How to change your Karmic destiny

People worry a lot not only about their present happiness but also future happiness. They invest in various insurance policies to ensure theirs as well as their close relative’s future secure. But remember these insurance policies are limited only to safety of the present worldly life.  But all religions holy books more or less agree that man has to reap the fruits of his Karma even after death. Hence, insurance policies are a guarantee to this life only, not after life. According to the ancient thoughts man has to go on suffering the fruits of his Karma for many-many births. If we want our present and future lives to be happy ones, we must pay attention to our present Karma in action because based on this only we will be either rewarded or punished. That is why great men and saints have advised mankind to follow the path to goodness, whatever man does, he reaps accordingly in the present and the future.

Remember, we are all tied down by own Karma. Some people think that they can hide their misdeeds and nobody would know anything about them. But such a thought is absolute foolishness because nothing can be hidden from the Omnipresent God. Secondly, no one else might know about the misdeed, but what about the doer himself? How will he hide it from himself? We can not avoid the punishment by any means because this is the law of divinity that man has to reap the fruits of his action.

Some people indulge in thefts, violence, misbehaviors, corruption etc for immediate benefits. They usurp others’ properties and rights also. But this way no one can be happy neither in this world nor in the other world. It may be possible that sometimes it appears that an evil-doer is enjoying life surrounded by happiness and prosperity but if we look deeper into the person’s life, we will find that he is sitting on a volcano of pain and sufferings keeping him disturbed and restless all the time. This pain can be well understood by the one who himself faces it.

One cannot guess easily the anxiety of the one who acquires wealth through thefts, black-marketing, deception etc. But if one peeps into the mind of such a person, one would know that inspite of acquiring so much of wealth, he is unhappy. A hard working labor feeding on just dry bread is much happier than him. I am not talking about rewards and punishment through births purposely here because in this present day changing world, there is a tendency to reject such principles as orthodox out dated thinking. But remember, the thoughts and principles advocated by our ancient great thinkers in their ancient books were true and eternal then also and they are true and eternal today also. What is required is to adopt them according to the present context judiciously.

Hence, if man adopts to cleanse past misdeeds through penance, after having understood the concept of Karma and its effects, then his present life will surely be a happy one and the future a bright one. He will be able to provide a happy environment to his relatives and countrymen and gain for himself a happy environment through births and rebirths. So, we must engage ourselves in the welfare of mankind as God is omnipresent and he sees everything everywhere.

All reap the fruits of their own Karma. It is foolish to blame others for our own misfortunes. The wise thing is to be alert about our Karma. We should not do anything which pains others. As much as we can, we should give happiness and extend co-operation to others. Our future will be redeemed with the interest of our doing good to others.

We can do welfare to ourselves and the society by helping the needy and bringing happiness to others. We should always do good to others as per our capacity and desire. Whether one’s capacity is to feed an ant or an elephant doesn’t matter. What matters is doing welfare to others.

Extend a helping hand to people facing adversities freely. This way you help not others but yourselves, this should be your attitude. This way the seed of pride will not grow within you because a good deed done with pride is such a shackle which does not break easily.   

Hence we must do good to others devoid of all self pride. We should think that by doing so we are not doing a favor to others, but to ourselves and we must feel obliged to them who have given us the great opportunity to do good. Dedicate all your karma to god so that you can free yourself from the cycle of Karma easily and your future too becomes truly bright.

Whatever we are getting today are the fruits of our Karma. If we have done something good, we receive good results and if we have done something bad, we shall surely receive bad results. When we make chapatties, if we are not careful about the right method, then the chapatti will remain uncooked or will get burnt. Such a chapatti is a result of our carelessness and we will have to suffer from stomach ailment if we eat them. Not only is this, to make a chapatti the right proportion of wheat flour and water is also important. But whatever carelessness we display in the making of it, we will have to suffer its result surely. And if we make it carefully, it is us only who will taste a well-made chapatti.