Manipulating The Law Of Action

Human laws can be adjusted, manipulated and even ignored by some, but no
one can do the same with the Law of Action or Karma. On the physical level,
there is no time interval between an action and its reaction. If I throw an
object in the air, it falls back immediately with the same force. With the
Law of Karma, however, there can be a delay between the action and its
result or fruit. The seeds of certain actions (negative or positive) bring
immediate fruit. Others can take years or even many births to bear fruit.
If I eat too much ice-cream, I will see the result or karmic effect of the
negative karma of greed within a space of ten-fifteen minutes in the form
of a headache or after two days in the form of a cold and flu. This is an
e.g. in which we realize the working of the Law of Karma, we realize
clearly the cause and its effect, but on a subtle level, when we see the
effects of actions, we do not realize that the cause may have actually been
in a previous life. There is a total connection between the cause and the
effect.

When we analyze a natural calamity such as a major earthquake that uproots
buildings and trees, overturns vehicles and kills thousands of people. The
physical cause may be tectonic activity associated with faults inside the
earth's surface but at the same time, we realize that such a calamity could
have its roots in a process initiated by human beings a few hours, days or
months ago - an e.g. being testing of nuclear weapons. On a personal level,
I can say that there is nothing which happens to me for which I am not
responsible. Whether I remember what I did to make it happen or not,
whether I realize it or choose to ignore it, I am ultimately responsible.