CHAPTER 3
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Karma Theory Decoded
Karma Theory Decoded
Just yesterday I was looking at a
beautiful one liner on Math – one
guy is saying I don’t think Math is a
science, it is a religion. The other
guy says how. This guy says all
these equations are like miracles.
You take one number, and another
number gives the third number.
How can you prove the third
number happens? It is because
you believe it. That’s all!
If you are a religious atheist
you are a math atheist. Math
needs to be understood with
utility value. For example, if
you say 2 plus 2 is 4, you can
say how can this be true? But
when you believe this, you can
run your life smoothly.
Complications are reduced.
You will know you will fall and be prepared. Something will be clear. It will make life more comfortable, more livable.
Religious understandings
are here to make life more
liveable! The constitution of
the cosmos comes for
compassion. It is for life. It is
not against life.
So the law of karma, the
cause and effect truths
needs to be looked at like
how you look at math.
Based on the utility
value you need to
look at this and
understand that this
is truth and start
believing.
Mathematicians have
done a lot of calculation,
analysis, and the best
beliefs which makes life
simple and makes your
life more liveable.
Make these formulas and present them. Same way the inner scientists do research. They make all these theorems, formulas present it to us as law of life. So the essence of what I wanted to share with you - the sacred secret is karma theory is the math of cosmos.
CAUSING PAIN IS RECORDED AS KARMA
The Cosmos does not record anything other than violence. Means, only if one causes 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, He goes out, he doesn’t bother – the individual doesn’t get karma. If one goes to a homeless guy, steals a few pennies and that fellow rolls on the ground and cries. The individual gets karma. You see when the cosmos decided to manifest as this Universe and as all of us - the only principle it declared is “let Me become many to celebrate Me.” It means only one principle “let us all coexist,” that’s all. Only if that is broken “let us all coexist” karma comes, other than that nothing is karma.
Law of the land does not apply in the law of the Cosmos. These two are different. Don’ts of the law of the land and understandings of society - all that no way touches the law of the Cosmos. See the Divine, Paramaśiva, he becomes many, he declares “let Me become many to celebrate Me” - so more and more celebration caused becomes good karma. More and more pain caused becomes bad karma. That’s all. An individual may give a billion dollars to somebody and might not be happy about it - one doesn’t get good karma. An individual may be giving a penny to somebody and he is just praising and glorifying, he is just ecstatic, then the soul gets good karma. It is the experience caused matters, not the other money or quantity or quality or the work or any of that done.
EFFECT OF DEBT AND ENMITY IS KARMA AND CAUSES MORE KARMA
Karma is not just an effect of
incompletion - karma can be the
cause of more and more
incompletion. Once the
incompletions start, either you
have to be moving towards
completion or more and more
incompletions. You cannot just
keep quiet.
What is incompletion? For
example, you are sitting here right
now, hearing me speak, but you
are not listening to me, you are
thinking—‘I have not done this, I
have not done that, this has not
happened, that has not happened,
I am restless’–that is incompletion.
If you have such incompletions
inside, be very clear, you will not
be listening to me. You may be
sitting here out of compulsion or
some other reason, but you will not
be listening to me. And when you
don’t listen, more and more
incompletions happen. It is a
vicious circle
If you are sad, watch and meditate
on your misery. Observe how you
created the sadness. See how the
root of your misery lies within you.
The mind constantly tells you
everybody else is responsible for
your misery, spouse, friend, boss,
or the man down the street. It
always goes on throwing
responsibility on somebody else.
A small story: There was an ad in
the newspaper for a professional
that ended with, ‘We want a
responsible man for the job.’ A
man applied for the job. In his
interview, he introduced himself
saying, ‘I think I am just the
person for your job.’ The employer
asked curiously, ‘Why?’ The man
replied, ‘Wherever I worked,
whenever anything went wrong,
they told me I was responsible.’
Be very clear, nobody except you
is responsible for what you feel,
what you do. Nobody can make
you suffer without your silent
permission. Once you understand
that whatever happens is from
deep inside you, you will suddenly
see things changing. Take full
responsibility for yourself and see
how you become integrated in
whatever you do. When you stop
blaming others, when you
understand that you are
responsible for everything, you
will become more and more aware
of every action, every thought of
yours.
That awareness is enough. You will
act intelligently. If you want to be
sad, you will be sad. Nothing
wrong with that just is total in
that sadness. If you feel there is
no need to be sad and you want to
be happy, be happy. That’s all.
KARMA DECIDES THIS LIFE, YOUR NEXT LIFE AND LIVES AFTER THAT
The totality of all the past
decisions is the present moment.
Now, applying the same logic, the
totality of present decisions will be
the future. This is the whole karma
theory: the totality of all past is the
present, and the totality of present
is the future. karma theory is
nothing but establishing a right
cognition between us and the
World and the Divine.
