Karma

Namaste,

A small story, which beautifully illustrates that what you sow, you reap.

Once upon a time, a minor Businessman from a small village used to sell butter in the nearby town.

A big shop owner in the town was his regular customer.

The villager used to deliver every month the shop owner the required butter in 1 kg blocks and in turn he used to get grocery items like sugar, pulses etc. from the big shop owner.

Once the shop owner decided to weigh the butter and to his surprise, every block of butter weighed 900 gms. instead of 1kg.

Next month when the villager came to deliver butter, the angry shop owner told him how he was cheated and told to leave the shop.

To this, the villager replied to him courteously, Sir, I am a very poor villager. I do not have enough money to even buy the required weights for weighing the butter. I usually put the 1kg sugar you give me on one side of weighing scale and weigh butter on another side.

While there are many ways of looking at such stories, one perspective that stands out is karmic. Was the man’s honest act his karma? Have you ever thought of your own life in this light? Ever contemplated your actions keeping the consequences in mind? In this sense, has it occurred to you that your present could have been shaped by your past choices and actions?

Each experience you reap in your life is something you have created through your actions in the past. The seeds of actions, thoughts and being-ness that you planted last year, last month and last week are what will come back to you in your life. If you sow focussed action, gratitude, compassion for self- and others, honouring your body and health, you will reap love, gratitude, happiness and wellness.

“Every moment of your life, you perform action – physically, mentally, emotionally and energy-wise. Each action creates a certain memory. That is Karma”.