why are so many corrupt people successful ?

If karma works, why are so many corrupt people successful ?

Very beautifully explained!!!!

Once a king ordered his 3 ministers to take a bag and go to the forest and fill up the bag with fruits.

The 1st minister thought that since the king has ordered for collection of fruits, he must collect the best of the fruits in the bag.

The 2n minister thought that since the king is a very busy person, he may not look very thoroughly into the bag what has been collected and hence he collected whatever he could lay his hands. Thus his bag was filled up with a mixture of good and rotten fruits.

The 3rd minister thought that the king would see only externally how big the bag is and hence he just filled up the bag with all dried leaves and dust.

All the three ministers came back to the court with their respective bags.

The King, without even seeing what their bags contained, just ordered that now the three ministers must be sent to separate jails for one week, where they will not be provided with any food and they were only allowed to carry the respective bags wherein they had collected the fruits.

The 1st minister could spend the one week in the jail by eating the very nice fruits he had collected.

The 2nd could survive for some time with the good fruits in the bag and later he developed diseases by eating the rotten fruits he had collected.

The 3rd minister had nothing to eat and hence could not survive.

Moral of the story: we have to undergo the consequences of our own activities.“You will be suffering your own reactions after your karmas, any single karma you perform, you have to suffer for it. Good and bad, everything, you have to have this reaction. No doubt about it.

In Mahabharata, Anushasana Parva, it is said

“Amongst thousands of cows, the calf finds its own mother cow. Similarly the results of our past karma (deeds) when fully ripened, will find us without fail.”