KARMA

"Everything is fair in war and love."Pakistan had been refusing to take back the bodies of their soldiers because they were stuck with the statement that the Pakistan army was not fighting in the war.

The lines between vikarma and karma start getting blurry in this situation. One has to be aware of not only what you see but also of what you do not see.

There is this famous puzzle that clarifies the point a little  further. A Brahmin is walking by. He sees a cow running.

He keeps walking when he meets abutcher carrying his big knife. The butcher asks the Brahmin if he has seen a cow going by.

That was his cow and she had run out of his butchery. She (the cow) is due to be killed, and he is going to kill the moment he finds her.

The Brahmin is in trouble now. Lying is a vikarma and so is killing (specially of a cow).

The Brahmin is in a bind. The butcher is telling the Brahmin that all he has to answer was yes or no. Did he or did he not see the cow.

The Brahmin wants time to think. The question for him is not the cow but which vikarma to choose.

The emphasis in the east is not so much on the karma or vikarma but more on the status of the subject behind the karma, the doer.

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