CHAPTER 1: What is Karma And Why Should You Know About It ?🔗

Many would have heard the word karma. Each one has some understanding of what it is based on what one has read in books or heard from others. Karma needs to be understood clearly because it is the basis of the cycle of life and death. It is the basis of blissful living.

Karma is a Collection of Unfulfilled Experiences Karma is a collection of unfulfilled experiences that stay and constantly pull individuals to fulfil them. These unfulfilled experiences reside because one did not do certain actions with intensity and depth. Anything that one does and experiences intensely and deeply will always leave the individual's system. It will be liberating. However, any experience that one did not go through completely, through which one did not have complete fulfilment, that did not get full energy, attention and awareness, remains inside as karma. Hangovers are karma.

Are we fully conscious of every action we engage in? Are we aware every moment of our lives?

A small story: A man was travelling by cab to the airport. The cab driver was driving very fast even around corners and sharp turns. The passenger was getting terrified with his driving. Finally, the cab driver seeing the terrified passenger, said, 'Why don't you do what I do when I take turns? Just shut your eyes!'

Karma Is A Stuck Thought Current Stuck thought current, suffocating thought current, suffocating thought pattern and suffocating thought trend is karma, which means in

The attitude, the bhāva forms the basis for the way to connect with life and with the world. The same attitude forms the basis for connecting with the self. That is what is called karma in Vedic tradition. karma does not come as a quantity. It comes as a mental setup.

For example, in a family - somebody is born and brought up, and the family eats non-vegetarian food. It is not that how many animals they killed, all that bad negativity comes to the son. But the habit of eating non-vegetarian comes to the son. Then karma only as a pattern comes, not as a quantity.

Even though one carries some karma, basically that individual is complete fulfilment, Wholeness. So any karma that has not been fulfilled cannot rest inside for too long. It will try its best to fulfil itself. It will drive again and again to go through the same activity so that it can be fulfilled. Any desire, any experience, which has not become complete in an individual’s system, will remain as karma and push again and again to make one go through the same experience until it is fulfilled. In life, one continuously takes decisions. These decisions are not only for the major events in an individual’s life; even the words that one talks continuously, the thoughts that one harbours continuously is the individual's own decision.

All individual’s thoughts, words and actions collectively contribute towards the individual’s Karmic bagagage because none of them give rise to fulfilment. When they do not give rise to fulfilment, they become Karmic baggage that pushes the individual to fulfil them. One thinks, speaks and does things without clarity, without fulfilment, with deep ignorance. When one does this, the individual's inherent nature, which is fulfilment, starts suffering. Therefore one’s own thoughts, words and deeds become the individual's karma and drive him to reach fulfilment in some way.

For example, In status-quo life one reads, sees and understands more from the brain than from the reality. Most of the time the spelling mistakes one makes while the individual reads a newspaper, or a magazine, or the IPod will be very funny, because the individual doesn’t read from there, he reads from the brain. One will suddenly realize, ‘Oh God,’ second time, third time when one reads, “Oh, this is what is there! But I thought this is what is there!” Even while seeing one doesn’t see the object to read from, he sees from the brain. In the status-quo of life, individuals are almost caught in the cobweb of thinking, which is a very suffocating karma pattern, mental pattern which does not let one relate with reality.

Samskāras reproduce themselves even without any further action from our part. The corruption that happens to the inner space is what called samskāra or engraved memories. They are the memories that go and sit in your inner space and pull you to go through the same experience repeatedly. They pull you to do the same kind of actions repeatedly, pull you to run through the same kind of thought patterns, even if you don't want to. Any samskāra that is operating in your conscious or unconscious layer is nothing but a hindrance to the fulfilment of your life. There is no such thing as good or bad samskāra. No samskāra is good. An inner space filled with samskāra is hell. An inner space without samskāra is heaven. Do not try to classify samskāra as good or bad. A samskāra by itself, by its very nature, is negative. By its very nature samskāra is depressive. Anything done out of samskāra will reduce everything to boredom and emptiness. Anything that happens with a deep understanding, just out of your pure inner space, always adds value to you. Anything done out of samskāra adds more and more bondage to you.

