Karma never loses or misses an address. Whatever we do or what we ever did, comes back to us in compounded terms.

Now definitely there are two sides to this. Whatever little good we did, we definitely want that good to stratospherically return to us. But for the bad, we are never ready to face the consequences.

Looking from the other side however this ‘return of the bad’ is the burning hope for those to whom the bad was done. And arguably it is natural to feel so.

When someone was true and sincere in a man-woman relationship and the person was dumped for no fault of his or her own, isn’t it natural for that the person who suffered to feel animosity and wish greater suffering for the person who caused the heartbreak?

Would the person whose face and body have been permanently scarred by acid, not nurture tremendous hatered for the perpetrator and wish him or her atleast similar or greater pain?

Would not the loved ones of a murdered victim wish gruesome death of the murderer?

Even if we do not scale these extremes, and look around for ‘everyday examples’ say when a boss routinely humiliates a subordinate publicly or even otherwise, mostly for non-issues , it is apparently hard to blame this person when he/she rejoices at the boss’s sudden hospitalisation or any other mishap or at the very least the boss tastes his own medicine from his superior.

We are all humans with our own parcel of frailties. It is our primal instinct to love ourselves. Each one of us has ego albeit the proportions are different. So when we are deeply hurt, our self-respect is plundered , the humiliation threatens our highest level of endurance we do develop animosity or intense hatered against the person(s) causing us suffering. Without an exceptional spiritual inclination where we philosophise that it is our own ‘karma’ returning us the favour, in majority of the cases our intense abhorrence is pinpointed quite obviously on the perpetrator rather than our own selves. The memory of us inflicting similar sufferings in the past years or as far back as in the past life escapes us soundly in most cases.

Consequently the powerful among us hit back, the sharp minded plots for a convenient time and the weak pray earnestly for a ‘natural retribution’ pinning it as their last hope. Sometimes the ‘natural retribution’ snowballs into ghastly outcome (s) for the perpetrator much beyond the wildest imaginations of the victim or his or her kin. And then if the victim or his or her kin is lucky enough to be watching it, modicum of peace is restored.

Large number of times, the perpetrator suffers nil for the sin caused. Very few among us can hold the patience for the wrong to bundle up and inevitably come crashing if not today or tomorrow, then long day or lifetimes after. We dive into depression, lose our hope in justice and eventually lose whatever little is left of our lives after the disruption. When things are not happening as we want them to, it is truly difficult to go on believing patiently that karma will deliver and nothing is truer than that.

Natural retribution is true, even if not always immediate.