Through wrongdoings, humans are deceiving themselves in many ways and are thus sowing the seeds of sorrow and suffering for generations to come, says Rajyogi Brahmakumar Nikunj Ji
The buzz around the web series, Scam 1992, which is based on the Indian stock market scam or the security scam of 1992, refuses to die down even after months. The story reminded all of us about the plain truth that every action — good or bad — bears fruit, sooner or later. No one, however high or mighty, can escape the result of his or her actions. Of course, every action takes its own time to ripen, yet no action remains totally barren for life. Moreover, one may escape the clutches of law for some time or the government of the day may favour a person and may leave him/her without taking any action against him/her but the law of action, or what is called the ‘principle of Karma’ is inviolable and no government, however unwilling and mighty, can stand in its way. It will take its course and punish an evil-doer, ultimately.
There is no iota of doubt that the people involved in the case of the security scam were very influential. They had contacts with those who occupied the seats of power. They themselves had the power of money. They had friends and well-wishers who held great positions in society. Also, no one suspected these people to be doing such crimes and anti-social activities until the scam was out in open. But we all have seen that a time came when the situations became such that even their best friends could not help them and their power of money, which they had considered as a great boon. Money eventually turned into a deep curse for them as they had earned it through criminal or sinful methods. They had thought that they had been able to fool the government, hoodwink the people in authority, escape the attention of the invigilators and gag those who were expected to raise voice. However, in fact, they had been leading themselves nearer and nearer to a situation of great horror and severe retribution and punishment. Thus, they felt shocked when they discovered that they had landed themselves in trouble of great and unimaginable magnitude.
Most of us do not realise that evil actions cloud a person’s intellect and judging abilities. It deludes a person’s mind. Instead of feeling shameful about their acts, one looks at it as a proud or a successful moment — as if one is rising high on the ladder of social positions and gaining economic power. Ultimately, sooner or later, a day arrives when the ladder suddenly breaks under one’s weight and he falls down from “great heights.” And the result is certainly grievous. He bleeds with pain and shock. His honour gets badly fractured. His face gets smeared with dust. He feels humiliation, which is worse than death. He thinks that his friends and well-wishers are mere spectators who could not save him from this steep fall. He does not dare stand and look at his kith and kin because he has guilty conscience and thinks that he had been hiding his true picture even from them and had been projecting himself as a great figure. Thus, he wishes that the earth opens up and makes way for him to lie deep under it rather than go back to the society, where he has now been declared a criminal.
And the outcome of the scam, what happened? We all know that a promising entrepreneur, who introduced the term ‘scam’ to India, spent much of his time in earning by sinful ways, against his conscience. He tried hard to hide this money from the watchful eyes of the tax authority. He lost his peace of the day to earn and his sleep of nights to the fear of being caught. For a while, he got some make-believe respect from those whom he had befooled. Even this respect was not relished by him because, deep in his mind, he knew that he was not an honourable man. And, then, at the end of all his endeavours, he stood humiliated, rejected, dejected and utterly disappointed.
Alas, the man understood the inexorable law of Karma well and in time. The multitude of mankind does not even bother to understand it. Some, who have a cursory knowledge of it, do not act according to this knowledge. Others lay the paltry knowledge of this aside when they act. And a vast majority of men and women internally violate this law because they think that others also are doing it or because they think that no one knows that they have done something wrong. Still others think that they are doing a sinful action for a noble cause. Thus, man is deceiving himself in many ways and is thus sowing the seeds of sorrows and sufferings. May the scam and many such events serve as another powerful reminder for the humankind that a good act is inherently good and is a precious attainment and a bad act is a loss and a punishment from the time it is done till the time of its final settlement.
