KARMA

Whatever you do shall be returned to you. As a defining principle of my faith, karma is pretty powerful and equally scary. That it can be carried over just makes it more so.

I recently figured out that I think without any doubt, the most potent weapon used by Karma to balance the scales is love. It’s an instrument of torture unlike any other cause we inflict it on ourselves and suffer willingly.

A torturer may at some point take pity and show mercy, he may take a break from physical exhaustion or just might get plain bored of the whole exercise. But when one goes to work on himself, he is unmerciful, untiring and relentless. One believes that he is justified and at most times he is. For someone with a purpose, love is the most lethal combination, like a deranged surgeon with a scalpel that will never dull.

To feel love and not have it even acknowledged, let alone returned is sheer madness. It can trap you in your head and keep you there, always alert never to loose consciousness. It will show you glorious visions of peace and happiness, let them soak into you and then rip them out the next instant. It is a pain beyond comparison. It eats at you from the inside, chokes the very breath out of you and leaves you a hollow empty shell of who you once were. At the end, the cycle just starts over. The beauty of this method is that the victim rarely realises he is his own tormentor. Trapped in his own visions, he becomes oblivious to all the truth around him and locks himself within this dark chamber of horrors. He begins to believe that pain is who is, that suffering is his life.

Some escape their confinement, an achievement in itself. But that leaves a balance, to be repaid later in life with full interest that builds up exponentially. Once the debt of karma is paid however, the clouds suddenly part and sunshine pours in. You emerge from your prison bruised, battered and sometimes completely broken in every which way but alive and with full knowledge of the sum of all your experiences in the darkness. Fate and Destiny are beyond our control but they are neither cruel nor do they ever mean you harm. Karma on the other hand is kind of sneaky. For what it makes you do to yourself, it gives back a gift like none other   – SELF DISCOVERY

Only when you put yourself through unimaginable hurt do you realise how much you can endure. And trust me, no one can inflict more pain on you than you yourself. You know all your weaknesses, in mind and body. Only you can pry into and scratch at those tiniest of cracks in a way that causes maximum pain, only you have the ability to break your spirit, to wound the soul.

For those that persevere and survive the ordeal, they are granted a clean slate, but above all - an iron will. A will forged in the heat of pain and suffering and tempered by the knowledge of self. The strength to take on all that comes and do right by your hearts desires.

Personally I believe that death is the greatest leveller. So everyone comes in and goes out free. In life Karma chooses the most appropriate punishment for all your transgressions. The common belief is if you steal, you will be stolen from, if you break you will be broken, if you are selfish people will be selfish with you, if you break someone’s heart your hear will be broken, If all you do is want you shall NEVER receive. While that may be true, every once in a while someone’s pile of offences becomes too high. That is when Karma waltzes in with the ultimate atonement for every sin – Love. With a few leisurely flicks of its broom, karma cleans out everything and gives you the chance to come out the other side a better person, provided you are willing to suffer the price.