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You Can Only Reap What You Sow
A modern and pragmatic interpretation of Hinduism’s karma
Karma is the Hindu idea that good deeds generally lead to good luck and bad deeds often lead to misfortune. In Hinduism karma is tied to reincarnation, past lives, and other parts of the Hindu religion; what if you strip away all that? What if you remove all religious aspects of karma, and simply use it as a guiding principle in life?
What is karma?
The basic idea of karma is simple. All your actions have consequences. Sometimes the cause and effect are obvious and immediate: studying more leads to higher grades. Working more leads to more money. Eating more leads to gaining weight. Sometimes, cause and effect are less obvious: You start doing stretches. This does not have any obvious consequences besides less back pain, but feeling more comfortable because your muscles are no longer tight leads to tiny changes in your behaviour. You become a little happier every day and are a bit more friendly to other people. Every interaction being 1% more pleasant adds up and a few years down the line you are in a totally different place than you would’ve been.
Science generally supports this notion through chaos theory. Tiny differences in chaotic systems lead to majorly different results. The classic example of this is…
