The Law of Karma

OSHO





The law of karma is not a law.It is not something scientific, like the law of gravitation. It has been hoped for centuries that if you do good, you will attain good results. If you look at nature, there are laws, but science has not come even close to detecting anything like the law of karma. If you simply say any action is bound to produce some reaction, it is possible to have scientific support for it. But we are hoping for much more. We are asking that a good action inevitably brings a good consequence with it, and the same with a bad action. Now, there are many things implied in this.The law of karma is a hope. A man wandering in darkness, groping his way , clings to anything that gives a little hope, a little light -because what you observe in life itself is something totally different from the law of karma. A man who is a criminal may succeed and become the president, the prime minister -or vice versa.
If you are living a poor, miserable life, the law of karma says it is because in a past life, you committed evil acts. If somebody is enjoying good health, money and power, you need not be jealous of him: he has done good deeds in a past life and now he is reaping the crop. He has indeed sowed the seeds in his past life.
It does not matter whether you call it good or bad, because what you call it -good or bad -will depend upon your conditioning. If you want to know what the act brings, then you have to drop your psychology; then you will know the law of karma -not before that.