What's wrong with Karma?

If we do right Karmas, we will get right results. That’s all it takes. 

As long as I keep acting dynamically in this world, why do i need to believe in the Supremacy of God at all? What’s wrong with Karma? 

In life, we constantly indulge in different types of actions. 

Whenenver an action is performed, it produces some kind of a result. 

When we experience the result, we are either happy or unhappy. 

If we are happy, we want something more. 

And if we are unhappy, we  want something other or better. 

To experience more, other or better results, we are compelled into action again, which leads to new results, which again create in us the urge for more, other or better, which again prompts us to act. 

Further, even after constantly doing actions for the last so many decades of our lives, we don’t seem to have got enough of the more, other and better that we are seeking. We still seem to be unfulfilled. What an irony indeed! 

Karma being limited by itself, can produce only limited results. Hence, no matter how much of refinement we bring into the actions we perform, they are not going to be able to fulfill us. 

Thus to live ever addicted to Karma is going to leave us exhausted, unfulfilled and limited. 

This degenerative attachment to Karma which leads to the downfall of an individual into a realm of helpless slavery to compulsive action, is called “Bondage of Karma”. 

Life thus cannot be meant only for the performance of actions and enjoyment of results. If this was the purpose of life, considering the overwhelming amount of Karma we have been constantly doing from the day we were born, by now we would all be fulfilled and liberated and completely happy. But the fact that you and i still stand unfulfilled is a proof that Karma alone cannot be the purpose of life. 

Like a silkworm gets trapped in the cocoon formed out of its own saliva, we get trapped in the cocoon of our own Karma. We may attain wealth, fame, etc through Karma. But not freedom and fulfillment. 

In fact, Karma, when performed without any recognition of the Divine, becomes a source of bondage and downfall.

But we don’t really have a choice to not do any Karma. In fact, till we are alive, we must act. What to do then? 

The Answer will be provided in the next post!

TODAY'S REFLECTION IS BASED ON VERSE 2 OF UPADESA SAAR.