Further on Karma🔗

So understand, karma is simply the effects of thoughts, words and deeds that stem from deep ignorance and cause you to again and again tread familiar patterns of misery. The way to break this cycle is to tune into the clicks received and live in an elevated zone of consciousness. When you don't understand this basic science, you start misinterpreting the whole thing.

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.

Either by touching or by giving advice or by close physical contact or physical proximity, karma can never be contracted. You may acquire the mental setup of that person in close proximity, if you are continuously around him, but never his or her karma. Of course, you have to be mentally strong so that you don't contract his or her mental setup. That is dangerous. But if you are solid within yourself through the clicks that have happened in you, even this won't affect you in any way.

Understand one more thing: I do not interfere with your karma. Like how when the sun rises the darkness disappears on its own, in the presence of the Master the karma gets burnt. Karma, like darkness, has got only negative existence. It does not have a positive existence. What I mean is, you cannot take it and throw it out like how you can take this mic and throw it out. Just like how lightless-ness is only called darkness, karma is just lack of inner light in us, or in other words, ignorance. It is energyless-ness. Any karma can be burnt through remembering the clicks and living life according to the understanding through the clicks.

Karma is nothing but the faith of your fear in it. At least the fear emotion is solid. Karma does not exist even to the depth of your fear. Fear will go to the depth of your causal body – the energy layer which you fall into in deep sleep. If you sleep with a knife above your head, you will automatically touch the causal body because of the intense fear. Karma does not have even that much depth. It is just your own doing and can be undone with understanding and awareness, and a conscious decision not to incur more karma through thought, word or deed.

It is very important to live a life only exhausting karma and not accumulating more. It is this idea that is promoted in the Vedic marriages. In the Vedic marriages, the couple takes a vow to put their spiritual life ahead of their married life and live together. It is called vanaprastha ashram. It is simply deciding to co-operate and exhaust each other's karma without causing any further karma for each other. Normally in marriage, the man will operate from lust and the woman from fear. The man exploits the fear aspect of the woman and the woman exploits the desire aspect of man. This vow states that they will work only towards exhausting each other's karma and not towards exploiting each other or multiplying their karma.

Someone asked me, 'Swamiji, how do we overcome karma?'

Till now, what we discussed was a preventive measure for incurring karma. As a curative for karma, I will give you a simple technique. Right from this moment, try and remember all the incidents in your life. Start going backwards from this moment to your childhood days. Remember what you can. Do not bother about what you cannot. You must realize that what you cannot remember is only a hangover. It has not touched you deeply. That is why it is not retained in your memory. Try this technique for a year. Re-living is a wonderful way of relieving.

Our second level Life Bliss meditation program – the Nithyananda Spurana Program (NSP) is focused on just this method of exhausting one's karma. It is like a complete spiritual bath in the presence of an enlightened master.

Understand one thing: Masters as such have no karma. They have nothing to achieve, nothing to gain. Then why should they be in the body? It is only for the love of humanity. They take a human body just to liberate more beings from the cycle of life and death, from the grips of karma.