right or wrong?

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kiran deep is a sister of mine and she thinks too much so i asked to her ventilate her ideas on this blog...


Does karma really exist, if exist then who decides?

Almost every Indian school of thought believes in karma. The Sanskrit word Karma literally means action --or "work," "deed," "function," etc.. In Buddhism however, karma mainly refers to one's intention or motivation while doing an action.

But, does karma mean only action, or it includes intentions or thought?

Or, does it include action without intention?

Or, it doesn’t exist at all, as according to Carvaka?

It is generally said that actions performed consciously are weighted more heavily than those done unconsciously. But just as poison affects us if taken unknowingly, suffering caused unintentionally will also give appropriate karmic effect.

There can be four ways through which one begets Karma:
• through thoughts
• through words
• through one's actions
• through actions others do under one's instructions
'Karma' is an Indian religious concept in contradiction to 'faith' espoused by Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam), which view all human dramas as the will of God as opposed to present - and past - life actions. In theistic schools of Hinduism, humans have free will to choose good or evil and suffer the consequences, which require the will of God to implement karma's consequences, unlike Buddhism or Jainism which does not accord any role to a supreme God or gods.

In Buddhism, it is stated that the theory of karma should not be confused with ‘moral justice’ or ‘reward and punishment’. The idea of moral justice arises out of the conception of a supreme being, a God, who sits in judgment, who is a law-giver and who decides what is right and wrong.

In Buddhism, the theory of karma is the theory of cause and effect, of action and reaction; it is a natural law, which has nothing to do with the idea of justice or reward and punishment. Every volitional action produces its effects or results. If a good action produces good effects, it is not justice, or reward, meted out by anybody or any power sitting in judgment of your action, but this is in virtue of its own nature, its own law.
According to Sikhism, this life is likened to a field (Khet) in which our Karma is the seed. We harvest exactly what we sow. No less, no more. This infallible law of Karma holds everyone responsible for what the person is or going to be.
In short almost all systems of Indian philosophy believe that our karma decides our future. In other words, if we will perform good karma then we will get good result, and if we will perform bad karma then we will get bad results.
But question is: who will decide what is good and what is bad.
We human beings are always concern with the question ‘what is right and wrong?’ The question what is right and what is wrong, or what is good and what is bad is very complicated and very debatable and very controversial question.
Different people give different answers to this question.

Some says, “our religious beliefs are enough to tell us, what is right or wrong."
On the other hand, according to some, “law is requiring to tell us, what is right or wrong."
While according to some “our society tells us, what is right or wrong."
And, some can also reply: “I don't know what the world means to tell us, what is right or wrong."

But, can religion, law society rules or intuition really tell us what is right and wrong?

Kirandeep Kour
Masters in Philosophy
University of Delhi