Karma is an interesting word. It actually and literally means action. But this action
can be a thought or a word or a deed. That is the difference between action and
Karma.
A thought takes place in your mind (it is different from your brain. Brain is
physical, consists of tissues, chemical, biological matter).Seen or taken away from
the body it can not do anything. It becomes dead matter.
An action in the form of a word has its origins in your thought. Without a thought
behind it no word can come. For uttering a word, you just need a physical
instrument and that is the tongue. It cannot do anything by itself.
An action in the form of a deed is similar. It can be performed physically by your
limbs or other organs, but there has to be a process of thought behind it.
We, humans, have a habit of thinking that we have different options and many
choices to select from in life at various points of time. Actually this is a wrong
notion and is a misconcept. In actual fact, we have no choices at all. The path that
we have to ultimately follow and take take had already been predetermined, by
the forces of our destiny, our fate. We do not have options to change it. For
example what choice, did you have, in choosing your parents, the place you were
born and what colour your eyes were going to have. All these things happened in
the way they did, because they were determined by the forces and energies that
generated your creation and your life.
Recent scientific discoveries has raised a concept that solar winds cause
variations in earth's geo magnetic field. These solar winds are due into
interplanetary attractions and forces. At the time of birth of the human
fetus, possibilities exist, that its characteristics are determined by those variations
in geomagnetic field (because human beings live on the earth's surface).The
theory that planetary positions at the time of your fetus's birth therefore seems to
hold good.
The cosmic vibrations and waves generated by your thought processes and the
indefinable energy behind it gets transposed to the outer world and transcends
the entire universe. These then generates the forces required to raise
interplanetary forces that affect your life.
The predetermination of one's destiny also takes place, somewhere in very
depths of your internal core. The distance inside you from the external surface of
your eyes or the tip of your nose to the depths of your mind can be very
immense.
Our mental processes of thought, which leads to perform various
actions in life (that is our Karma), if they are correctly tuned to receive signals
from the sources deep within the various layers of our mind, then we take the
right path when we reach the cross roads of life. That means if we do the right
Karma, we shall reap the right results. That every action has an equal and
opposite reaction, is true not only in the physical world, but also in the world of our
mental processes, in our thought processes. For just a minute, let us assume
there is a soul in us and the real us are not really our physical bodies. Our bodies
are after all made up of chemicals ("Man; Thou art the earth" says the
Bible).
However the real essence of life, the one entity giving life to man is the soul. The
theory of Karma stipulates that every karma (a thought, word or deed) has to
produce a reaction from which the initiator of the karma can not and will not
escape. So the karmas whose results, which we have not yet undergone will take
us i.e. our souls, to another birth and life, where the results of our previous birth's
karmas will catch up with us. And that theory of this process goes on and on and
leads us to take birth, again and again, in this and various other lives, in this
country, with this pair or another pair of eyes, different bodies etc.We can neither
control it or have any choices about it unless we perform right Karma. The Law of
Nature is therefore intrinsically and unavoidably tied up with the Theory of
Karma.
