Dugu wrote:Why good karma produce good results.. and why bad karma produce bad results.
If karma produced bad results, why would we call it good karma? If karma produced good results, why would we call it bad karma?
The main problem is that we cannot actually see the results of karma. If someone does evil deeds such as stealing, he may think that the result is very good, very enjoyable, as he quickly gets some money without working hard at all, but that is not the result of karma. The result of stealing is getting one's own property stolen, or being reborn in hell after death, or, at the very least, being born into a poor family in a future existence, when one will have to work very hard just to get the basic needs of life. Such results are obviously not good — they are not desired by anyone.
A bad person will abstain from making bad karma only out of fear of punishment by the law, a good person will abstain due to fear of blame by others, self-blame, or fear of karmic retribution. A wise person will abstain due to desire for mental and moral purity, which is a supportive conditon to gain realisation of the Dhamma. That is, he will abstain from stealing, and instead practice generosity because he sees the benefits that derive from non-attachment.
The sorrow
(domanassa) that arises from remorse on doing evil, or the gladness
(pīti) that arises from non-remorse on doing good, are not the results of karma either. They are conditioned by consciousness
(citta).
Here he rejoices, hereafter he rejoices.
In both states the doer of good rejoices.
He rejoices, he exults
perceiving the purity of his own deeds. (Dhp v 16)
Here he laments, hereafter he laments.
In both states the evil-doer laments.
“I have done evil,” he laments.
He laments again, having gone to a woeful state. (Dhp v 17)
In general, the results of karma come in later existences (hereafter).
Only in
a few exceptional cases does karma bear fruit in this very life. When a criminal gets caught and punished for his crimes, that is also not the result of karma, but a result of the actions of others.
In some countries, people are stoned to death for adultery; in other countries it is not a criminal offence at all — at most it will result in public humiliation, or divorce procedings, which may prove very costly, but that does not mean that it is without karmic consequences.