1 • There are some samskāras that get strengthened only by action, when you repeat the action. 2 • There are some samskāras that get strengthened just by receiving information with regard to them, when you receive input from the world about them. 3 • There are some other samskāras that need neither action nor information, just remembrance is enough and they get strengthened.

We collect these different levels of samskāras or engraved memories, store them in our system and expand them. Finally when driven by the desire we execute the action and it becomes karma. The power of desire drives us into finally buying that necklace. That is the action, the karma.

We have seven energy layers in our body. We store different samskāras in each of the seven different layers. :

The first layer is the physical body layer that you carry made out of flesh and blood. The samskāra related to chronic fatigue or tiredness is stored in the physical body. That is why when you try to do some exercise, a workout, or even simple walking; the first thing the body will bring out is tiredness.

But without bothering about these first level samskāra that are rising, if you continue to enter into the action, suddenly you will see that the same action brings energy out of you. If you start walking, in a few minutes your mind will suggest ten times, ‘I am tired. No, it is too much. We did enough! That is enough for today. Tomorrow we can do.’ But if you don’t bother about these samskāras and just go ahead, within a few minutes the same action will bring energy.

Chronic fatigue, which is a deep feeling to be in inaction, to be in rest or non-moving state, is stored in the physical body layer. Chronic fatigue is deeply related to the intense craving for rest. That this intense craving for rest brings diseases that will make you bedridden.

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Actually if you see any advertisement for resorts, especially beach resorts, it will show a beautiful beach, an easy resting chair and a picture of somebody resting and looking so relaxed. The moment you see that, immediately something starts happening in you. You feel that you too should also be lying like that, completely resting, totally in peacefulness, in deep peace.

That is what I call intense craving for tamas. Understand, if you really find that same beach, that same chair and lie down, you will not have that same peace that you visualized. Till you exhaust the tamas engrams, the lethargy engrams, that you carry in the physical layer you cannot rest. The moment you start resting, in a few minutes this saṃskāra will settle down and the next layer saṃskāra will come up. Even your decision to rest, if it is based on a saṃskāra, you cannot rest.

Tamas - Attribute of inaction. I can say that when the deep desire for vacation or the deep desire for rest, the chronic fatigue, leaves your system, ninety per cent of your spiritual journey is over. This first layer saṃskāra is the worst problem.

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The second layer is made up of the prāṇa movement inside your body. Prāṇa is actually the life energy that you take in when you breathe. Air is the medium that brings in prāṇa for sustaining your life. There are five stages in the movement of prāṇa in your body that constitute what is called prāṇic body or breath body layer. The saṁskāra related to desires are stored in the prāṇa, the breathing. That is why, whenever your desires are changing, suddenly you will see the breathing pattern will also change. For example, if you are caught by a strong desire like lust or anger, your breathing pattern will change. It will be chaotic. The more you enter into action based on those desires the stronger these engrams will become.

The next layer is the mental body layer. The continuous words or thoughts that rise in you are called inner chatter. The inner chattering that is continuously going on inside of you is the mental body layer. In the prāṇic layer, which is the second layer, you store your thoughts about how your life should be. In the mental layer, you store your engrams about how your life shouldn’t have been. This layer is built on guilt. If your energy is flowing continuously towards the future, it is desire. If your energy is flowing continuously towards the past, it is guilt. In the case of this layer, you don’t need to do the same action again to strengthen the engram. Just the information or remembrance about that action will strengthen the engram. For example, if you have seen the same place, or if you are seeing the same person, if you are facing the same situation, immediately those engrams will become strong and they will be awakened.

The fourth layer is the emotion layer. I can say that intense inner chatter that does not respond to your logical analysis is what we call 'emotions'. In this layer, you store all the visualizations related to pain. This fourth layer of pain is a very powerful layer. You don't need any action or information to strengthen the engrams.

Neither do you need action nor do you need information related to pain. Whenever your desires are changing, you will see the breathing pattern will also change. So you don't have to have the same pain again and again. You don't even need to receive information related to that pain. Just the engrams are enough. They can multiply. They can simply expand and multiply.

