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Karma and our Spiritual life - I Swami Samachittananda
Any living being, for their existence must do Karma. Any action done to get certain result is Karma. As the famous Sanskrit maxim says ‘prayojanam anuddishya mando’pi na pravartate’ that means ‘even a fool will not undertake a task if it does not serve any purpose’. We do not do anything without a purpose. All actions cannot be called Karma effectively. Karma are those actions to which you attach your doer-ship. If you are conscious of your deed, that I am doing such and such action for such and such purpose, it is Karma, otherwise it is not your Karma. For example, you killed a mosquito while you are fast asleep. You do not remember to have done this action. It doesn’t bind you. It is not added into your Karma which can bring you good or bad. There are some Karma which we do ourselves, but we do not have feeling of doing it. Who digests your food? We digest the food which we take. No one else does that for us. And you do not say that you were busy in digesting the food. The process of digestion is not in our hands. We cannot start or stop the process of digestion at our will. This action, though we do it, we do not have a doer-ship in doing so. Our hearts beat continuously, our blood flows in our veins and arteries continuously, continuous electric current is generated and makes the heart pump incessantly, growing of our hairs and nails; everything happens without our conscious 4
