you surely agree that we are in complicated territory here. Ved's 'Karm siddhant' & 'deh-tatva vigyan' are not simple, and what's more, here we have combined them together and trying to dissect them at one go.😆 Let's simplify all this as much as possible. Also, pay no attention to whether the example is in good or bad taste, just focus on what is being discussed. As it is, when it comes to giving cheesy examples to explain things, nobody can beat me.😆
Who is doing karm, how to decide, and how thoughts arising in 'mann' affect both physical & astral bodies? Let us say Mr. & Mrs. X are in their house. Mrs. X is cooking food, and Mr. X is sitting idle, staring blankly & doing absolutely nothing. If an observer is to erroneously equate 'karm' with 'physical work' he'll say Mrs X is doing work & Mr X is not. However, reality can be opposite. If Mrs X is preparing food like an automaton, her mind blank, just finishing off a routine work, she may not doing any recordable karm, though suffering physical exertion nonetheless. If however she is thinking while cooking that let me prepare food in such a way that it turns out tasty as well as healthy for all who eat it, it may be recorded that she did a satvic karm, because she did something for the happiness of others. (I am saying 'may' all the time because we cannot decide how a 'karm' will be classified.)
Similarly, mr X, though sitting idle, may be thinking that the new girl who has joined his office yesterday is just his type, and if he makes all the right moves, he can have a clandestine affair with her. If this is what he is thinking, he is getting tamsic thoughts recorded on his mann all the time he appeared doing nothing. Now these thoughts of Mr X will work at various levels. He'll make his physical body act in ways which his mann believe will get him that girl. These thoughts will make his mann more tamsic, & will increase the 'darkness' in his 'sanchit karm.' That is why people say, 'watch your thoughts, because sooner or later, you'll become like your thoughts.'
How karta gets trapped at multiple levels? Taking this example further, let us say Mr. X actually succeeded in his wish, i.e. he got the girl & cheated on his wife. This one 'act' can get mr. X in trouble, twice! When he cheated, even though nobody except him & that girl knew about the incident at that time, he broke all those promises he made to his wife at the time of their marriage, so regardless of his wife being clueless about his shenanigans, he has perpetrated a gross injustice upon his wife, and this again gets recorded as a grave tamsic karm against Mr X's name. Further, Mr X's luck failed him and sometime later, Mrs X came to know all about Mr X's 'official activities.' This knowledge causes her great mental trauma & sorrow, and as the 'karta' of the original act whose knowledge is now causing Mrs X so much pain, ANOTHER 'tamsic karm' gets noted against Mr. X's name! so what this example tells us is, Mr X did one act, but according to 'karm siddhant' he will suffer tamsic results sometime in future for TWO tamsic karms, one, he broke his promises to his wife, and two, he caused his wife to suffer trauma.
What is meant by 'equivalent result in opposite direction?' let's leave mr. X in peace, and return to the example of Bali which we have discussed once in this thread. Bali clobbered his younger brother Sugriva and was intent on killing him, but Sugriva luckily escaped to Rishimuk mountain, which was a no-go zone for Bali because of a curse. But then, Bali went to another level, caught Sugriva's wife and started treating her like his own! Now someone may say that if the mayic rule says every karm will produce an equivalent result of similar nature which 'karta' will have to endure, bali's tamsic karm should have resulted in someone else running away with bali's original wife!! But the thing is, bali through his tamsic actions caused pain to sugriva & his wife. The result of this is, bali will be made to suffer 'equivalent pain' in future, how to administer that pain is impossible to tell in advance. In this case, Shri Ram decided that what bali has done necessitates him getting death penalty, and a person who treats his younger brother's wife in this way may be put to death in any manner.
Finally, since there is no fixed time-period for the completion of a particular 'karm-phal cycle' a karm may bear fruit within moments or after thousands of year. That's why we see people all around us, when faced with any difficulty or tragedy, start abusing & cursing God, calling him biased and so on, or turn atheists, because they have no idea that these difficulties can be results of their OWN actions in a past they no longer remember. Even if someone is to suggest anything like that to them, they'll say all this is nonsense & they don't believe in these vedic concepts.
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