We have been taught since childhood whatever goes around comes around like a boomerang. Ever thought of, what if we can control what goes out of us?
When we choose to hate and seek revenge it does more harm to us than to others. Instead of making people responsible for your own thoughts of vengeance and implementing them, own your actions irrespective of the fact they were right or wrong. They were taken at certain point of time keeping in mind some externalities and situations. Everyone has heard of buzz word "Karma", which balances the positive and negatives of world and tracks you down. Let’s talk a little about this in detail.
Karma is not like God, which will pardon you with time. It’s a voracious vicious cycle and has insatiable hunger for neutralising the good and bad deeds. When karma is acting on us we should focus on not blaming anyone else for it. Blaming others and seeking revenge will only create one more new cycle of karma.
When karma is acting on you try to think of channelizing your energy to create a new positive field. “Make peace with past” and help your present to have a beautiful satisfying future. Articulate new visions as change is the only permanent thing in life.
Just as if we keep eating stale food our stomach get upset keep eating bad thoughts makes the mind upset. Instead of seeking for vengeance, think for compassion, grace and reconciliation. Believe me if with this thought boomerang goes while returning it will give you the most positive results. Even the greatest leaders of history who took the best of decisions considering the worst situations have been apprehended.
I have always been fascinated by the Krishna's story of death. He is one of the greatest deities of Hinduism. When Kurukshetra war lead to hundreds of death of Gandhari’s sons she cursed him in fit of rage thinking that it was Krishna who deliberately did not put end to the war. The curse ended up killing Krishna by Jara who shot an arrow thinking of him to be deer. Kauravas were destined to die but Krishna had to take the responsibility of being a strategist in the war which in turn led him to be cursed to die a slow painful death. This gives spectrum of answers on ideological freedom of human beings, the choices they make and there responsibility towards themselves and others. You need to take it in your stride and move. In a way to teach the lesson to others we may end up hurting ourselves. Decide you need peace, tranquility and calmness or noise, conflicts and irritation.
Think choose and act wise! Once if you end up hurting someone it is a mistake twice or more is a convention.
Enough lies, ploying, plotting, revenge have been discussed and done in history. You never know what the other person has been through when you were ploying on them. Point is when we ploy on someone our hands get dirty too. The seeds of hatred have been laid by us and the damage that happens is the fruits as results. Karma sits and watches and is back to us in a very brutal way. At that moment sit back and think and work for your future and not plot revenge again, to derive power from destroying someone else. Remember Karmic chakra will still follow again therefore It’s indeed to stop the future cycle and work on betterment of our life. Sometimes enemies of yours our hiding beneath your sleeves Choice is upto us from which lens we orchestrate. Hatred is like a cancer which makes us die each day so eat the right thoughts to avoid mental diarrhea.
The writer is a Manager with Tata Steeland the views expressed in the article are her own.