The following is an excerpt from the book IN SEARCH OF HAPPINESS( how past lives affect the present , a soul's perspective. The book explains how karmic debt gets carried over life times because we fail to heal our negative thought process in the present life.
The book also exemplifies how death does not resolve any problems. It shows how the person lives nine lives with the same set of problems manifesting in different ways.
Section 5 - General Awareness - Karma forms the
syllabus of a life-time
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What is Karma? (Some questions regarding Karma )
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Learning karmic lessons for the soul is like
learning to walk is for the toddler
o (Preventing
the need to sin)
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Karma forms the syllabus of a life-time
Washing
away karmic debt
Karma is a measure of the kind of energy which our
soul emanates during a lifetime through our focus on some thoughts over others.
Our soul is a non-physical being. It is in an
energy form. Hence, our soul cannot take any physical action. As souls, beings of energy; we cannot touch or see the
physical aspect of reality except through the energy underlying it. For
example, when we make love or read a book or steal, our soul only receives the
energy which emanates during the act, be it positive or negative.
When we feel positive, we radiate positive karma from the core of our being , as souls. When we feel negative, we radiate negative karma from the core of our being as souls. Negative energy released from the core creates negative energy cycles or negative karmic cycles in our life. Negative karma has to be transcended into positive energy through energy rotation by reversing our direction of thinking such that we can feel positive in the same acts which made us feel negative earlier or we can create more positive energy than the negative energy we created earlier. When we radiate positive energy, our life starts moving in positive energy cycles of happiness.
Karma forms the syllabus of a life-time
Diane Stein, the author of ‘Essential Energy
Balancing’, writes - ‘Karma is pain carried over lifetimes. It is woven into
our mind-grid when the soul plans birth in a human body. It forms the belief
system the person is born with and which needs to be changed or evolved as part
of soul evolution. Each incarnation gives the soul a chance to experience, grow
and learn in a different physical body. Karmic patterns carry over several
life-times, circumstances and situations, till the negative energy is
transcended into positive.’
Essentially, karma forms the syllabus of a life-time. It
decides the kind of negative emotions we, as souls, want to overcome in one
life-time. Just as a course syllabus entails the subjects and the problems the
student has to understand to move to a higher grade, our soul’s life plan
entails the kind of emotional lessons of maturity it needs to imbibe, to understand
happiness.
A pattern of recurring problems is usually, karmic,
as they occur due to the soul testing itself. If the soul is unable to learn
the lessons in that life, the test passes to the next life.
When
the soul is able to use a difficulty as a means of evolving to a higher level
of consciousness, it succeeds in transcending its karmic debt into positive
energy.
For
example, I had a client who was deeply in love with a man and he was in love
with her but they could not communicate with each other. We found that the
reason was that they had been responsible for each other’s death and misery in
previous lives. In two lives, she had betrayed him accidently as he was a
soldier and she was from an enemy camp. In other few lives, they had fought and
he had left her in anger while going for wars. Then, he had died in the wars
while she had lived alone waiting for him to return. The negative energies they
had created for each other made them subconsciously afraid of being together
again.
In the present life, due to some
mis-understandings, the girl felt betrayed emotionally, as severely as he may
have felt betrayed at the point of death in the past lives. (The soul does not recognize death of the
body. It only understands the emotional aspect associated with death, as the
soul does not die, by itself. ) Avenging a physical death with an emotional
death was karmic balancing on the soul’s part but made both of them feel
rejected by each other in their present lives.
They started pretending indifference to each other
in anger.
Both of them
had to break a subconscious cycle wherein they usually parted. This cycle could
break only if instead of becoming the victim or abuser, one of the souls chose
not to get provoked by the other . They had to learn to let go and focus on
feeling positive while in love, instead of feeling judged or betrayed again.
But, feeling happy in imagination while assuming
rejection in reality was a tough challenge for both, which required a belief in
the process of visualization, above their self imposed exiles.
If they could presume the other loved, without
asking for overt physical evidence, the gates of communication could open but
each kept waiting for the other.
Another example – Overcoming the karmic cycle of cheating and being cheated
Overcoming any karmic cycle requires an inner drive
to lead a happier life than in the present. If one enjoys focusing on the
troubles in the present, and doe s not hold back revengeful feelings, soul
learning cannot happen.
Usually, if
one gets cheated in a relationship, it is because one has cheated the erring
spouse in a past life or someone else in the same life. If you create the
energy of betrayal, it would circle back to you karmically even if it’s not
from the same person.
The karmic cycle of cheating would continue till
one gets over the desire to cheat another soul for whatever reason. Breaking a
karmic cycle does not mean that the soul should suffer the trauma of being
cheated, feel humiliated or feel guilty that it is paying for its sins from
past lives. It only means that the soul has to shift its focus to feeling non-negative/detached.
To break the karmic cycle, the need to take revenge
should be defeated as it usually creates negativity.
Instead, the soul can become indifferent to the
spouse and move on into another relationship by realizing they have differences
without feeling unnecessarily sad or bitter.
The victim’s focus has to be on learning the soul
lesson rather than on suffering. That way the suffering may continue but for a
shorter time.
The
suffering or the experience of difficult circumstances continues because the
negative energy once created takes its own time to get transcended into
positive, even after the soul starts focusing on the positive soul lesson. During
this period, negative emotions keep resurfacing.
The
reality we experience in our present is a manifestation of the feelings we have
been focusing upon in our past. The process of creation of reality is similar
to the creation of a building. A building, once built, even if undesirable,
would take time to get demolished; and there will be an intermediate phase
before a new building can be built in its place.
The soul starts the process of learning its karmic
lessons when it makes its choices in order to feel happy, and lets go off all
beliefs which prevent it to grow to being happy. It has to decide to stop being stuck in redundant phases of growth.
Once
the soul lesson is learnt, the soul forgives the other soul by understanding
him/her as being less evolved, or caught up in a negative phase of life.
We do not get difficulties which we do not have the
ability to overcome. We plan our tests ourselves, as souls. And the difficulty
of the tests varies with the level of soul evolution. An advanced soul would
not get as simple tests as a young, inexperienced soul would because that would
not help evolve its consciousness. So, the more advanced we are, the more
difficulties we face, and the greater we can evolve in terms of achieving
levels of happiness.
The core realization involved in karmic repayment
is that the soul hates that behaviour the most which it has indulged in the
past and despised itself for engaging in it; like Dev said he hated being
betrayed whereas he himself had betrayed in a past life. This is an observable
pattern in past life therapy sessions.
When
we forgive the other soul, for abusing, we also forgive ourselves for the same
mistake done by us in a past life. Once we forgive ourselves, we stop
attracting that kind of negative energy.
We let go of that life, and let ourselves evolve to a higher frequency,
where we can achieve our purpose of life through the route the soul wants us to
follow.
When we compare life to a video-game, karmic
difficulties are like levels in a video-game. They help the driver improve his
balance. The driver keeps failing in obstacles till he learns to overcome them.
Once he learns to balance, he wins the game. .Akin
to the driver winning the game, once the soul lesson is learnt, our soul
achieves its destination in that aspect of life. Now, even if a similar
obstacles comes which made it fall/feel negative earlier, the soul passes
through it without letting it affect its progress.
-- excerpt from SECTION 5- chapter 10- KARMIC BALANCING
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