Is the concept of Karma true? (Karma Series - Part 2)

KARMA - Part 2

After a good 4 years of thinking, there are some additional thoughts to add on to the question which we started asking earlier – ““Are you controlled by karma/fate OR do you have the power to change your karma/fate?”

We reached at the following mutually exclusive conclusions in our earlier post:

1.     Human beings and all other creations are puppets in the hands of a super-power – which/who is doing all these staged dramas/plays for some reason unknown to us.

OR

2.     The entire idea of karma is false.

Let us delve deeper into these thoughts in this post.

Let us first list down all the facts we know about Karma.

Firstly, we all know that the concept of Karma is born out of the fact that every single action/thought which emanates from a human being has a future effect. This future effect might either be after a period of 1 year, 10 years, 100 years, 1000 years or even longer. Depending upon the time taken for the future effect to take place, an individual might have to take multiple births to exhaust his karma.

Secondly, we know that whatever be our thoughts/deeds – good or bad, we start accumulating Karma. Good deeds accumulate good karma and bad deeds accumulate bad karma.

Therefore, to exhaust Karma (it can be surplus good Karma or even surplus bad Karma), every human being might have to take multiple births. It is basically a zero-sum game which we are all playing.

At this juncture, before we go forward, let us ask ourselves a very pertinent and significant question:

“Do we actually have multiple births?”

This question is extremely important because if we can establish the fact that there is only one lifetime/birth, then the theory of Karma falls flat.

If we for a moment accept that we have only one lifetime/birth, technically none of us can take multiple births. So logically, either we should exhaust our Karma in this lifetime itself or none of us can exhaust our Karma. If Karma can be exhausted in this lifetime itself, come what may, we need not worry about the repercussions it may cause in the future and live as we deem fit (without caring about the good or the bad deeds done). And if none of us can exhaust our Karma in a lifetime, then what is anyone even going to do with the Karma balance left at the end of your life?

In short, if we can establish the fact that there is only one lifetime/birth, then the theory of Karma cannot exist or to put it more subtly, the theory of Karma would not be of any use and would be proven false.

Let us travel a long long long time back in time to answer this most important question. After travelling billions of year back in time, we arrive at the point where according to the famous Big-Bang-Theory, the Universe expanded from Singularity.

At this point in time, there was an expansion from which lots of galaxies were born - each travelling/expanding at different speeds. To understand better, let us assume that we break a glass ball by throwing it down with tremendous force. What happens? The ball breaks into lots of pieces. Each piece would be scattered across the floor. Each piece would be a part of the big glass ball and hence contain the same material and properties as the big glass ball. In essence, the big glass ball has now divided itself into smaller glass particles with the same properties and the sum of all these smaller particles is the big glass ball. The big glass ball and the smaller glass particles are one and the same being represented in different forms.

Moving further, just as the solar system came into existence from the Milky Way galaxy, similar such systems would have come into existence from other galaxies as well. The seed for this continuous growth/expansion was there in the Singularity at the time of Big Bang. So, each galaxy would have this seed for growth. When the optimum conditions for life form (density, temperature) presented itself in each of these galaxies, life forms would have been born. Similar to the big glass ball example which we saw earlier, this singularity at the time of Big Bang is now divided into millions of stars, life forms and black holes all of which are nothing but the Singularity represented in various forms.

These life forms may be called by different names in different galaxies. They might also be in different shapes, sizes, forms, characteristics, texture and different permutations and combinations of the same. On Earth which is a part of the Milky Way galaxy, these life forms are further divided into plants, animals and human beings. Likewise in each of these galaxies, if conditions favourable for life forms presents, then the Human Being equivalent of Earth (henceforth called “HBeE”) would be there on each of these galaxies.

The HBeE in each of the galaxies have the same root – Singularity at the time of Big Bang. Hence each of these HBeE is nothing but the same Singularity represented in different forms.

Just as in Earth, each human being is known by different names, the HBeE’s in the other galaxies would also be probably known by different names. So, if there is a human named Sivaramkrishnan on Earth, there would be various equivalents of this Sivaramkrishnan on different galaxies but each of these Sivaramkrishnan’s would in effect be the same because they all are nothing but parts of the Singularity.

