What is Karma

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AUM SAI RAM

 

What is Karma and what is not Karma? Where do we draw the line?

 

On 9th March 2007, at Prasanti Nilayam, Our Sweet Sai Mother speaks to the final year students of the Anantapur women's campus of the Sri Sathya Sai University. He addresses the students, cautioning them to be very careful in their behaviour. He tells them to be mindful of both their (future) husbands and their mothers in law otherwise they would come to grief.

 

Unfortunately for some of the daughters of Sai Mother, though they assume the best behaviour and they take heed of all the needs of the husband and the mother in law, they have a life of misery and grief. Past Karma, may be.

 

After the torrential rains brought by cyclonic weather in Mauritius, many took refuge in the community centre. There Sai Seva dals met a woman with two children. Her one room house is flooded and she has nowhere else to go. Her husband? - She is not married yet. Can we now place this on the shoulder of her Karma, past or present? Or is it her reckless conduct which is causing her the grief? Do children come first or marriage?

 

Another woman's house is flooded too. She complains that there is no water proofing on the ceiling. Before the bad weather, she had asked her husband to do the needful to the roof but he chose instead to replace their small TV set with a larger screen. Now, not only the house is flooded to the waist but they owe 35,000 Mauritian on the television set. Is Karma or inconsiderate behaviour which is the root cause of their distress?

 

We are all born with our Karma; we bring it with us as our passport. However, our behaviour is our own making. We desire sex before marriage; we are never satisfied with what we have, we always desire more and more luxury. One wife is not enough, we want two or more.

 

Desire is one thing, Karma is another.

 

At the Lotus Feet of Sai

Anita