma: What goes around always comes around

There is a famous law in physics that says that the total amount of energy in the universe is constant. Energy can neither be created nor destroyed. There are many such universal laws in nature that apply to science as well as philosophy. Every individual can also be considered as a miniature universe with a constant quantum of energy. There is a simple rule in life that seems to clinch the real essence for all of us. The quantum of positive or negative energy that we give away is equal to what we receive over a lifetime.

If I were to help a person who doesn’t reciprocate the gesture, I shall receive it from someone else, at a different point of time, when I am in need. The positive energy that I have passed on to someone will come back to me, irrespective of whether or not I have given it to that person helping me. Is it not pointless then to worry about why the person I helped has not helped me in my hour of need? If we all start believing in this simple theory of Karma, which even the Gita taught us, it basically amounts to this: Do your bit and don’t bother about the outcome, for that is taken care of by nature itself. This is the very truth that we forget when we commit a bad deed. The negative energy that I sent out shall find its way back and haunt me.

Once we start practising this, suddenly that plotting colleague, that conspiring cousin and that annoying neighbour, all seem so insignificant, for their negative thoughts will not affect us unless negative energy is sent out from our bodies. This unique insurance or resistance, the key to which lies solely in our mind, makes us a superpower. The day we realise this, we all cease to remain atma, and draw our connect with the parmatma.