LAW OF KARMA - REDEFINED

" Law of Karma is the most important law, which a beginner in the field of Spiritual Science should at once understand . Unless we understand the Law of Karma, we will never generate right and proper karma . "

                                                                        -- Brahmarshi Patriji

The universe/earth is made up of animate and inanimate things. We as human beings are also part of the nature.

Now take the example of plants. What is their duty as plants? To prepare food for other lives, consume carbon diaoxide, release oxygen in the process of preparing food, providing shelter to various organisms, etc.  They cannot do otherwise due to their nature itself. They don’t discriminate between good and bad or religious and non-religious etc.. In a sense they are behaving as if their nature is non-dual. Their true nature (swabhav) is always getting reflected through their action. Similar is the case with air, water, fire, space, stones, soil, even man made things like chair, table, computers etc. All of them are continuously contributing positively in running the nature. It means everything is engaged in fulfilling the purpose of its existence. Further all these components are not bound by any rules of society as there does not exist any society in their world like us.

Every component of the nature has a special duty (Karma) assigned by the nature, which cannot be performed by any other component of the nature. Imagine the impact on the machinery called nature if any of them except humans, starts  non co-operating with it i.e. starts doing otherwise than duty assigned by the nature; in other words  stops doing its karma i.e. not acting not according to its nature(swabhav). In another words what will happen if any of the component except humans, is not present in the larger machinery called nature? The value of anything becomes known only when that thing is not present at a given point of time. 

 Now come to the miniscule (by weight and volume both) part/component of the nature known as humans by humans. In what way this component is special to the nature i.e. what is its positive contribution in running the nature like other components as described above. What duty has nature assigned to it which cannot be performed by any other component of the nature? Can anybody point out a single positive contribution of human being in running the nature?

I don’t think so. On the contrary all of our actions are retrogressive in nature. We use the power of discrimination gifted by nature for negative purpose only. We are not only damaging all other components of nature, but damaging our race in different ways which no other animal does.

How is it possible that 99.99999……% of the components have been assigned the duty (non discriminating nature) by the nature to contribute to it in positive way and this miniscule part to do all sorts of negative things?

Why did the seers/rishis/knowers have said that human’s birth is best among all lives, we take birth as humans after passing through 84 lakh yonies, the devatas(gods) are also hankering to take birth as humans (our mythologies are full of this),

etc. but for what?

What is the speciality of human life i.e. what is our duty as a human being in relation to running of the nature? There must be something because other components forming major part have special duties assigned to them individually .This duty assigned by the nature can  precisely be termed as karma of human being. If we are not aware about our duty as human being, how are we going to perform our karmas? Hence, most of us are not doing or cannot do our karma as we do not know the purpose of our existence.  In other words we are not aware of our nature (Swabhav).  

Most of our action wrongly mentioned as karma, are mind driven not nature driven. Once our true nature (swabhav) is known /realized by us , any action happening through us will  be nothing but the duty as human being only not otherwise, just like other components of the nature. Then it can be said that we are engaged in karma.

Everybody says do your duty rest will follow. But they are basically referring to the duty assigned by the society not the duty as human being which is a part of large machinery called nature.

As the duty assigned by the society is necessary to run the society smoothly and the duty assigned by the nature is also necessary to run the nature smoothly.

If the understanding of karma  would have been so simple as it is generally understood in common paralance the world as a whole would have been  a calm and peaceful place and there was no need for Lord Krishna to take human birth just to convey the massage that “do your karma and leave it to me”. Because the effect i.e. state of affairs, is the proof of our understanding.

Sathya Devo Bhava