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The Real Karma
The Sanskrit term “Karma” simply refers to “duty”, that is, your everyday duty as a human being. And this duty has no mystical intervention in it – it has no divine law that can determine a certain reward in return. It’s plain ordinary everyday human action. However, the nonsense of Hindu orthodoxy and the gullibility of people have turned the simple idea of karma or human action into a form of divine law – where one receives reward for doing good and punishment for doing bad. This primordial and uncivilized form of Karma is nothing but an ignorant fantasy of ignorant people. It gives them a kind of comfort that if a person does good, he or she would for sure receive a reward in return by the force of this karmic law. And this is nothing but the product of psychological insecurity of the human mind. So, the so-called law of karma is all superstitious nonsense, quite similar to the afterlife nonsense.
Real humans with a beating heart and active conscience would do good in the world, not because of some mumbo-jumbo law, but because that’s what being human means. That act of goodness and kindness does not determine the reward you’ll get for your action. In fact, real karma or real human duty is the act that is carried out with the genuine hope of bringing a change outside of us – in the world, not in anticipation of reward. And that very act of pure conscience is karma, morality, religion, godliness, spirituality all together. These are all varied terms for the one and the same thing, that is being a conscientious human being. In short, to be a conscientious human is real karma – it is real spirituality – it is real religion.
Real humans with a beating heart and active conscience would do good in the world, not because of some mumbo-jumbo law, but because that’s what being human means. That act of goodness and kindness does not determine the reward you’ll get for your action. In fact, real karma or real human duty is the act that is carried out with the genuine hope of bringing a change outside of us – in the world, not in anticipation of reward. And that very act of pure conscience is karma, morality, religion, godliness, spirituality all together. These are all varied terms for the one and the same thing, that is being a conscientious human being. In short, to be a conscientious human is real karma – it is real spirituality – it is real religion.
Book of Destiny (The Sonnet) | Bulldozer on Duty
“Jellyfish call it karma, The juggernaut only knows unselfish duty. Cowards leave all to kismet, fate or destiny, Creators wield life as an instrument of causality.”
“Book of Destiny (The Sonnet)
The book of destiny is the being,
Who doesn’t believe in destiny.
The epitome of victory is the one,
Who doesn’t care for victory.
Victory and destiny all are born,
Of the sweat and blood of the determined.
Annihilate the self for a purpose,
And you’ll be the icon of universal uplift.
You don’t fall by falling at someone’s feet,
You fall by climbing on top of others’ head.
You don’t rise by being superior to others,
But by losing sense of high ‘n low divisiveness.
Mark me well, human is neither person nor species.
Designation Human is the highest of all responsibilities.”
“Book of Destiny (The Sonnet)
The book of destiny is the being,
Who doesn’t believe in destiny.
The epitome of victory is the one,
Who doesn’t care for victory.
Victory and destiny all are born,
Of the sweat and blood of the determined.
Annihilate the self for a purpose,
And you’ll be the icon of universal uplift.
You don’t fall by falling at someone’s feet,
You fall by climbing on top of others’ head.
You don’t rise by being superior to others,
But by losing sense of high ‘n low divisiveness.
Mark me well, human is neither person nor species.
Designation Human is the highest of all responsibilities.”
Sonnet Shahada, 2345 – Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat
I switch cultures like clothes,
I switch sciences like pens.
I switch scriptures like tides,
I switch languages like seasons.
Service of humanity is supreme shahada,
to defend the persecuted is cosmic khalsa,
to treat neighbor as god is real dharma,
quiet kindness is the real karma.
Ana al-haqq, ana al-hub –
aham bindu, aham brahmanda.
I shed dogma like dead skin,
el cosmos es mi casa.