The silence you experience during deep sleep is the fifth layer. It is called the causal body layer. Even though there are engrams in this layer, you cannot do anything about them, because in the deep sleep, your mind cannot do anything. It is an unconscious layer. If in the first four layers you can reduce the depth of the engrams, saṃskāras, the fifth layer and the sixth layer will be cleansed naturally. The fifth layer will be cleansed if you clean the first four layers. If the fifth layer is cleansed, you will start experiencing the sixth layer more and more.

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In deep meditation, the joy and the intense vibrant silence from the thoughtless awareness that you experience is the sixth layer. The sixth layer is the meditation layer. If you are getting into the deep sleep layer more easily, it means the first four layers are clean. If the first four layers are not clean, then you will suffer more in the fifth layer. That is why, when you have more stress and load, a lot of suffering related to sleep starts happening in life.

The seventh layer is enlightenment

Reducing the engrams in the first four layers is making friends with your body. We don't realize how we abuse the body. If you are overweight, it is directly connected to some of these engrams. When you feel lonely and empty inside, you start filling the body. You start filling yourself with food or by drinking. Usually women choose food. Men decide to drink. Of course, in the modern developed society, you can't generalize. When you are feeling empty and lonely, you have to fill yourself with something. Every single thing happening in your life is directly connected to some engrams. Removing these engrams is making friends with your body, creating a deep friendship with your body. This is the best way to heal yourself.

Anything you wanted even once, you have to enjoy it. That is the law of life. One of the biggest problems of human beings: I am giving you the Why, What, Where, When, all you need to know about frustration. First you ask for the chair of CEO. Then you think, "Hmmm, even CEOs are under politicians. Let me ask for the seat of a politician." Then you find even politicians are falling at the feet of these Swamis. "This (Swami's seat) is the best seat." Then you ask for the seat of a Swami. If you had a subtle greed for this seat even once, in any one of the future janmas (lives) you will be made to sit in this and go through all the responsibilities you need to take for this, only then you will be liberated. If you decide for liberation, then if this seat happens, it will be so beautiful. But, if you act for greed, nothing wrong; it will not be denied to you; but you have to live it, you have to enjoy it.

REVEALED TO YOU TO MAKE YOU POWERFUL

Eighty per cent (who scored 80% marks) MBA (Master of Business Administration) graduates, pick up the file and become officers. Just "Pass" (who scraped through with the minimum marks required for passing the exam), pick up the files and get a government job and become bureaucrats. "Failed" (who have failed in the exams), somehow, for survival, get into politics and rule the bureaucrats!

So, first, you aspire for the CEO seat. Then, you aspire for the politician's chair. Then, you aspire for the Swami seat. But, when you are aspiring for the Swami seat, by that time your first aspiration will become reality, which is CEO chair. That is what the source of your frustration is.

When your aspirations are ripe, the happenings are not able to catch up, it is frustration. But you need to understand, happenings are because of your aspirations earlier. It has to come in the queue as you aspired.

Because your aspirations have changed, don't be frustrated about life. Everything you aspired for has to be enjoyed. I tell you, this one law of life if you understand; you will never curse the happenings of life.

You know, every happening now, you aspired for at one time, you craved for it at one time. This is the best news, greatest news I can give you. With this, you can come, 'Wow! I craved for this one day. So I am enjoying!'

Anything you crave for has to be lived. Yes, now your aspirations have changed, that does not mean what you aspired for can be dropped. It has to be lived so that you grow further. Even your aspirations getting matured is life saying yes to you. I tell you, if your aspirations are not getting matured, and what you wanted is happening, that place is called Deva Loka (World of Gods). Yes, what you always wanted, you will be enjoying, but your aspirations never get matured. Even if it is nectar, if your aspirations are not getting matured, you will be tired and bored.

Whether you visualized the scene of eating a pizza or rolling on the ground, or sitting in the CEO chair, or sitting in the politician’s chair, or sitting in the Swami’s chair, all visualizations are painted on a large canvas which is a huge Tathāstu of life. So, the canvas on which the painting of life is done, visualization of life is done, is Tathāstu – so be it.’ The whole Universe is moving with this sound of Tathāstu, Tathāstu, Tathāstu.

