I have always wondered about this word used often at many places whenever things become ambiguous or beyond explanation. Karma – As Wikipedia says, is the Indian concept of action and deed, which causes the entire cycle of cause and effect. I have heard many a time that my Karma in this birth will affect my next birth. If I do good, I will be born as a happy man. If I do bad, I might be born as a mosquito which will be killed by the splash of the hand, when it tries to have its’ daily bread or blood. My country thinks a lot around the topic of rebirths and karma. Yes, and that’s why we don’t have any kind of crime in our country (ha ha). Probably to the girl who gets raped in Delhi, the propagators of Karma theory would come and say that her Karma in her previous birth was not upto the mark and that’s why she got raped. Yeah, that does sound like an awesome explanation.
I am sure that most of the folks(apart from the weirdos who come up and say that they know and feel what they were in their previous births) do not even know whether they had a world before they were born. And as far I know, for us, we exist only from the time we have consciousness. And having said that it doesn’t make any sense to think about whether we had a previous birth or will have a re-birth, because it just would be out of our consciousness(even if such a crappy theory of multiple births is true). To the person in Africa, who is hungry and for whom, the meaning of desire is beyond his lexicon, does a theory like Karma make any sense? What should I say about all the horrible things which are happening in this world? That God just wants to have a fun? Or is it that the Karma in the previous birth was all wrong? Whoever proclaims that those who do right will be gifted and who does bad will be screwed – what about Dawood Ibrahim. He does enjoy an awesome life. Why the hell should I care about life after death(if there is any) if I my consciousness cease to exist when I die? I am not saying that one should do bad things. I am just trying to say that our theories to explain the unexplained do not make any sense. The way we have defined God is as per our knowledge about Human beings. God appears to me (the way we have defined) like an Adolf Hitler or a third class politician. The one who would punish us,if we don’t admire the dictator. We spend thousands of rupees for the God. What for? If we praise and worship the God he will come and do good things for us? And if we don’t, he would curse us? Then what’s the difference between him and Adolf Hitler?
So for all those people who enjoy the benefits even after doing the so called bad deeds, we justify by saying that, they would get punished in Hell. Who cares. If they are not punished when their consciousness exists, then who cares? It’s as good as putting a prisoner in Jail, after he is in a Coma. Being in a hospital or a jail is the same to him. Because he even doesn’t realize what’s happening around.
We try to justify each of these things by these theories which add no value to human life. To the hungry African, to the raped girl, such theories don’t add any value. Because some of them have no idea about what hope means or what desire means. Such is their life. It’s all random. The way we have defined God is completely wrong. The right definition, if someone can come up with, will be surely beyond human reason. Randomness is the only truth in life. Smarties escape through. Those who are not smart just rot. In such a world, where is the space for right and wrong? I guess it’s only in the hearts of people, who hope that there is a world that is just. For people like me, only love makes sense and I hope people understand this, and live in such a way for a better world.
