.: Karma – Part II

This is a follow-up post to Karma. Thinking over and reading quite a bit has made me move over from Karma to good karma.Yeah, ok !! So what about it ??

It is a lot easier to define bad karma as compared to good karma. Cheating/copying in an examination is a bad karma (or action), and I don’t think many would disagree. And so is illegally downloading movies. The definition of a good karma can sometimes lead to a counter-argument of sorts. Imagine if someday you saved the life of a rabbit from being shot dead by a hunter. Now that is good karma, because a man can survive on vegetables (or so the vegans may argue, since man is an omnivore). But imagine if you had saved the same rabbit from a tiger !! Now would that be good karma or bad? Depends on how you look at it , right ? Saving a life was good karma, but also bad karma in this situation. Snatching someone’s meal is bad karma. Now is it not an irony that what you thought of to be a good karma could also have been a bad karma.

PS : The rabbit idea was suggested by anand during one of the numerous time-killing discussions we indulge in and I have modified it to better state my point.

All right, all right !! That’s a lot of karma’s in one paragraph, what do you intend to say ?

To make a long story short; its perfectly alright if you don’t help a person, but don’t do a karma that will bring misery to the other person. Now I really don’t know whether to save the life of a rabbit from a tiger !!

Reality Check : Have I gone mad ??