By the time you have moved to the politician’s chair, you already received Tathāstu for the CEO chair. So, that cannot be destroyed. You have to sit in that chair as per the interest and intention and intensity of Tathāstu. Then you have to move to the chair of politician as per your interest, intention and intensity of Tathāstu. By the time you move to the politician's chair, you might have already started desiring for Swami’s seat. But, the Tathāstu received is the Tathāstu received, and it has to be exhausted.

> Good news is everything you are aspiring > for now is getting Tathāstu from the > cosmos. So, understand this secret of life.

Any situation you are in, when you are frustrated, look in and find out, ‘What must be the best thing in this situation for which I have aspired this situation in my past?

Let me look from that context at this situation.’ You will see you are enjoying exactly what you wanted. Understanding the original context for which you aspired for the present situation, and looking at the present situation from that very context, and enjoying, celebrating it, is completion.

The moment you start celebrating the present happening, you are now qualified to make your updated aspirations into reality. If you celebrate the CEO chair, quickly you can jump into the politician’s chair.

If you celebrate the politician’s chair from the context why you asked for it, you can quickly jump into the Swami’s seat.

If you celebrate that from the very context you asked, understanding, you can quickly jump into Swami-hood itself.

Even karma is not binding if you understand the context. You feel karma is binding because your context has become matured, your aspirations have become matured. Aspirations getting matured should be celebrated, not to be cursed, not to be dealt with frustration.

Even your karma is not a curse on you. No, even your frustration cannot frustrate you any more, if you understand the frustration is caused by your aspirations getting matured. You want the CEO chair, you achieve it before your aspirations get matured towards the politician's chair, or towards the Swami's seat. Your life may look like heaven, but not enlightenment.

Aspirations not getting matured, but your past aspirations getting fulfilled, is heaven. I tell you, it is only the Bhuloka, the Planet Earth is the only loka where the aspirations getting matured is possible. That is why even gods and goddesses have to come to this plane for evolution. Evolution is possible only if your aspirations are able to mature.

Analyse your whole life with this one Truth. No frustration can frustrate you anymore. Frustration frustrates you only if you are from the wrong context.

When you aspired for the CEO chair, you must be having some context. But, when you sit in that chair, you forget the context and start aspiring for a politician's chair. Again, when you sit in the politician's chair, you forget the context why you aspired for it, and aspire for Swami's seat. That is why life continues to be frustrating. Nothing wrong in your aspirations getting matured. Something is seriously wrong in you forgetting the context of why you are having what you are having.

One more great news I have for you is, your aspirations getting matured does not necessarily need you forgetting the context with which you created your present. You can continue to celebrate your present and make your aspirations get matured. That space is Nithyananda Loka! Your aspirations getting matured does not necessarily require frustration, it is not pre-condition, you forgetting the context of your earlier aspirations is the problem.

When you forget the context why you aspired for it, will become perspiration even if you achieve it, because the context is forgotten. Forgetting the context is not a prerequisite for your aspirations to get matured. Knowing the context of the present, why you are having what you are having, why you aspired for it, remembering that right context, and celebrating what you are having, and your aspirations getting matured, can happen together. That is what I call completion.

Completion is celebrating your life happening as it is now from the context of why you aspired for it, and your aspirations getting further matured. For example, a Shudra aspires to be economically independent so that he can have his time for himself. A person who sells just his time is a worker. A person who sells products made out of his time and intelligence is a businessman. A person who sells certain concepts of security and protection is a politician, Kshatriya. A person who sells the concept of ultimate realisation is Brahmana

A Vaishya always feels jealous about Kshatriya. See, they don’t need intelligence. But they are ruling me! They are just giving some false sense of security, and they are ruling me!’

So, a businessman aspires to be the power centre, the power seat. He aspires, ‘Hey, these fellows don’t do anything, but they are ruling me. I should get into that seat. Then I will be so powerful!’ Yes, get into that seat. Then, so many enemies trying to attack you and take over your seat makes you forget the context you wanted that seat to feel powerful. And you are so powerless in that seat now!

The powerful seat always brings enough enemies which a businessman does not face in his life. Businessman may be a trillionaire; he will have small few enemies. But, if he becomes a power centre, even if he is a millionaire, he will have millions of enemies. So, once he forgets the context why he wanted this Kshatriya’s space, the politician’s seat, or protector’s seat, or power seat, he feels frustrated .

