THEORY OF KARMA

 

The consciousness of mortal man is seen by spiritual masters to be identified with the three lower centers/chakras of the spine – coccygeal/muladhar, sacral/swadhisthan and lumber/Manipur, which operate under karmic law; whereas the liberated man rises above these lower centers and penetrates to the dorsal/anahata, cervical/vishuddha and Christ consciousness – agya centres. When the yogi’s consciousness reaches the Christ center of wisdom, the seat of universal Intelligence, he beholds his soul as a true reflection of the perfect Spirit, beyond all reach of ignorance and its companionate law of karma.

Each one of us are apportioned a specific number of breaths e.g. 56 million 850 thousand. Within these 56 million breaths are contained the Unresolved forces of our soul, which we call our prarabdha karma.

According to the scriptures, there are four kinds of actions and effects thereof:

1. Purushakara – present actions initiated by the power of free will, uninfluenced by compulsions of past karma.

2. Prarabdha – actions or results arising from the influence of past actions. These influences are antagonistic to man’s free will; they serve in large measure to shape his physical and mental development and to determine his environmental opportunities (family, nationality, success ration). There are two kinds of prarabdha karma:

(a) fruits of past actions that are now operative in one’s life; e.g., the present body(result of past karma),

(b) accruing fruits of actions, seeds not sprouting at present in the individual, but ready to sprout at any moment in the present lifetime under the encouragement of suitable circumstances. It is this type of prarabdha karma that is operative when a man suddenly finds some unexpected change in his life – from good to evil or from evil to good, or some surprising enhancement of either good or evil – according to the nature of the past karma that has just found some available channel for outward expression.

3. Pararabdha – unsprouted seeds of past karma that are reserved for outward manifestation in some future embodiment; also, those actions yet unaccomplished but already subtly set in motion by the sanskaras (impressions) of past habits, and which will come to growth either in one’s present life or in a future incarnation. In constant succession, every action begets a new action, legacy of its offspring impression. Often repeated, these sanskaras form habits that automatically impel the thinking and behaviour of their captive.

Thus are the past and future intertwined and inescapable as woven by the above three forms of action and their karmic effects.

4. Prahadara – actions accomplished after the yogi has ignited the fire of wisdom, thus destroying the seeds of past karma and roasting any potential seeds of present and future actions, causing them to fall away in ashes. As roasted seeds do not germinate, so a burnt rope may appear to bind, but falls away in ashes.

The liberated man becomes free from the effects of all four forms of action. He acts only by the guidance of his intuition-turned free will, finding that the stored-up seeds of all good and bad past karma are consumed in the fire of wisdom. The results of past action do not touch him, even as dewdrops slide off the lotus leaf. In other words, the yogi does not perform his present actions through the influence of stored-up fruits of past actions as does the deluded man. The yogi reigns his life into God’s hands with full trust that He will make a better job of it than he himself has ever been able to do! Thus he becomes free from the results of all actions connected with the past, present, or future.

The yogi realizes his body to be a result of sprouting prarabdha (results of past actions); he is determined to rise above the necessity for future predetermined embodiments. He beholds his own body as nothing more than a motion picture cast on the screen of his consciousness by the Cosmic Beam. Discovering this secret, well-hidden truth about the body, the yogi laughs at the discomfited magician, Maya. He has seen through her “laws” of karma – nothing but brazen-faced tricks!

EUTHANASIA: Meddling with Cosmic Justice

Euthanasia: Meddling with Cosmic Justice

Ignorantia juris non excusat - Ignorance of law is no excuse. 

The legal principle applies to not only man-made laws of the world but also mother of laws – The Cosmic Law of Universe, the Divine Law of Nature or simply called the Law of Karma. 

In forming laws of a country, the law makers become unwilful violators of Cosmic Law by ruling on innocent’s exit from the world by making Euthanasia legal. Those whose duty is to make laws or to enforce laws for the well being of humanity act as instruments of karmic law. Hence, it is of utmost importance that discretion is exercised “cautiously” and “wisely” by the Parliamentarians in making laws such as Euthanasia. Wisely I say, because they are representatives of people of a democratic nation obliged to protect the lives of people they represent; and cautiously for they become an “accomplice” of crime – a Spiritual crime by simply allowing “life-saver” doctors to take away life of the diseased.