The time you spend with a thought
pattern is a season of your life,
parva. Like how you use the word
teenage period, adolescent, youth,
man, all those words. The time you
spend with one thought pattern is
the season in your life. The time
you spend with one thought
current is your life.
Once the life force leaves the body,
within three Kṣaṇa, it chooses the
next body. At the time of death the
three most enjoyed experiences in
that lifetime stand out as one’s last
thoughts. The choice of the next
body arises from the mind-set
based on these three experiences.
These three thoughts will be based
on one from each of the total
karma (Sañcita), this birth karma
(Prārabdha) and gathered karma
(Āgāmya). Based on this, the
Prārabdha karma will take shape
for this birth.
Practicing spiritual life solutions in
one’s lifetime will reduce the
gathered Sañcita karma of that life
because these understandings will
help one to live with awareness.
Meditation helps to reduce the
Prārabdha karma. It acts not only
upon the conscious and physical
levels but also has the capacity to
penetrate and clean the
unconscious on a physical, mental
and being level. However, the
largest balance in the bank of
karma, the total Sañcita karma, can
only be dissolved through the
Guru’s grace. The more these three
Karmas are reduced, the less the
constraints of choice for the next
body. Since each of the three
Karmas will dictate a
corresponding intense experience
to be lived, the next body will need
to provide a space for these
experiences to be lived. It is like
this. If I say, ‘Let me meet a person
who can speak English,’ I have
more choices than if I say, ‘Let me
meet a person who can speak
English, Spanish and German.’
Similarly, if you have all the three
types of karma, of this birth,
gathered and total, there are more
constraints on your next birth.
For example, the desire influenced by your total Sañcita karma may be, 'I want to be beautiful.' The desire influenced by your karma of this birth, Prārabdha, may be, 'I want to be rich.' The desire influenced by your gathered or Āgāmya karma, may be, 'I want to settle down in USA.' It is more difficult to get a body for the life energy's next birth that will lead to the satisfaction of all the three desires within the short gap of three Kṣaṇa. So, it ends up choosing a body that satisfies the strongest desire amongst the three desires. The combined desires, the mindset, with which the life energy leaves the previous body is the Vāsanā, the seeds of desire.
These three desires, these
three thoughts will be seen
in one glimpse in three
Kṣaṇa, as one Vāsanā . The
Vāsanā is like a television
channel and the body that
attracts the Vāsanā is like
the television set tuned to
this channel.
The Vāsanā and the body that matches the Vāsanā attract life energy. Just like a television set tuned to the satellite channel's frequency receives the corresponding electromagnetic waves, in the same way, the Vāsanā is attracted by the body. Till you are liberated from the need for muscle memory, you will continue to create muscles for you. That is what is karma. If you have some pleasure to be achieved through muscles, or revenge to be taken, with beings who have muscles, if you have a job in this plane you will always assume a muscle, muscle-based body. Part of you exists always as body, as long as you have a need to do something in this plane, human plane.
The life energy, the spirit, departing from the previous body enters the new body that is selected as that body leaves the womb of the mother. It enters the body in the birth canal. The darkness of the causal layer that it left from the previous body corresponds to the darkness of the mother's birth canal. Since the body has been prepared by the energies of the parents, the life energy chooses the combined energies of the parents based on the desires, the Vāsanā, the mental attitude, with which it leaves the previous body. So the parents do not choose the child. It is the child that chooses its parents.
Now, of the three types of
karma, if one of them is gone,
the choice constraints are
fewer and the life force can be
more focused on the choices.
Cleaning the gathered Āgāmya
karma and this birth’s
Prārabdha karma can be done
by the individual by
understanding about life and
by meditating. The Guru’s
grace will reduce the total
Sañcita karma
Once the total Sañcita karma is
cleansed, there is no reason to
take another body. Then, if the
next birth still happens, it is for
no reason but out of
overflowing joy and bliss. The
birth is thus chosen
consciously because there is no
pull of karma. The life lived is a
reason less play of an avatar or
incarnation.
You happen in the planet earth to
exhaust certain amount of karma.
For all of us, our total Sañcita
karma initially was a divine play.
For an Incarnation, it is still a
divine play as he has no karma at
all. We took birth out of choice.
We forgot our Prārabdha karma,
started gathering Āgāmya karma
and expanded the total Sañcita
karma. Then, to exhaust the
increased load we had to take
another birth where we collected
more desires and karma. This is
how the cycle of life and death
continues.
Your gathered Āgāmya karma is
your bondage. The total karma and
this birth karma can be a divine
play. The result of this play is the
karma of that birth. After birth, if
we play without gathered karma,
it will continue to be a divine play.
The bondage comes with gathered
karma.
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