The Mists of Brahma (The Pataala Prophecy, #2)

by Christopher C. Doyle

capacity to make spontaneous and instinctive judgements about everything around us. We look at something and judge it as good or bad. And very often, we do this without even knowing much about whatever we are judging. Isn’t that true?’

‘Judgement emphasises differences. You need to find the similarities. And replace the tendency to judge with an ability to understand, to empathise. That will bring you closer to the object of your focus.’

She pulled herself together. Why was she going to pieces? The law of karma worked in more ways than one. Sadhs often used it to explain why bad things happened to good people. To explain concepts like destiny and fate. And how one’s actions in a past birth were responsible for all that happened to them in their lives. But Maya knew that this explanation was effectively an abdication of accountability. This simplistic interpretation of the law of karma effectively took away the onus from a person for what happened to them in their current lives. Sure, she reflected, our past life and our actions in it do influence the circumstances of our birth and some of the things that happen in our present life. But many things that happen in our lives are a result of the choices we make and the decisions we take. Very often, luck—whether good or bad—can be attributed directly to these.