Visible Karma-Effect: Subtle Karma-Cause
A wealthy businessman donates fifty thousand rupees to a charity. His friend asks him why he did so and the businessman tells him that he would not have donated a single penny had it not been for the pressure from the mayor. Now what will be the fruit of this? The donation he made is the visible karma, the rewards of which he will get in this life when people praise and admire him for his generosity. But even while people praise him for his #generosity, what is he charging within? The consequence of bhaav (inner intent) karma of, “I would not give even a single penny…,” he will experience in his next life. In his next life he will not be able to donate even a single penny! This is the subtle karma, which is the cause for the next life’s effect. The donation made in this life was an effect. Now who can understand something so subtle?
On the other hand a poor man is asked to make a contribution for the same #charity, and his response is that he has only five rupees with him, which they can have. He further tells them that he would donate five lakh rupees without any hesitation if he had that kind of money. He is#sincere about this. His donation of five rupees is the discharge of karma created in his past life, but what does he charge subtly? A karma where in his next life he will be able to donate five lakh rupees when this #karma comes into fruition.
A person may appear to be a generous donor on the outside, making a lot of donations to religious causes, and may appear to be very active in#religious activities, while on the inside he may be scheming to take money which does not rightfully belong to him.
This person’s visible action is an effect and for it he will receive #praise here in this life. He has created a new life of misery for himself for the causes, which exist within him. Donations, charitable deeds etc., are all visible karma, the benefits of which are reaped in this life. People believe that these visible #karma are the charge karma for the next life. In fact, it is the subtle karma, happening within, that are charge karma and these will come into fruition in the next life.
If a person were to steal today, his action of stealing would be the visible karma. The fruit of this karma will be there in this lifetime; he will be disgraced and punished. All visible karma are simply an #effect and there is no #cause in that which is visible. Only subtle karma, otherwise known as ‘inner intent,’ is of importance. The whole world however, strives to change the visible karma, by focusing on acts and behavior.
The #monks and #ascetics, who practice meditation and #penance etc, do so because of their effect karma. There is no cause karma in these outer acts of theirs. Their actions today is their karma effect, the fruits of which they will experience in this life when people give them credit for their penance.
Reference: The Science of Karma (page 27-29)
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