According to the cosmic law, all waves of life emerge from and merge into the Infinite Ocean. Some last longer than others, but they all have to express the Infinite variously and fully. Natural death comes when each object, each human being, has done his full share in expressing the silent Infinite. Until the soul has completely worked out the effects of egoistic prenatal and postnatal actions, and has found liberation, one should not deliberately seek exit from the bodily house; he would still have to come back to finish the karma he left undone. The prodigal soul is jailed in flesh, and must work out his term. Physical pain, as in long-continued disease, and mental suffering are sometimes worse than death, which brings cessation of physical pain. Oft-dreaded death is a natural change of the body, a deep sleep earned after a long term of activity in the office of life.

Death by suicide or assisted suicide by lethal injection, however, is a spiritual crime, because it involves the quitting of the duties or the tests of life. The person who commits suicide or assisted suicide is denied the privilege of peace that attends the rightly won pension of death. He who deserts this earth as a coward cannot be granted the pension of rest.

The Law of Karma or action is scientific, being rooted in the law of causation; it has also a philosophic, moral and practical side. Karma exists for a man so that he may learn from its workings the wisdom of returning from multiplicity to unity. Transgression of karmic law delays man in his spiritual evolution. The doctrine of karma gives faith in the justice and wisdom of God’s laws working in the lives of man. The various grades of latent health or ill health, or good or bad tendencies that people have can only be satisfactorily explained by looking back into the records of their former lives.

Even if justice does not seem to prevail, the karmic law will not fail to balance the scale. The karmic law – that you reap in this life what you sowed in past lives – is a just law. It is the karmic law which explains the seeming injustices that occur from the very birth of human life. 

And therefore we see lady of justice holding balance scale - the true significance of unseen cosmic justice.

Babri Masjid v Ram Mandir

Babri Masjid (Mosque) vs Ram Mandir (Temple)

Messages are currently being circulated on social media to vote in favour of Ram Mandir - the temple against Babri Masjid - the mosque, if one is a true Hindu.


“True Hindus MUST support Babri Masjid.”

Hinduism, like any other religion does not teach its followers to demolish or destruct a structure of another religion. On the contrary, it preaches to respect and protect other faiths & religions . It is to be remembered that Hinduism is originally called Sanatana Dharma, which means – religion that has no beginning or no end. Sanatana Dharma (Eternal Religion) is self sustained such that its existence is not dependant on construction of mandirs or destruction of masjids.

Undoubtedly, Ayodhya is the birth place of Lord Rama. There may have been a Ram temple in Ayodhya, which was demolished by the Mughals in the 1500s; though no evidence is enough to support that theory. Even if assumed to be true, Human Intelligence was very low during that period (identified by self-realized masters as descending Kali yuga consisting of 1200 years which started in 500 A.D), an intelligence which is now higher in the current age (identified by self-realized masters as ascending Dwapara Yuga consisting of 2400 years that started in 1700 A.D). Law and Order, Civilization, Technological Development, Space Science, A.I etc. is the indicative evidence of ascending intelligence attained by man in Dwapara. Then why are Hindus so desperate to repeat the folly of Mughals? If they do, it only serves the purpose of revenge (an anti-Hindu characteristic) against the Mughals, who today lie deeply buried underneath.

Why can’t Babri Masjid be looked at, as a great monument of India just like Taj Mahal and Charminar, when these monuments too were built by the Mughals? In that way, Hindus will become more respectable in the eyes of Muslims and a great nation will retain its dignity by protecting its own heritage. A true Hindu will see Lord Rama even in Babri Masjid. If not, then alternatively, the temple construction can be carried out elsewhere in Ayodhya other than Babri Masjid. It is the land of “Ayodhya” not land of “Babri Masjid” in particular that has significance to Lord Ram’s place of birth. Then why encourage ulterior, less intelligent, provocative, political motives wanting the Masjid to be demolished?

A true spiritual leader in India, if any, should spread the message of love among the multi cultures of India rather than getting engaged in “negotiations” between Hindus and Muslims thereby creating factions among communities. Wise men of India (if they had been alive today) like Swami Vivekananda, Sai Baba of Shirdi, Mahatma Gandhi or even Dr. Abdul Kalam would never want their nation to follow in the footsteps of belligerent Mughals. 

True spiritual leaders, unfortunately don’t exist today despite India being called an ancient land of wisdom.

Vision Beyond

Answers for a spiritual seeker: 

 

What is Liberation & Why? 

