The Law of Karma

Sometimes we see that some very honest and good people are suffering due to one reason or other. We can also find people who are doing all sorts of sins but seem to be enjoying life .
This makes us wonder how can this happen? How can God allow this to happen? Why is God blessing the sinners and punishing the innocent? We may even think there is no god or he does not value honesty and sincerity. But the fact is that God is there as he always was and he punishes the culprits for all their sins. Let us try to understand the principles of karma.
Let us assume you are playing a very sophisticated computer game. At the start of the game you have some powers, some lives to help you. As you proceed with the game you have to cross many hurdles and fight with enemies. In this process you lose some powers and lives. But the game also gives you chances to regain them. While playing you make some virtual friends also who remember you and help you when they are around. Now it depends on your expertise that how you play the game. You can loose minimum power or lives and reach the next level. You can even gain more power. It can also happen that you are not able to pass the first level itself.
Each of your mouse movement, each key stoke is an input to the system. The way you use them decides you loose or gain power or lives. But the result ;i.e. you passed a level or won the game comes in a single moment. If somebody doesn't look at the menu bar showing your power or lives he can not tell you are going to win or loose. But suddenly a screen flashes which tells you the result. It can also happen that you pause the game and start it later. Then the game starts at the same level with all your gains and losses remembered.
Our life also runs like this. Whatever we do will bring us some result. But the result may not come instantaneously. It may come sometime later. How late? Only the programmer,
that is god, can tell. But it is certain that the results will show up. That's why some times we get immediate results and some actions bring us result after some time. If we touch fire we will be immediately burnt. We will not catch cold the instant we enter in cold water. It will take years of studies to fetch us a degree and a job. Similarly some actions give us immediate rewards or punishment for our acts and some actions may be such that the results will show up after along time.
We may have paused the game in between and start after a gap. This is what happens in the next berth. It's just like a pause in computer game. We stop playing for some time when we die. When we start again we start from the same point. That's what happens in each birth. we start with the accumulated rewards and punishments which we could not use in last birth. But as we play along in this birth we may lead pure ,honest lives to gain rewards or we can earn punishment. When we see some good people suffering this may be because of their past sins . similarly some seemingly bad people may be enjoying life because of the good they did earlier. But the present noble acts of a good man will certainly bring him rewards on suitable time and the sinners will be punished.

Navnit