Such a contradictory title many wonders, but when we deeply understand the concept of Karma, it has a scientific foundation. This makes me further analyze the spiritual/scientific concept that has been used by the people.
Many of you might not agree with my views however, my basis is a result of the understanding of the concepts that helped me to find the similarities between them.
In the chaos theory, Butterfly Effect is defined scientifically as “ the sensitive dependence on initial conditions in which a small change in one state of a deterministic nonlinear system can result in large differences in a later state ” and common parlance as “Small change which is responsible for the cause of larger consequence”, even though this theory was for a different purpose, it still can be applied with human life and the environment. For example, a flap of a butterfly a week ago in the past shall become the reason for a tornado occurring today or in the future. This indicates a chain of events taking place interconnectedly, so the happening of an event is predetermined by some action that had taken place earlier. This concept is so huge that it has many applications in the practical world which are way out of our topic today.
The key ideology serves on the basis that everything is connected. For Example, happening is because of some other action in the past, or at the present and the results are consequences in the present or the future. So by applying the logic in more understandable terms of a human’s life, i.e. we all are responsible for our actions i.e. either bad or good. Let us take this into a more controversial discussion. Why so? I know a few who disagrees with my idea of comparing these two and a few who agrees with it. Let me see what you have in your mind in the comment section. Now if we shift our focus to a much popular belief around the world, i.e. Karma. Even though its known world wide, it originates from India.
Hinduism preaches the principle Karma. Most common among Indians, people born here are either taught in school or preached by the elders. It can be defined as the spiritual principle of “cause and effect”, i.e. like causes have like effects. Some people tend to act/behave in a good manner, help other and do other good deeds, since they believe the same will happen to them. They tend to believe that there are no coincidences in life, its all just the good deed at the right time. There are some misconception that the concept of Karma only deals with the deeds of the past life affecting the life in rebirth, however in reality it also includes the present deeds and its future effects.
Both the above concepts focuses on achieving the same objective, whether through science or spirituality. It sure sounds contradictory, like how science and spirituality? one may ask. Some famous scientists who believed in spirituality are Sir Isaac Newton, Sir James Clerk Maxwell, Sir Charles Darwin, Sir Albert Einstein and many others, big brains like them believed in both, why not us?, its not a compulsion but just another topic to think about.
To conclude that it doesn’t matter if you agree it on a scientific basis or spiritual basis, both points in the same direction, that it doesn’t cost you to be good to others.