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Why did I get into this mess?’ Because, now he forgot the context why he wanted this, and his aspirations have already matured. To be “Just let me sit quietly, and teach, share knowledge, which is a harmless job”. By the time he reaches this seat, seat of sharing knowledge, if he remembers the context that he wants peace, great! If he forgets that context, again he will feel empty, ‘What is this? Till yesterday so many people used to come to meet me to get their work done when I was a politician. Now I am a Swami; and nobody comes to listen to me! Who listens to my knowledge sharing? Earlier I will just pass one order and execute what I wanted!’ Habituated to ‘hard power’, he can’t know the science of soft power. Soft power is built on patience; hard power is built on passion. Soft power stands on patience. Hard power stands on passion.

Meditate on the formula of frustration and realize even frustration cannot frustrate you. Your present is handed over to you because you got Tathāstu from life, it is not forced upon you for any other reason. You are not a sinner. The reason why you are having what you are having is not because you are a sinner, but because you wanted it from a different context.

> "Remembering that context, why you always wanted > what you wanted will bring you completion."

Not letting the frustration happen towards the present happening of your life, at the same time letting your aspirations getting matured, is saying yes to life. You are always given a very wrong advice: 'Only if you feel frustrated about the present, your aspirations will get matured'. You don't need to be discontented about the present to develop higher aspirations about the future.

> That is what I call saying no to life, > ‘killing the Atma’, Ātmahana

Believing frustration about the present is required for the aspirations to get matured is Ātmahana. Not knowing the context of the present created by you when you aspired for it is Ātmahana. Feeling frustrated when the present happens to you by forgetting it is your own request which was granted is Ātmahana. In every situation, whenever you perceive life is denying you what you want, don't give up, wait and look in, ‘What is being denied?’ Look into your perception; it will become fact, it will become Truth, it will become Reality.

Around the world, different researchers, scientists, are working on cosmological principles, physics and theoretical physics, trying to understand the Universe, the wonders of Existence, in the level of principle, philosophy, science and research, in every dimension, theoretically are trying to understand matter and anti-matter.

Anti-matter means, the thought currents, emotions, patterns, which are there in all of us, which is responsible for our functioning, but which is not perceived as material. Person who understands anti-matter for life, starts making the cognitions related to anti-matter. Unfortunately, you always recognize matter as existence and never recognize anti-matter. You don't give the due right to the anti-matter in your life and fail, land in accidents and collapse.

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If you cognize the higher reality about the anti-matter, your life will be a powerful manifestation of completion, fulfilment, and a higher form of existence. The first powerful cognition you need to cognize. Whatever you perceive as matter, existence of your life

Unmanifest continues to remain as the driving force of the manifest. If you are diabetic - how seriously you avoid sugar and other food items which can trigger diabetes, to the same level you need to avoid stress. Your higher cognitions matter, for the balanced life between matter and anti-matter. Raise your anti-matter inner space to the higher level of existence, simply your outer existence will raise to the higher level. If you try to rise by raising your matter level, you'll fail.

Question: Can karma be exhausted by doing charitable service?

No, it cannot. karma can be exhausted only through deep understanding, awareness and at least one glimpse of consciousness. The whole of mankind is swinging around result-oriented action. This is extended to service as well. At least in service, do not think of dollars or fame. Do not plan to impress. Do not plan to make your presence felt. Do the work for the work itself. Do not plan anything. Just do any service anywhere. This kind of service will infuse enormous power into your being. For at least half an hour a day do something selfless, without any thought of results or benefits for yourself. This service itself will become a meditation for you. It will inculcate in you the spirit of Collective Consciousness and lay the path to realizing the divinity underlying the service.

Even when we do selfless work, we must be careful not to bind ourselves to the results of our actions. Almost all those who do charitable service do it either because they cannot be without doing anything, or because they have been taught that service increases your points in the life-and-death cycle. Mostly, we do charitable work based on notions of earning brownie points that will do us good in our afterlife, whether we believe in rebirth or not. Or we would like to see ourselves in print or television and feel good about it. It is either fulfilling our need for attention in this world or in another world after death.

