Friday, August 03, 2007
Blog Worthy -Karma Talk
So its not often that you "eavesdrop" on a conversation (I claim it was accidental) and think now THAT is something I want to blog about.
The chance-eavesdropping happened last evening in the mall, while I was getting out of work. Two middle aged women,thier phsyique bordering on obese, wearing jeans, tee shirts, and sneakers, and chatting - they looked typically american to say the least. Now, they were talking loudly about a man, likely to be a messy ex-husband- because they were badmouthing him and something he had done to another woman in the past.
To cut a long story short - this chatty lady then proceeds to declare "Its all Karma - one day he will realize that all the bad stuff he had done is probably not worthwhile" and she repeated saying Karma Karma - if not in this lifetime sometime later - Karma will catch up with him"
These many instances of the word "Karma" - almost (mis)pronounced as "Carr-ma" got me intrigued. Why would a woman half way across the world attribute bad behaviour to Karma? I haven't said the word Karma these many times in my whole life.
Karma is different from Destiny though.
Karma=consequences= next life ; Destiny=unchangable events=this life
Anyway food for thought -
Why would a white person be so interested in Karma? Are westerners increasingly using Karma as the mind's way of coping with injustice?
So its not often that you "eavesdrop" on a conversation (I claim it was accidental) and think now THAT is something I want to blog about.
The chance-eavesdropping happened last evening in the mall, while I was getting out of work. Two middle aged women,thier phsyique bordering on obese, wearing jeans, tee shirts, and sneakers, and chatting - they looked typically american to say the least. Now, they were talking loudly about a man, likely to be a messy ex-husband- because they were badmouthing him and something he had done to another woman in the past.
To cut a long story short - this chatty lady then proceeds to declare "Its all Karma - one day he will realize that all the bad stuff he had done is probably not worthwhile" and she repeated saying Karma Karma - if not in this lifetime sometime later - Karma will catch up with him"
These many instances of the word "Karma" - almost (mis)pronounced as "Carr-ma" got me intrigued. Why would a woman half way across the world attribute bad behaviour to Karma? I haven't said the word Karma these many times in my whole life.
Karma is different from Destiny though.
Karma=consequences= next life ; Destiny=unchangable events=this life
Anyway food for thought -
Why would a white person be so interested in Karma? Are westerners increasingly using Karma as the mind's way of coping with injustice?
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