Liberation, is not a thing that can depend on man’s belief for its existence. Liberation is Stabilization of Jiva (soul) in its Real Self. So long as man identifies himself with his material body and fails to find repose in his true Self, he feels his wants fulfilled as his heart’s desires remain unsatisfied. To satisfy them he has to appear often in flesh and blood on the stage of life, subject to the influence of Darkness, Maya, and has to suffer all the troubles of life & death. Troubles are born from Ignorance. Ignorance is the perception of the nonexistent, and non-perception of the Existent. Man’s purpose is complete freedom from unhappiness. When man raises himself above the idea creation of this Maya, and passes completely out of its influence, he becomes liberated from bondage and is placed in his real Self, the Eternal Spirit.
 

Why is God not comprehensible? 

The Eternal Father as GOD the Para Brahma is the only Real Substance, who is all in all in the universe. Man possesses eternal faith and believes intuitively in the existence of a Substance, of which the objects of sense i.e. sound, sight, smell, touch and taste, the component parts of this visible world – are but properties. As man identifies himself with the material body, composed of these properties only, and not the Substance to which these properties belong. The Eternal Father, GOD, the only Substance in the universe, is therefore not comprehensible by man of this material world, unless he becomes divine by lifting his self above this creation of Maya. As mentioned earlier in my message, God is comprehensible through Intuition. Intuition or direct knowledge does not depend on any data from the senses. That is why the intuitive faculty is often called the ‘sixth sense’. He who is God-conscious is sure of himself. He knows, and he knows that he knows. He becomes sure of God’s presence as sure as he knows the taste of an orange.

Why should we trust and follow the Guru? 

The Blind cannot lead the Blind; only a master, guru, spiritual preceptor, sat guru, the savior, siddha-purusha, one who KNOWS GOD, may rightly teach others about HIM. He is master of himself – of the mind, emotions, senses, passions. His actions are unclouded by egoistic motives, are consonant with the will of God; and he knows himself as one with God, not in imagination but in actual experience of Divine Omnipresence. The guru is described in the Guru Gita as dispeller of darkness. It is by divine right the title of guru is conferred only upon those exalted souls who, through their own Self Realization and oneness with God, are qualified to lead others from the darkness of ignorance to the everlasting light of Truth. It is not easy for man to find a Guru for we are left with no privilege to make this divine choice. It’s only after possessing a longing desire to find God, may HE send us a guru, who helps to elevate the disciple to his own level of realization. The coming across of a spiritual personality in one’s life followed by that strong desire to find God is an indication that a true guru has come.

Faith is Independent of Evidence but Belief is Dependent

No material evidence can buy experience of spiritual reality. Evidence is analyzed through senses which are bound to mislead unless one successfully aims to neutralize the enslaving capacity of the senses by offering the objects of sense into the self-controlled use of the powers of sense. If one only keeps reading books without having love & faith in God or with a skeptical mind expecting to find evidence first before believing, he will end up not finding the Truth unless he starts having faith in God and/or starts practising a particular path of realization. Evidence is easily experienced by the devotee/disciple DURING the spiritual journey, not before that, when God knows that His devotee loves Him more than the objects of this world temporary in nature.

Similarities of holy texts

The following verses reveal the unity of religions:

1. The Gita – Forsake all else and remember me alone. Absorb thy mind in Me, become my devotee; resign all things to Me; bow down to me.
 

First of the Ten Commandments given to Moses:Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
 

2. The Gita – Those who worship lesser gods, O Arjuna, they go unto them; My devotee comes unto Me.

The Bible – Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image i.e. to worship the cross of Christ and forget what the cross stands for is to worship a graven image because you have lost sight of its significance, you have forgotten the Infinite.
 

3. One of the verses in the Bible again co-relate with the yoga sutras:

I was in the Spirit (spiritual consciousness) on the Lord’s day (the day of contacting the divine realms of truth) and heard behind me (in the medulla, ‘behind’ or in the back of the head) a great voice as of a trumpet (the great blissful sound of Aum)…And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks (seven astral centres/chakras of the body) and in the midst of the seven candlesticks one (the astral body) like unto the son of man (similar in appearance to the physical body)…. And his voice as the sound of many waters (the sound of the elements, tattvas, emanating from the astral centres).

Many more texts can be made available but this should be enough to set an example for now, of the unity of all religions.
 