Unmanifest continues to remain as the driving force of the manifest. If you are diabetic - how seriously you avoid sugar and other food items which can trigger diabetes, to the same level you need to avoid stress. Your higher cognitions matter, for the balanced life between matter and anti-matter. Raise your anti-matter inner space to the higher level of existence, simply your outer existence will raise to the higher level. If you try to rise by raising your matter level, you'll fail.

The problem is you have been told that you will go to hell if you accumulate sins and to heaven if you gain merits. Society uses these concepts to control you. Only with the help of these concepts does it try to keep you under its control. It tries to control you through fear and greed - through fear of hell and greed of heaven. There is no good deed or bad deed that will come to your help at the time of death. There is no hell or heaven. Hell and heaven are both states of your mind, not locations in some distant future in the Divine's own land. When you think good thoughts, when you do good deeds, you feel good and you are in heaven. When you think evil, when you act evil, you feel evil and you are in hell. That is all. That is all there is to karma. This is the cosmic cause-and-effect principle. You are what your intent is. You become what your intent is.

If you create thoughts, words or actions that do not emanate from deep awareness but from a superficial layer, then you create karma that further propels you to fulfil those superficial thoughts, words or actions.

> Question: ‘If we are all cleansed of all karma, does > this mean that when we do something that causes > karma, do the consequences come much sooner if > not instantly? In a normal situation, what makes > instant karma happen? Why does certain karma > carry over for a long period of time?’

Your action does not produce any more karma. karma is nothing but the actions out of incompletion leads to more incompletion. For example, if you eat ice-cream out of incompletion, that becomes a deeper pattern. But after you do completion, the same ice-cream will not become a big pattern in you. It may just be in the level of habit, that is all; not pattern. The more completion space you carry, less impact you create as karma. For example, out of incompletions, deep greed arises. When you take ice-cream, the pattern you create is like a carving on the stone, which will stay forever. Out of completion, you complete with that pattern, why you start this ice-cream pattern, may be just to tell your friends you are rich, richer than others. So, you buy the big ice-cream, before you eat you show it to everybody, by that time it melts away! You would have done something like that. From there only the pattern would have started. After you complete, even if you eat the same ice-cream, the pattern you create will be like a writing on the water; it won’t even stay for a few seconds. And, one more thing you need to know, when you are in completion, if you do any karma, the consequences will be coming won’t be much; there won’t be any consequences. There will not be any consequences. But the space you carry will have consequences. That will happen immediately. Immediately it will happen. Instantly it will happen. So, this instant karma is nothing but the space you carry after the completion. The more incompletions you carry, Karmas reside in you, and you carry it over for a long period. Listen, carrying it over for a long period does not mean the effect comes very late. No! Effect is continuously coming! Continuously suffering. So, the instant karma, effect of karma, everything is based on the space you carry.

During our lifetime we get chances to reduce our karma. Do we get such chances of reducing karma between death and rebirth? Thank you.

No. Between death and rebirth either you are in a highly elated mood if you go through the conscious death, you are highly depressed if you go through unconscious death. The extraordinary elation or the extraordinary depression both spaces growth does not happen. Extraordinary elation is considered as heaven. Extraordinary depression is considered as hell. Neither in hell nor in heaven the conscious exhaustion of the Karmas is possible. You will not be able to exhaust the Karmas neither in hell nor in heaven as the space of the possibility for the mixture of both, possibility of the mixture of the both which is Bhūloka, the planet space, is required for your conscious growth. The space and the time between death and rebirth cannot be used for growing consciously. So anything needs to be done for the conscious growth needs to be done between the time of birth and death not between death and rebirth. If the body is left undisturbed the remaining Karmas will be transferred to the new body in the next 13 days. But if you give the organs part of the body to any research or science for any purpose, that does not interfere with the karma shifting process. Even if those organs are living in another body or being separated from your body and used for some other purpose, the karma baggage shifting process does not get disturbed. So organ donation does not interfere with your death process. The moment brain death is declared the parts of the body can be donated. It does not interfere in the karma baggage transferring process. When a death happens the individual reflection takes the next body within three kshaṇā. The karma baggage gets transferred in 13 days.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Question: I will not accumulate karma if I do nothing; do I accumulate or burn karma through action?

