The secret of living a Healthy, Wealthy, and Happy Life is understanding the Law of Karma, and living your life as per the Law of Karma.
The Secret of Law of Karma
Universe has abundance of health, wealth, and happiness; but it will give you those only to the extent you do right karma.
For your every right action (karma), something good happens in your life; and for your every wrong action, something bad happens in your life. That is the simplest definition of the Law of Karma.
Every human being has a Karma account, which is quite similar to a bank’s savings account and loan account. You can withdraw and spend from your savings account only to the extent you have balance money there; and you have to keep paying off your loan until the loan is fully paid off. Karma account works exactly the same way. Good things will happen in your life only to the extent you have done right karmas. And bad things will happen in your life as a payoff of your wrong karmas. There is no escape from this science of cause and effect. Like the bank and loan account continues from one year to the next until they are closed down; similarly, karma account goes on from one life into the next until the last life of an individual soul.
Now, the last sentence will be difficult for people of certain faith to digest, who do not believe in rebirth. But, without believing in rebirth you will not understand the law of karma. And without understanding the law of karma, you cannot develop right habits, which is mandatory for living a healthy, wealthy, and happy life.
Human birth is decided based on the balance of right and wrong karmas of previous life. Hence, people are born inequal. Some are born rich, some poor; some are born healthy, some not; some are born in conducive environment, others not. Your last life’s balance karmas influence your present life’s birth, and some of the events of your present life. When you die, you will have some right and wrong karma balance, that will influence your next birth, and some events of next life.
Often a question is asked, if present life is decided by previous life, then what decides the first life? Well, first lives of fully developed human beings occurred in the very beginning of satyug (golden age). There was no inequality or negativity then. Every soul’s first few human births were equal. There was no concept of rich and poor, good or bad government, etc. in the beginning of golden age. All first born were healthy and perfect.
As time went by, people died, and were reborn, and the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth continued through millenniums. Today, more than five thousand years down kaliyug (dark age) we all (individual souls) are at different milestones of our spiritual journey. Each of us have different understanding, we think and act differently, because of the differences in our wisdom about law of karma. Lack of wisdom about the law of karma is the only reason of your wrong habits; and your wrong habits are the only reasons that stop you from being healthy, wealthy, and happy permanently.
GOOD and BAD are relative terms; RIGHT and WRONG are not. Spiritual living means doing only the RIGHT (thoughts, words, and deeds). To know what’s RIGHT, as against what’s WRONG, apply the golden rule- Do unto others what you would have others done unto your loved ones and you. When you do to others what you would have wanted others to do to your loved ones and you; know that you are doing the RIGHT thing.
