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Karma is something that all Indias, perhaps all of us hear about as we are growing up. Wheather it is “As you sow, so shall you reap” (from the Bible), or “Vishwa pradhan karma kari rakha, jo jas karhai to tas phal chakha” (from the Ramayana) or something else. To me this concept of Karma was something surreal because not often we get to correlate our actions to its consequences in our lives. Sometimes the consequences are not apparent, and if you are hindu, you are made to believe that the consequences/results (good or bad) may even come back to you in another lifetime.

Recently, I have been thinking a bit more about Karma. So here is my funda… (I don’t think its perfect, but it is a good start. Unfortunately that is all that I have right now, and it is good enough for me)

If you are doing an action, and the motivator for that action is one of the following then it is going to come back to you as negative karma. Motivator is basically your most fundamental intent for doing an action (note: to read more about motivators, see my previous post also.)

• Injury (make sure your motive is not to physically, mentally or emotionally hurt anyone. It will come back to you, sooner or later!)
• Vengeance/retribution is something that leads to Injury.
• Pride (if your motive is pride then you are basically wasting your good karma because “reputation” is something how universe will pay you back for good karma)