This statement, "I will not accumulate karma if I do nothing, is a myth. Because there is no such thing as doing nothing. You can't. You don't know that space. When you achieve that space, you will not be making this statement, "If I do nothing," you will make the statement, "if I be nothing." You can never be doing nothing if you are being something. Only if you are being nothing you can be doing nothing. So there is no such thing as doing nothing. So the statement, I may not want to even say it is myth or reality, it is wrong. The statement is wrong. If you make the statement, "I will not accumulate karma if I be nothing," it is reality, "if I do nothing," is a mistake statement. Statement, "I will not accumulate karma if I am doing nothing," is a myth statement.

Kumbh Mela is the space and energy. Landing into the place and time to raise you beyond your Karmas. The space and time supporting you by landing into the place and time to raise you beyond karma. To infuse that ferociousness, to break from all karma patterns. To explode beyond all karma patterns. I'll also give you one little secret. It's real secret. However you understand, understand. The Cosmos does not record anything other than violence. Means, only if you cause pain, karma gets recorded. Other than violence, nothing is recorded as karma. For example, somebody goes and steals two billion dollar from a multi billionaire and that fellow is loaded with trillions of dollars - he doesn't care. No time to err punish him. Come on! Let's earn more." He goes out, he doesn't bother - you don't get karma. And you go to a homeless guy and steal few pennies - that fellow rolls on the ground and cries. You get karma.

Question: Do I accumulate karma through action or do I burn karma through action?

If your context is moving towards completion, you burn karma through action. If your context is not towards completion, you accumulate karma through action. Whether you burn karma through action or accumulate karma through action is dependent on how you hold 'you', the context you set for you. Basically if you believe Cosmos has CCTV camera recording going on, you will be accumulating karma by action, because that kind of a faith will lead to that kind of a thought current and action flow. But if you understand, it has no CCTV footage recording going on, it has only an internal chip recording the audio, you will exhaust your karma through your action because you know where you need to work – is the thought current you are having not the action trend you are doing. The struggle is not supposed to be done to wake up early in the morning at 4:30, the struggle is supposed to be done to break the lazy thought current and boredom thought pattern. Unfortunately when you believe the CCTV footage, all your struggle is aimed at morning 4o clock instead of breaking the thought current of boredom, thought pattern of tiredness and thought pattern of tiredness and boredom. Even for your whole life, if you wake up early in the morning at 4:30, did not break your thought pattern, thought current of boredom and tiredness, you build a good habit not liberation. Habit is a habit... all of you know, in habit, if you remove the H, A BIT will be there; if you remove the A, BIT will be there, if you remove B, IT will be there. Only if you remove the "I' the thought current, it will die. Even if you work the whole day in Microsoft, do not complete with that thought current of feeling bored and tired, understand, you will just feel stuck and feel exploited, sucked and die by 45. After 45, if something is left in your body that may be much worse than death. If you break the boredom and thought current and bring activism, you have experienced activism and go on working, you may be working till the last moment of this "body's existence" and still will not be tired, retired, bored. If YOU are bored, bore yourself and your thought current. If you are bored, drill, bore the thought current of feeling bored.

Hindus have started feeling, there is something seriously wrong with the Varnāshrama Dharma system due to this false narrative. A small kid goes to Guru and asks the Guru, "Please admit me into the Gurukul" and Guru asks, "Which community, which Varna you are from?" not caste; understand, "Which Varna?". There is a big difference between community and caste, big difference between Varna and Jaati. "Which community are you from? Which ecosystem are you from?" He says, "I do not know my father's name". The Guru says, "Please go and ask your mother and come back." He goes to his mother and mother says, "I do not know the name of your father who fathered you". The boy comes back to the Guru and tells, "My mother says she does not know who fathered me". And Guru's eyes have blissful tears and he says, "Hey, you are speaking the truth. You are a Brāhmanā Varna. Please join the Brāhmanā Varna class". This story has multi-layer meaning; means, based on the karma, the Guṇa, the community was divided. Based on the birth, Jaati was decided and there were multiple Jātis in one community. In one Varna, multiple Jātis existed. For example, the Brahmana Varna, Kshatriya Varna, Vaishya Varna, Shudra Varna had multiple Jaatis inside. The Brahmana Varna had multiple Jaatis inside. For example, in the modern day, in India how this forward community seal is given and the whole Brahmana Varna is denied, all the resources of the nation. The whole forward community, all the communities classified as a forward community, we can take it as Brahmana Varna. Vaishyā Varna is different and Vaishyā Jātis are different. Jātis are usually from birth, Varnas are usually based on karma. Multiple Jātis unite and become one Varna; same way, the Āshrama Dharma.

