Desire laden karmas make you less
altruistic
If all your efforts and activities are laden with materialistic desire and you are always on the
look out to increase your own comforts
only, you will not be classified as an altruistic person. Rather, you will be
known as a selfish character. Your attitude will be mostly smeared with greed
and you will be frustrated, if the outcome of all your efforts does not
generate more profits and success to you. Needless to say that all our actions
are driven by two instincts, which are known as nature and greediness. We
cannot get rid of all those karmas, which are arisen due to shear needs. Everything
surrounds us follow the pattern of nature from where there is no escape. When
you are physically hurt by any accident or mentally by somebody’s sarcastic and
invective criticism, your mind agitates or you become gloomy. This is a natural
phenomenon. In the same way, the
scorching sun burns our body and we profusely sweat due to its not so soothing ray,
particularly during summer, but at the same time, this sunlight ripens our food
and sustains life. Whether we are happy or not because of this natural sequence,
the sun does its Karma. We cannot expect the sun to radiate a cool breeze. The
intensity of the heat is lessened when the sun gets clouded, but we cannot
expect sun not to emit light. In
general, the same is the balancing theory of nature.
The
entire universe is plunged joyfully in discharging karmas in their own way.
Despite so many frowns, criticisms, negative opinions and cultural barriers,
all are busy in ineluctably because karma cannot be stopped and the one karma
is bound to lead to another one. A cow
needs to eat grass to satiate its hunger; otherwise it will die. Hence, searching food is its natural instinct.
No sooner, the cow sees the grass, it gets tempted to graze and eat despite the
trouble from other animals. The cow fulfills the need by the impulse of that
particular moment irrespective of any trouble it may face. The same is the
theory related to karma. You may decide to be an artist, but your parents are
completely against your wish and not supportive
of your enigmatic plan to embrace upon this career. You become stubborn and
with your studies, you manage this portfolio quite well and become one of the
reputed artists in the distant future.
What does it transpire? Karma
driven by conscious is bound to yield results, whereas the karma, which is laden
with greed, wish-list, extraordinary pecuniary benefits and selfish thoughts
are no longer driven based on need No sooner, the thoughts of desires enter into
the sphere of karma and the same is provoking and guiding you to inspire you,
ego emanates. This ego fuels your desire
and excessive needs and ultimately, you are forced to propel through a wrong
path, creating a relenting and vicious cycle of fulfillment foregoing altruism.
Then you will not be able to discriminate the thin layer, which layers the
basic need and excessive greed. Ego then
surfaces out with fear and doubt. Fear
is a contagious disease, which always increases your anxieties of very many
types. Out of fear, you will doubt your abilities
to perform your karmas. You will always
question, “Can I perform?” Doubt will not be able to pacify you, “What is there
if I cannot perform?” In the midst of these
mental constraints, you will be puzzled to continue with your karmas, which you
are supposed to carry out. Everybody has
an ego, but that same ego when gets induced to make you work namby-pamby, it
has been observed that you did your karmas
at that time, which are mostly desire driven. You are guided by your false
sense of security and hubris. In nature,
there is not much room for enough greed and in the same way, there is not
plenty to satisfy the need. Desire laden
karmas are definitely selected by choices.
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We
create these karmas not out of compulsion, but out of natural propensity and we then land into pain, sufferings and all
types of ill feelings.
Since,
we are so much governed by the allurement of the materialistic world and its grandeur,
we become very much prejudiced and fail to differentiate between need and
greed. We continually pursue our desire
laden karmas and create anxieties. We
dwindle and apparently invite sufferings for us and also for others. We
completely upset the fragile natural balance between human beings, various
creatures and environment. In this way,
we create severe mental agonies for ourselves.
When we are very much driven by ego based desires, we must take the help
of strong social structures and laws to protect us with respect to social and
environmental balance. But the pressure
of unsatisfied desire based needs guided by ego, we easily find ways and means
to remove the shackles of social and environmental structures. In the modern world, we are covered with the
blankets of thickly layered ego based desires.
Needless to say, we should not find out an escape route to avoid natural
karmas, but we must not be in the bondage of ego and desire laden karmas. We must define and if required, redefine what
are our needs and greed to live a balance life. We must draw a line of
bifurcation and choose between these two individually and collectively with our
conscious and knowledge. In this way only, we
will be able to get rid of the karmas, which are creating materialistic
comforts for us and we will find out the path of altruistic way of living.
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