KARMA MANAGEMENT

Abstract

Karma is Self-Generated: A man’s actions create his future karmas to be experienced, why wait seven more births to achieve spiritual maturity when you could achieve it in existing birth? That is the idea behind writing paper on karma management. When we begin to apply principles of management in managing karma, our individual karma is intensified. Quite often our actions are based upon an emotional reaction to what someone has done or said to us. The consequences of such actions are often not clearly and carefully thought about. For example, someone insults you, so you insult them back. If you did reflect, you would see that the consequence of harming someone else with your words in the present is for you to be harmed again in the future by someone else’s words. This behaviour creates an endless cycle of being harmed and harming others, which is only stopped by considering the consequences before acting and not harming back. Mahatma Gandhi once said, “An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.” So, too, instinctive retaliation ultimately makes the whole world angry. The principle of considering the karmic consequences pertains equally to positive actions. The wisest approach is to not simply react to things that happen to us, but to take time to consider the karmic repercussions of all actions before we take them. The habit of considering the consequences before acting can be developed at an early age when parents and teachers utilize positive discipline methods to help children face the natural and logical consequences of their actions. Each mark is a reward or a stumbling block. Learn to look at the step you have made and the step you have not made yet. This brings you close to Me.” Gurudeva elucidates our fourth principle: “It is our reaction to karmas through lack of understanding that creates most karmas we shall experience at a future time.” Tirukural: “All suffering recoils on the wrongdoer himself. Paper is an attempt for managing your own karma by utilizing the correct understanding of karma to refine your actions and reactions in life.