Q

The recent earthquake in Nepal Swamiji which killed a lot of people, I have got two questions about that. First question is, is that an accident or is that a Karmic cleansing of the people. Is that their karma or is that a pure accident? First thing is that. Second thing is when the earthquake was happening we felt quite pain and bit of grief about that...is that a stress or is that a normal thing for human beings to experience?

No actually when you are born in a country like Nepal and all the geography gets connected to your very DNA. So you feel that there is a connection. The geography gets connected to your DNA. That is true. And second thing, whether it is an accident or a Karmic cleansing, I will say it is both put together. There is certain amount of Karmic cleansing need to happen there and in this Karmic cleansing few people who are not required also are dead.

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Q | So innocent people also get killed Swamiji?

Yes because there is such big Karmic cleansing happens, there are few who are not directly involved also are dead. | A

QUESTION

So what happens to them Swamiji after they die?

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Question: Will a human be born as an animal, bird or insect or can he be born as human being in the next birth?

This is a very good question. Let me boldly declare this truth and clear all the myths that have been surrounding this one question on the wheel of karma! When a human being takes birth as human once, he will continue taking the life of a human unless he has acted against his consciousness like torturing others or committed violent acts in physical, mental or verbal forms against Existence which is in the form of the Guru, nature and human consciousness. The intensity of these acts is what gets recorded in the cosmic Karmic record. Understand, it is not the act itself but the intensity of the act that matters. When a person spends his whole life in lower consciousness, he can be reborn as an animal. For example, if he spends his whole life in only eating or sleeping, he can be reborn as an animal. If the person has not experienced even once in his lifetime, the unique human qualities like falling in love, seeking enlightenment, he will be reborn as an animal, because he had a human body but the channels of human experience have not been awakened.

I should say, more like animal bodies, the worm...that level of bodies, that is where the karma starts getting recorded, not as plants. As plants you don't build muscle memory and bio-memory. A

Question - Dear Swamiji, can initiation by an enlightened master in this life free me of Karmas accumulated in past lives? How?

First thing in initiation by an enlightened master is not an ordinary action. It is like you asking: I have collected cotton for the last 300 years. How can this cotton be burnt by the small matchstick you will put now? Whether you accumulated it for the past 300 years or 3000 years, a match stick will just burn it. Whether you accumulated Karmas of 1st layer or 2nd layer the quality of initiation will just burn away past Karmas. You are from Hyderabad. Some of the palaces there are very old. The underground cellars there have not seen light for the past thousand years. Can you say the darkness in those cellars has been there for a thousand years? How can I bring light with just one match stick or torch? Darkness may be thousand years old, light may be just one second old, it still removes darkness. Initiation can destroy any karma accumulated in past lives because it awakens the fire in you which burns all Karmas like cotton. By very quality, by very nature, karma does not have a positive existence. Darkness is nothing but lightlessness so when you bring light, it disappears. Same way karma is nothing but consciousless-ness. When you bring consciousness it disappears! I tell you the moment you bring money your feeling of richness will disappear you will feel poverty. The moment you bring equipment and tools to make your life comfortable you will feel the suffocation and life being bound, the moment you bring sex, love will disappear. I tell you if you are empty handed, you will not be feeling poverty. Just have ten billion dollar, you will feel you are poor. Live without electricity and a car you will not feel you are poor, t by the chemicals. When free from all the past live Karmas you accumulated. People ask me if they will contract another person's karma when they give advice, or touch them! They feel they are very vulnerable to other people's karma. They wish to know how to get rid of it. Understand, you cannot contract karma from somebody else; anyways you have enough of your own! So do not bother about catching karma from another person.

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