Law of Karma works according to quality of one’s total personality

Karma works perfectly because a human being is like a drop and nature and universe are like ocean—both are same in make up, but differ only in size.

It is so powerful that it can change the decision of others already made for you wrongly. For example, a student named Subramanyan Chandrasekhar (who later became Nobel Prize winner for Physics) attended the interview for scholarship. But he came only on 5^(th) in the list as vacancy was only for four students. Next day he realized that Rs. 7 had been overpaid to him by mistake as his TA, hence he went back to the Institute’s account’s department to return it. The interviewer Dr. CV Raman (scientist) noticed him and asked why he came as he was not selected in yesterday’s interview. He replied “to return Rs. 7 overpaid to him by mistake.” Dr. CV Raman became more impressed with the quality of his inner self than his interest in Physics and made special arrangement and expanded the scholarship number into five. This incident is recorded in the book [Seven Rupees That Changed My Life] written by Mr. S Chandrasekhar himself who is called CHANDRA in the Scientific Community. This proves what was attracted to him happened due to the satvic (fine/spiritual) quality of his Soul, the immaterial.

According to ancient sages in India, universe and our physical bodies are made of five basic things—Akasa (ether), *vayu (*air), agni (fire), jala (liquid) and prithvi (solid) and these are ruled by right combination and proportion of three gunas (qualities)—satva (pure, good and beneficial, related to knowledge, happiness), thamasic (inert, dull, related to resistance, confusion) and rajasic (dynamic, passionately active, related to pain). Ether is predominantly satvic, air is predominantly rajasic, fire is satvic and rajasic, water is satvic and thamasic, earth is thamasic.

These three basic gunas which exist in combination permeate through everything—inanimate and animate, tangible and intangible.

A person is called satvic if satvic guna is predominant in him;
A person is called rajasic if rajasic guna is predominant and
A person is called thamasic if thamasic guna is predominant.

The five sensations that emerge from those five elements—Pressure/Touch, Sound, Sight, Taste And Smell are absorbed by us in the form of energy through our five senses—Skin, Ears, Eyes, Tongue and Nose respectively.

Interestingly, these five sensations can be observed, imagined and contemplated in the mind too. If you imagine as tasting some pickle, your mouth reacts as though pickle reached there. “Though the elements in the mind are more subtle than those in the body, they retain the same basic attributes and actions.” (Ayurveda and the Mind, by Frawley) A person dreaming about burning his hand by mistake pulls back his hand instantly and gets up from sleep screaming aloud only to realize that pain was felt in the Soul, not in the hand of his body. This shows all sensations are felt by the immaterial and sense organs are only a physical means. Hence what happens in the body can influence the mind, and vice versa—hence the term psychosomatic diseases used in the Medical Science.

“The body and the mind are the abodes of diseases as well as health. Proper body-mind interaction is the cause for happiness.” (Charaka Samhita) Depending upon the nature of action (satvic, rajasic, thamasic) one performs, his body and mind too becomes satvic, rajasic, thamasic respectively which will attract the same forces from five basic elements outside. If some action did not get the consequence, it will come in the next birth(s) as basis for attracting the fitting consequence is still available in the Soul.

Hence any action performed in the universe, on earth, in the body and also in the mind will not go without consequence as everything everywhere is ruled by those three qualities—sato-rajo-tamo.

Here is an incident* reported in Associated Press. At the 1994 Annual Awards dinner given for Forensic Sciences in the USA, AAFS President Dr. Don Harper Mills explained something that happened during his office time. One person named Ronald Opus committed suicide by jumping from the top of the flat leaving a suicide note. But post-mortem report showed that he was killed by a bullet injury—bullet hit him while he was falling from top of the flat—while he was mid-air. Further inquiry revealed the following:

A youngster named Ronald Opus had an argument with his mother who persistently refused to fund his bad habits. He knew that whenever his parents quarreled, his dad used to take the (unloaded) gun and threaten her which mother believes to be a loaded gun, and quarrel ends in peace. Ronald Opus purposely loaded the gun (which was witnessed by someone in the nearby Flat) with the intention that his mother should be killed by his dad unwittingly. It so happened that his dad used the gun against his wife and pulled the trigger while his son was mid-air on his attempt to commit suicide. Thus he was killed by his own loading of the gun with the intention of killing somebody else.

*Footnote—extract from the book Science of Mind Simplified, by Dr. Chandrasekar, p 128, 129