Understanding Merit and Its Impact on Life : หน้า 93/115

MERITS Everybody wants to be rich, beautiful and smart. Nobody wants to be poor, ugly and dumb. But how come some people are born lucky and other are not? The answer is because of ‘merit’, or the lack of it. What is Merit? Merit (punned) is the product of good deeds. Merit is a form of positive energy that is created whenever a good deed is performed: mentally, bodily or verbally. Merit is the force that causes one to be pretty, smart, rich, famous, or fortunate, whichever the case may be. Merit also means virtue, goodness, happiness, pureness, and fullness, all of which result in ‘good karma’. If you have done good deeds in the ‘past’ you will find yourself in a happy situation in the present, and in the ‘future’. The ‘past’ is broken down into two stages: the ‘near past’, which took place during this life time; and the ‘far past’, which took place in the previous life times. The ‘future’ can also mean the future in this life time and the future in the lives thereafter. Different types of good deeds bring different types of good results. For example, if you have done plenty of charitable giving in your past life, you will end up being a well-to-do person in your present life. The more good deeds you have done in the past, the better off you will be in the future.