This leads us to an interesting premise – existence of multiple Sivaramkrishnan’s simultaneously on different galaxies.

Since each of these galaxies move at various speeds (Think of the big glass ball, when it is broken, each part moves and falls at different places. Similarly, when Singularity starts expanding, each galaxy would be moving at different speeds), the Sivaramkrishnan on each of these galaxies would be at different states of evolution. He might be a king on one galaxy, a beggar in another, a singer in yet another galaxy and so on and so forth. (Please bear in mind that king, beggar and singer are all just examples so that we understand the crux easily.) The same Sivaramkrishnan may be living in one galaxy and dead in another, unborn in one galaxy and born in another. (Just like the famous Schrodinger’s cat which is both dead and living at the same moment)

But how is all this relevant to the topic which we were discussing?

Simple. There are no multiple incarnations/births that we have. We just exist simultaneously in different galaxies.

This explains one of the most common things that almost all of us would have experienced – déjà vu. This feeling that the situation currently being experienced has already been experienced in the past is just because, in a galaxy which is moving faster than the Milky Way, the Sivaramkrishnan on that galaxy would have already gone through a similar experience and when the Sivaramkrishnan on Milky Way comes to that stage of evolution, he feels that the situation is already experienced because all the Sivaramkrishnan’s are the same. The Sivaramkrishnan on Milky Way is just doing a time travel and accessing the information available on a different galaxy.

Similarly, the fact that a person can know his past lives (using one of the various methods currently known) is nothing but the person knowingly or unknowingly (in most cases) is in effect doing a time travel to a galaxy which is slower/faster (different life/past life) and experiencing or understanding what happened to him there. In a similar fashion, most of the “real” yogis can also do a time travel and know what would happen in the future. This is what Astral travel is all about in short.

What we perceive as multiple incarnations/births is what is happening to us in another galaxy simultaneously.

This leads us to an irresistible conclusion that there is only one lifetime. Just one birth. We exist simultaneously on different galaxies. Since there is just one lifetime (or no multiple births/incarnations/lifetime), the theory of Karma cannot hold true.

Hence, we can conclude by stating that the entire idea of Karma is not true.

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Topics for further posts arising from this post:

    1.     If the idea of Karma is not true, why do most of the major religions including Hinduism give it so much importance?

     2.     How does one do a time travel in a jiffy (recall déjà vu, the realisation happens in fraction of a second, if this is the case how does one do a time travel to a distant galaxy for which even travelling by speed of light takes years altogether.)

    3.     If we do not agree with this post that the idea of Karma is not true, then what happens when an individual manages to bring his net Karma to Zero? And when does this Karma calculation take place?

a.     Does this Karma calculation happen only on death / end of lifetime?

                                                    i.     If yes, then what happens to that individual who brings his net Karma to zero?

                                                   ii.     Is he reborn, if yes, then why? OR

                                                 iii.     Does he remain dead, if yes, then what was the purpose of him taking so many births just to bring his Karma balance to zero and just die?

b.     Or if Karma calculation is a continuous process, then

                                                    i.     What happens the moment some individual hits the zero Karma mark?

                                                   ii.     Does he continue to live on, if yes, then will he again start this process of Karma accumulation? OR

                                                 iii.     Does he suddenly die, if yes, then what happens after that? Will he take another birth? If not, then what happens?

     4.     Lastly, if the idea of Karma is true, how do we determine which deeds / thoughts are good and which ones are bad? We need this information because to bring down Karma to Zero, we need to balance. A deed/thought which may be good for one person may be considered bad for another or a deed/thought which may be considered good now might be considered bad at a later point of time. Take the example of killing. If one man kills another, it is certainly considered leading to bad karma. What if we now tell that the man who does the killing is the executioner on the payroll of the Government? Is his act still leading to bad karma? Similarly, all the deeds/thought cannot be classified as good or bad. Good or bad is only a relative term. This being the case, how does one bring down his Karma balance to zero?

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For now, let us decide for ourselves what line of thought we would like to accept with regards to the subject of this post – “Is the idea of Karma not true?”

Open to comments.