Karma! The ideal balance of
performing karma is that on one hand, have limitless patience and on the other,
don't perform your karma with an eye towards the results. That is called
"Samatva” of karma.
Secondly, if you accept the
karma as a doer, the positivity or negativity also becomes yours. For example,
a fisherman kills fish to sell and feed his family. It is his work and he never
dwells on the ethics of it. Therefore, his karma is pure. He even dances and
sings when he has had a good catch because there is no thought of any guilt of
killing.
Take another example. You say
something innocently to a friend but that causes some hurt in the friend. You
are unaware until they tell you that you shouldn't have said what you did
because it was hurtful. And you now begin to feel guilty and acknowledge that
you are wrong. This then immediately becomes your karma, because you accepted
it as wrong.
So, karma is completely
intention based. Lord Krishna, therefore, asked humans to surrender all karma
to him. If" I "am not a doer (karta), where is the karma?
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
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