Karma Sutra: Why one suffers despite being good

Being good has its own rewards, but a person who is made up of contaminations, cannot really be expected to be that magnanimous. Sooner or later, it does seem unfair to be doing good and yet suffering and witness evil thriving. Once again, the Theory of Karma comes to our rescue.

The karmic account records every action and churns out rewards or punishment in accordance with the actions so performed. When we see the evil flourishing, we ought to know that they are only encashing on their past account of good deeds.

What they know not is that tomorrow is another day. And today’s actions are tomorrow’s reality. When the consequences of today’s action catch up with them, the grey tomorrow will stare into their faces. We can feign ignorance to the law of karma, but it does not ignore us, for better or for worse.

Likewise, in spite of unfavourable circumstances, if we continue to tread the path of good, we are sure to be rewarded. The karmic wheel may grind slowly but surely. Let us not use evil people’s life as an example for forsaking good. Let us continue to add good deeds to our individual karmic account. What others do is their equation. Let us have faith in the working of karma, it works with mechanical precision.

The moral of the stories will continue to be the “victory of good over evil” because there is a law higher than the law of the land and that is the law of karma.