"As you sow, so you shall reap"

There are certain laws which are involved in our actions and interactions.
They are not human laws requiring lawyers to interpret or the police to
enforce. They are natural laws which are constantly operating in every
relationship. They are often called the Laws of Karma (action): briefly
described by the saying, "As you sow, so you shall reap”, described by
Isaac Newton as the Laws of Motion i.e. 'for every action, there is an equal
and opposite reaction'. The Laws of Karma remind us that whatever quality
of energy we give out, we get back. This might not be exactly 'an eye for
an eye', but if we give happiness to someone, it will come back to us; if we
give pain or sorrow, it will come back, perhaps not today or tomorrow, but
at some time in the future.
Most of us are conditioned by the idea that we are responsible for some of
our actions, but not all of them. For example, we would consider ourselves
responsible for the actions which bring our colleagues together for a task
at work but would not consider ourselves responsible for the argument we
have with a neighbour. We would consider ourselves responsible for driving
our family safely to their holiday destination, but if we nearly have an
accident because we were trying to get there quickly we might consider the
other driver responsible for nearly causing the accident. If we sustain
our family through our own enterprise and professional efforts we would take
the credit, but if we turned to a life of crime to clothe and feed ourselves
we might blame the inequalities of society or the years of a difficult
childhood.


Life can be seen as a series of responses which we each create in our
interactions with other people and events. The Laws of action also serve to remind us that our
circumstances and our personality today are the result of what we thought
and did yesterday, last month, last year, perhaps in our last birth. Many
people do not like this idea or find it difficult to accept because most of
us have been taught that our destiny lies in someone else's hands or in the
hands of fate or luck, about which we can do nothing.It is a law which teaches
us that there is no such thing as luck and that whatever happens to us today
is the result of our benevolent (positive) or negative actions in the past.
If you spend a few moments reflecting on events in your life, without
judgment or emotion, you will begin to see connections between actions and
results, causes and effects.

Gurbani Says-
ਪੂਰਬਿ ਲਿਖਿਆ ਸੁ ਕਰਮੁ ਕਮਾਇਆ ॥
पूरबि लिखिआ सु करमु कमाइआ ॥
Pūrab likẖi▫ā so karam kamā▫i▫ā.
According to their pre-ordained destiny, they act out their karma.