Sinful and Virtuous Doings

(Continued Our Endless Chain of Karma-IV) We are conscious beings Like all beings on earth we have to do something to fulfill the needs of life. Life in creation is such that it is sustained by creations own efforts. The philosophy of existentialism tells us that creation once separate from its creator (divine or temporal) becomes free and free to bear the tension and responsibility of the actions it performs. Now apply this principle to humans We are free beings. The consciousness in us is condemned to be free. We have a temporal (worldly) creator in form of our immediate parents. We have divine creator as nature who creates us for her own mysterious ends. Even legal system does not hold our parents responsible for our acts. We live to live. We live to sustain life in us. The whole legal system which binds us and allow and disallow certain actions to perform. It is there to only put Civic Chains only to our doings. This being merely an arrangement by us humans, to maintain sanctity of society. We put or society put for us a minor or major control on our personal freedom. The values on which our social and legal system is based change with changing times. So this can be never said with utmost certainty that a particular doing is Sinful or virtuous, was so in the past and will not remain so in the future. In Mahabharata or particularly so in the Geeta performance of violent actions, to do killings are to be virtuous ones, if you say with utmost sincerity that you are performing them (the Killings) to promote Dharma (Virtue) in society. But every person may have his or her own sense of dharma so with changing times we have different set of values and different sort of legal and social binding to judge our actions. Otherwise we are free to perform any activity on earth. We are also free to take our own life in extreme circumstances. But this freedom of ours just evaporate when we confront consequence of our actions. But the question is does these consequences remain up to our life time or travel beyond than that. Another question is to put our actions in virtuous of sinful category which is a great moral binding on us humans. A particular action may become virtuous in one setting and become totally sinful in another one. Example you steal to feed a person dying with starvation or you kill a wrong doer out to molest an innocent woman. The question to decide is whether we cause sin by performing one particular action. May this action be murder or stealing or simply an act of lying etc. etc.

What actually amount to sin? Do we really turn sinful by simply acting on a momentary decision of us? Why do we repent on the actions performed in past whereby at the time of performance we never had such (negative) feeling? As put in my previous three blogs on the same topic, of every action performed on earth we have two doers on scene. One is the individual doer that is us and other is collective doer the whole nature- may be called God. God is supreme doer if we happen to subscribe any spiritual philosophy of life and have knowledge and idea about it. So by making nature or God the supreme doer and assigning the results and fruits of all my acts to nature or God do I get complete sense of freedom from sinful feelings. If again not so and sense of virtue or sin remains with us after so much knowledge and understanding of spirit or God there must be some greater binding on action of humans.