Taking revenge...., is a 'chain-reaction'

What is our immediate reaction, if we are wronged by someone? To take revenge on that person. We will start working on the scheme and would wait for the opportune time to execute our plan. Is this right? Whether it is right or wrong, this is what is done by most of us. This means that we don't trust God and His way of doing things. God takes care of all that, by way of 'karma'. "Karma" is nothing but the net result of one's actions. If you don't like the term 'karma' you can call it as 'nature'. When we do good to others, we will get back good things and the vice versa is also true. It is for sure.

So, there is no need for us to plot the downfall of the person who had caused us misery. 'Nature' will take it's own course, at the appropriate time. Time and God will take care of the revenge aspect of the perpetrator, on behalf of the victim.

Every day, we see in the news that someone has killed someone as an act of taking revenge for some wrong deed done by the deceased to the killer or his family. Then someone from the deceased's family will wait for the time to kill someone from the killer's family. This goes on as a 'chain-reaction'. Unless some right-thinking person from one of the groups comes along, this chain cannot be broken.

Many of our epics deal with revenge stories. Some of the Shakespeare's dramas (Hamlet, Julius Caesar) also depict the acts of revenge unleashed on various characters. Revenge is a universal phenomenon. Once a person takes revenge on a person, he feels satisfied and enjoys happiness. But it is a temporary feeling, because the other person will sooner or later would take revenge on this person. There is no end to this mad act.

We can witness the "acts of revenge" in most of the offices. A and B work on the same project under the project leader C. A does all the crucial work and B cunningly takes credit for all the work done by A. When the project is a success, C promotes B. A is then miffed. B is a part of another project now. A somehow gets access to B's work and puts a 'bug' in it. 'B' when he is about to present his work, gets the shock of his life. B is thrown out of the job by his team leader. B is waiting for a chance to take his revenge on A. With the help of his friends, B causes an accident-looking assault on A, thus paralyzing him. A, after recovering from his illness, plots to murder B. It is a fictitious account of what might happen in today's scenario. Is there an end to this story?

Let us be sensible and not fall a prey to revengeful feeling or act. Trust in God (or nature, as you might call it) and leave that to Him. Only then, the 'chain-reaction' could be broken for good.