Karma Chameleon

No, this blog is not about Boy George's famous song, though it happens to be one of my favourites. Don't know why he named it that anyway - the lyrics have nothing to do with karma.

I guess I titled my post thus because that's how I view karma - as some kind of chameleon that changes colors to suit the occasion ; red and fiery, black and menacing, blue and fluffy, white and peaceful...

I am a Hindu who has been brought up since early childhood to believe in the concept of karma. Basically, what I was taught was the concept of an eye for an eye - you do something to hurt someone and get away with it, don't breathe easy, karma will make you pay, either sometime in this life or atleast in some other life.

I guess that's how most hindus and Buddhists view karma - as some sort of vengeful mechanism that spans across even lifetimes to come haunt us. But my interest in karma (you could almost say obsession) started when I stumbled upon the Karma Handbook by Trutz Hardo and bought it on a whim. I was absolutely fascinated by the stories the book detailed, it was a compilation of several case studies by a German Regression Therapist as well as his views on what the case studies entailed.

Regression Therapy is a fairly new form of psychiatric therapy that is gaining widespread recognition across the world. It basically acts on the presumption that we have lived before, not once but countless times and all those experiences are stored up in our subconscious mind. so some unexpainable fear or phobia or mania or just plain attitude could perhaps be the direct result of one's life millenia ago as a Roman Emperor or Greek Slave (and everywhere in between).

For a while after that, I was obsessed with finding a regression therapist to help me fight all my woes (I became convinced that they were all rooted somehow in my past lives) but I couldn't find any. Sigh, Sri Lanka must be the only country without its own resident regression therapist, shame!

But that started me on the track of reading as mush as I could about the stuff, I just can't seem to get enough of it. The more I read, the happier I get with my own life as I am able to perceive why certain things are the way they are and why certain things happen the way they do!

I still wish I had access to a therapist but atleast now I am more accepting of circumstances beyond my control and more careful and thoughtful in dealing with those within my control.

I first created this blog some months ago, when we had some special computer classes at our college and the instructors asked us to start blogging.

My first blog was about an annoying classmate who was totally without a sense of humor.

He threatened to wreck havoc if the blog went on kottu so. . .

I kept the blog dormant all this time and then my mind woke up from a long sleep like sleeping beauty all of a sudden (wonder which prince kissed it?) and decided to reactivate the blog.

You could call me a 'spiritual aspirant.'

I can't really claim to be truly spiritual but I try my best to be a good person, believe in the principle of karma and above all God.

I don't know why but it seems the 'in' thing for most young people to try to seem materialistic instead of spiritual. No one wants to be known of as a 'goody goody'. Well too bad, that's what I am trying actively to be.