No Religion is vague

Christianity, like any other religion is neither vague nor loosely hanging rather firmly established and engraved on the sheet of time & space. God made Jesus an Oriental in order to bring East and West together. Christ came to awaken the divine consciousness of brotherhood in the East and West. He lived in India during most of the eighteen unaccounted years of his life, studying with India’s great masters. This shows the unity of all great saints. The great religions of the world preach the necessity of finding God and all have a moral code. What then creates the differences in them? It is the bigotry in men’s minds. Not by concentrating on dogma may we reach God, but by actual soul knowledge. If you think wisely then you will know that Jesus Christ, Gautam Buddha, Mahavir, Prophet Mohammad, Sai Baba and many other saints of this world found God through wisdom, not by following our religion. Instead of correctly following the original message of God people made a separate religion on their name all together namely Christianity, Buddhism, Jainism, Islam respectively. But the great souls became one with God just as a wave merges into, to become an Ocean. Thus, it is a folly to say that one will need to follow strictly Hinduism to attain Liberation. Hinduism describes multiple methods to attain liberation including Bhakti Yoga (love of God-in-form), Dhyana Yoga, Karma Yoga, Raj Yoga, Mantra Sadhana (reciting which one can awaken the Kundalini, the sleeping serpent located at the base of the spine) and many other Yoga Sutras. Therefore, vagueness is caused by men of this world for they converted the original message of God according to their level of ignorance/lesser intelligence. The ignorant act of men created many religions. Spiritual science or religion should only be learnt from an authorized god realized master just as one would learn anatomy from a qualified doctor, algebra from a maths teacher & law from a lawyer. The guru who knows God will shoot star-shells of wisdom on the disciple.

Christianity and Islam were found just 2500 years ago after the physical existence of Jesus and Prophet Mohammad. Lord Krishna existed much before that time in Dwapara yuga and even before him Lord Ram came to this earth in Treta Yuga - NASA has captured 1.75 million years old images of man-made bridge between India & Sri Lanka giving us a reason to believe that Ramayana may be that old). Does that mean that God didn’t exist before that time? No. Hinduism has an authentic record of having no beginning and no end. That is why it is called Eternal (Sanatana) Religion (Dharma).

Rig Veda – Whence it was produced? Whence is the creation? The gods came afterwards, with the creation of this universe

God is in form and still above HIM is the Niraakar Ishwara – God without Form, the un-manifested Spirit. Hindu Gods like Brahma Vishnu & Shiva are Gods in form and behind them is still a greater power of Niraakar Ishwar. The spiritual journey becomes easy if a devotee begins to worship God-in-form before he can merge in Niraakar Ishwara.

Before creation existed there was Cosmic Consciousness: Spirit or God, the Absolute, ever existing, ever conscious, ever new Bliss beyond form and manifestation. When creation came into being, Cosmic Consciousness “descended” into the physical universe where it manifests as the omnipresent pure reflection of God’s intelligence and consciousness inherent and hidden within all creation. When this consciousness descends into the physical body of man it becomes soul or super consciousness: the ever existing, ever new Bliss of God individualized by encasement in the body. When soul becomes identified with the body it manifests as ego, mortal consciousness. The soul must climb back up the ladder of consciousness to Spirit.

Hindu Gods have much significance that can be found in books written by true gurus, who actually know God; as opposed to opinions and speculations expressed in other books available in the market. 

Krishna was an incarnation of the One Limitless God. He it was – the Self and Spirit being indivisibly one – who had evolved the conscious Cosmic Vibratory Light (Vivasvat) out of which all souls are created, and in which after many births, all souls are dissolved (refer Chapter 4, Verse 4 of Gita). 

Mother Kali & Durga represent two aspects of Cosmic nature, the active creative energy of Spirit. Her four hands hold symbols of prosperity, protection, discipline and bestowal of wisdom. 

Shiva represents the Infinite that is the foundation of cosmic nature. 

Goddess Durga with ten hands represents the ten human senses (5 sensory instruments & 5 instruments of action). She is shown destroying a demon that symbolizes Ignorance. As devotee tries to conceive god in tangible form, the invisible God materializes before the true devotee in the desired visible form. As invisible water vapour is transformed by the chill of frost into ice, so by the transmuting power of devotion the invisible God and His Cosmic Light can be frozen into the objectivity that satisfies the yearning seeker. Nevertheless, the Spirit is one, his multifaceted divine aspects, informed as devas are merely temporary personifications of His attributes and powers.