Are you ready to bear consequence of your actions?

 In the telugu movie directed by legendary Bapu-Ramana named “Sampoorna Ramayanam” there is an excellently scripted scene that goes like below.

“Ravan, the King of Lanka, kidnaps Sita, wife of Lord Rama, when her husband is not around. Rama finding the misdeed, comes with monkey army to Lanka to fight Ravan. Ravan did not expect Rama to cross the sea and ready to fight him. So Ravan arranges a meeting with his ministers and kins to discuss strategy of defeating Rama. Ravan has a wise and good natured brother named Visbhishan.

Vibhishan questions Ravan “Brother, when you decided to kidnap Sita while her husband is away, you took the action without consulting anyone. Now when Rama who vowed to kill you, comes with his army crossing the sea,  you get terrified. When the consequence off your action comes to give its result, you are asking all of us for suggestion. Why don’t you decide for yourself how to deal with it, the same way you acted independently while kidnapping Sita”

This obviously made the King of Lanka furious and Vibhishan had to flee out of the kingdom is a different story.  The wonderfully scripted scene depicts that humans when they have face consequence of their evil deeds, struggle quite miserably to come to terms with it. They either try to avoid, escape, transfer that to others or blame others for their actions.

Every action comes with a consequence of some intensity that we would have to bear. Good actions have good consequences. A student who attends all lectures, who studies well, who prepares well for examination – would get the grades that he/she capable of.  A student who does not apply himself to studies – would suffer the wrath of examination through bad grades. Simple isn’t it?

If it’s so simple why is that lot of people fail to recognize this and indulge in irrational decisions?  People give in to sense gratification and unable to visualize the long term consequence the action would bring. Also they think they can get away with their evil deeds without having to face the consequence. Or they play victim card stating “I was immature and so didn’t realize the consequence would be this tough”.  In the epic novel Veyi Padagalu, there is a character named Rangamma who indulges in extramarital affair that eventually leads to suicide of her husband and losing all reputation. She transforms herself and asks her mentor the same question. Her mentor answers “A kid touches fire without understanding of the consequence, would the fire not hurt the child? Similarly whether you do a deed with or without giving enough thought to consequence, the result is certain that you are to bear the fruit.”

Also the consequence may not always be evident and traceable to the action. The student in above scenario might score by indulging in malpractice and think that he gotten away from the consequence of not studying. But then as he did not accumulate knowledge, that is needed for his job he would struggle at work. Or he might make huge loss in business that requires necessary fundamental abilities education imparts. So the consequence can come in many ways and at different stage in life. But it certainly would. Only intelligent folks can take cognizance of it and make good decisions in life.

There are certain group of people who through their shrewd and predatory nature, try to transfer the consequence of their actions to weak or innocent person. Through this they are committing another evil deed. Little do they realize that at some point in life they would face compounded result.