1,134 Quotes About Karma

Time and Space is a restaurant where you have to pay with the currency of Karma to eat a dish (experience). You can't exit it unless you spend all your Karma. The catch is that every time you spend Karma, you get a cashback of Karma. So you can never fully spend Karma.

It is interesting to observe that the more I insult someone with the word stupid and the more one judges me as arrogant, the more that same individual refuses to know what I know, read what I write, therefore entrapping himself in ignorance and egotism for many more years of his life, proving that people are only victims of their decisions, not their circumstances.

Merit Karma (punya) has made one wander in the worldly life. Merit Karma brings together sensual pleasures (of 5 senses), from which arises deceit. Temptation to indulge in pleasure is the reason that gives rise to deceit. And deceit gives rise to the worldly life. Deceit and revengeful enmity is the reason this worldly life remains in existence.

What is the lowest form of life in this world? Is it theft, cunningness, or falsehood? There is no state that is lower than the yearning to be worshipped by people. The desire to be worshipped while being unworthy of worship is very wrong indeed.

Buddhi (intellect) makes one emotional. What would happen if this train were to become emotional? It will cause accident and kill many people. Similarly, when humans become emotional, countless jivas (organisms) die within. So remain in ‘motion’.

When you get irritated with children; that is considered as taking a new ‘loan’ (new karma is charged). You have not yet paid off the old one! To become irritated is an “extra item” outside of the “contract” (the past lives deeds between 2 people). This is how one continues to create new debts (new karma is charged).

If you give the slightest pain to any living being, then in the form of pain, the pain-giving-karma will give you its ‘fruit’. So think before you hurt any living being.

All these people get married for happiness, but the poor people become miserable within. That is because it is not under one’s control whether to be happy or miserable. It is dependent on the effect of one’s past deeds (karma). One has no choice. One has to endure them.

People go on forgetting every phase in life. They draw the next phase and keep on forgetting the previous one.