The Law of Karma

However, we feel that we are separate from God. We find ourselves entangled in a tiger web of illusion. This is due to the fact that when the soul come down from God, it took the mind as its companion. The is the selve of the senses. It run after sense pleasures and worldly objects. Whatever the mind does, the soul has to suffer the consequences because the soul and the mind are knotted together. Sages and seers have called this world a ‘field of actions’. Muhammad Sahib has called it the field where you sow the future: “This world is a field cultivated for the hereafter.” Goswami Tulsidas says in his Ramayan that the law of karma reign supreme in the world; that whatever one does, one must eat fruits. In the New Testament it is said: ”Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.” Similarly, Guru Nanak says :

                                                                Do not blam anybody;

                                                                Our own deeds are responsible

                                                                For whatever happens.

                                                                As I did, so do I fare;

                                                                Why then blame others for it?

                Guru Arjun call the world a “field of karma.” Christ refers to the law of this world in similar terms: “Of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of the bramble bush gather they grapes.”

                This world is the vast field of actions and reactions. Cause and effect are truly its warp and weft. Whatever deeds we do in this world, good or bad, we must bear their consquences. If we sow pepper seeds, we shall harvest peppers; we can never harvest apples. Nor can we sow thistles and expect to gather roses. When we sow mangoes, we can enjoy the fruit of mangoes. Whether we perfrom good deeds or bad ones, we have to tread the eternal wheel of births and deaths in order to reap their fruit. God deeds may make us kings and rulers. They may give ussway over vast dominions. They may promote us from ‘C’ class to ‘A’ class prisoners in the vast prison-house of this world. They may raise us from huts to palaces. They may free us from us iron fetters and replace them with gold ones. Theymay even entitle us to go to heavens and paradises. But they also are within the cycle of death and rebirth, so after exhausting our good karma, we must return again to the physical or material world. On the other hand, if we do bad deeds, we must ofcourse go to the regions called hell, and the cycle of death and rebirth is ever ready to imprison us again. Soami Ji says : “ Whatever actions you do, you must suffer their consequences.” Sahjo Bai says :

                                                                Worm or insect, god, imp or devil,

                                                                Beast or bird or man,

                                                                Or any of the vast and varied forms

                                                                That have their home in the sea;

All these are born because of karma,

All these are born because of karma,

All these of countless forms and hues.