The ways of Karma
Welcome to the Karma series. In a series of blogs, I would try to brief on what Karma is as I understand it. This is the first post in the series. Hope you get something useful out of it. The word Karma is more than popular in English language even though it doesn't have any linguistic background relevant to the word. "Karma" is a Sanskrit word (and so, obviously present in most of the Indian languages) which means "Action". Indian spiritual texts refer in their shlokas to the modern translation " One's life is one's Karma ". It means that a person's life is the way they make it. Be it joyous, depressed, or angry life or a cocktail of whatever proportions of each of them, it is still the making of the self. But, how can one make their own life miserable? Why would it* want to? *for the sake of gender neutrality, I refer to the person as 'it' It may seem pretty easy to accept that statement in circumstances where you make cho...