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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
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(Preventing the need to sin)
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Karma forms the syllabus of a life-time (Washing
away karmic debt )
• What
is Karma?
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.
Energy is released through the feelings contained in
our thoughts. When actions are taken by our body as a follow up of our thoughts,
we, as the soul, receive electric impulses through the feelings generated
during the action.
Every action follows a thought and therefore, every
action entails a feeling.
Feelings are created by and create electric
impulses in the body. In response to these electric impulses, our soul raises
or lowers its frequency or speed of vibration. The more positive the soul
frequency, the more successful we feel in achieving happiness.
(For more
details, please refer to the book – Creation
of Happiness: The Energy War , a soul’s perspective )
In brief, it
can be said that the soul participates in the action taken only through the
kind of feelings, the person engages in during, before and after the act. The
soul does not dance, drive or read by itself. The body does the actions. The
feeling or intention chosen upon before the action is taken, sets the kind of
energy cycle the act will emit for the soul.
Feeling
positive while doing the act generates a positive energy cycle and feeling
negative while doing the act generates a negative energy cycle. In other words,
if the action is taken with a positive intention, it would create further
positive energy; whereas if the action is enacted with a negative feeling
behind it, it would lead to generation of more negative energy.
There is no action we take which is without a
feeling entailed. Even the act of breathing has a feeling entailed in it
because we are feeling positive or negative in our thoughts while indulging in
breathing. Hence, be it the routine activities of eating, drinking, bathing,
studying or doing our job, we create karma with each action we take.
Positive
karma is created when our motive behind an act is neutral or positively
expectant that the act would help us increase happiness in some form. Negative
karma is created when our motive is based on fear of disapproval, and the act
creates sadness in some form, for ourselves or others.
Whether a positive karmic cycle emerges or a
negative karmic cycle emanates depends on the average energy released.
Hence, our actions can create positive karma and spread
happiness in our lives only if we think more happy thoughts than sad thoughts
while doing our work.
The soul which feels predominantly sad/unhappy
loses faith in God and cannot believe that happiness can exist.
It loses patience and perseverance necessary to
transform happy feelings into physical reality. So, it takes short cuts to
manifest its desires like cheating self or another, stealing, killing, using
bribes and manipulation which make it focus more on feeling negative
internally.
Negative feelings create negative impulses in the
body radiating negative energy in the soul’s life. All such acts taken with a
focus on the negative create negative karma. We internally compromise on our own
happiness by taking away happiness from others through negative acts.
Incurring negative karma by feeling compromised, as
souls, in order to achieve our external desires fast, delays our soul from evolving
its frequency to positive. By failing to raise its frequency, our soul fails in
achieving its purpose of life. The energies
we focus on multiply. As a result, the soul incurring negative karma
co-creates a negative world for itself through its focus on the negative.
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Some
common questions regarding Karma
Do acts of violence lead to negative karma?
Usually, most acts using violence constitute
negative karma. However, all acts using violence cannot qualify as negative
karma because it is the intention/cause behind the act which determines whether
negative karma is generated or not. For example, killing another soul to prove
one’s power would create negative karma, but killing another soul in self-defence
or to prevent further creation of negative energy would not.
Violence is only a tool for reinforcing an idea. It
is the idea which would create karma for the soul. Positively intended violence
can even lead towards creation of positive energy, and hence, create positive
karma for the soul.
Our soul does not feel physical hurts. It only
perceives the energy of the hurt viz. the emotional pain accompanying the
violence. Usually, the emotional trauma accompanying violence is more intense
than with verbal abuse. But, if verbal abuse is scheming, it can hurt as much
as violent acts. Hence, emotional abuse can create as much negative karma as
physical abuse.
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How is
Karmic debt calculated?
Karma accumulates over life-times. A person’s karma
in the present life is determined by the average quality of energy he
contributes by his thoughts, words or actions, in the universe, over a period
of life-times.
Metaphorically explaining, if we view one life
as a video-game, then karma is the number of points we lose or win while
playing the game. The points of the player or the
karma of the soul add up as the soul moves from one life to the next, and get
carried over to each new life.
Just as the player needs to overcome the obstacles in the video-game and win
positive points to reach the end of the game victorious, our soul has to make
up for its lost karmic points or negative karma to move up on the scale of
evolution.
Till the player gets positive points and
neutralizes the negatives, it cannot win the game.
Likewise, we have to repay our karmic debt for
achieving our destination/dreams of life, as planned as souls.
The negative points have to be neutralized by
obtaining a higher number of positive karmic points .Positive karma helps the
soul achieve a positive energy balance, necessary to find happiness.
For instance, if a soul has been a killer in one
life and a saint in another, it is the overall balance of karma which would
affect its stage of evolution at any one point.
In other words, the person’s karmic debt in his
present life would equal the amount of negative energy he created in the life
of the killer, minus the amount of positive energy he created in the life of
the saint.
If the soul has incurred - minus10 points in the
killer’s life and + plus 8 points in the saint’s life, his present karmic debt
would be – minus 2. Till the karmic debt is not cleared, the negative energy
would not transcend into positive. The
soul would evolve to the next higher plane of the game or evolution, only when
his karmic debt is cleared.
In
other words, obstacles would block the player’s progress in the present level
of the game till the player is able to overcome them, and pass on to the next
level of the game.
Since,
karma is a measure of energy, for negative karma to be cleared, it is necessary
to create neutral or positive energy in its place in our own life and in the
lives of others. However, it is not necessary to heal the same number of souls
as we may have harmed. It is only necessary to create the same quantum of
positive energy as the quantum of negative energy we created, so as to
neutralize the negative.
Hence, if the person carrying the karmic debt can
make even one person very happy, it may balance his/her negative karma against
several people.
However, the
reverse is equally true. A person can create huge amounts of negative karma by
making one person severely unhappy, even if this person has been creating
positive karma for several others.
As a religious verse says “If you heal one soul, you heal the whole mankind; and if you hurt one
soul, you hurt the whole mankind “.
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Does
Social service help in clearing negative karma?
Creation of positive energy by focusing on positive
feelings and actions, without harming others, is a sure method of clearing
karma, and healing suffering. But, focusing on positive actions while feeling
negative within may not lead to repayment of karma because the action, by
itself, would not be counted at the soul’s level of existence. Only feelings
matter to the soul’s energy cycle.
Being pre -dominantly positive within while taking
actions only can help to repay karma. Joy, peace and happiness are positive
energies and cannot come in our lives when we feel predominantly negative,
irrespective of our external acts.
Thus, activities like social service and praying
done for repayment of negative karma, would not always lead to creation of
happiness in one’s life, if the focus of the person is more on negative
thoughts than positive on an average .
Like, if we pray out of fear, then the prayer would
multiply fear in our life not joy. Praying would connect us to God only when we
do not feel negative. God is energy of high positive frequency and cannot reach
our soul frequency if it is negative. Praying works when it helps us attain
thoughtless states or positive states of mind.
According to Julie Soskin, author of ‘How psychic are you? ‘-- ‘The karmic
laws of cause and effect act on you every second of your life... If possible,
what we create in this life, it is better to heal in this life itself rather
than carry it forward to another life. The more the dirt, the stickier it gets.
’
• Learning
karmic lessons for the soul is like learning to walk is for the toddler.
Karma helps
in spiritual growth as it helps our soul understand the cause and effect
relationships between the kind of energies it creates and the kinds of energies
it attracts.
It makes our soul realize that if it makes another
soul feel like a victim, it has to undergo the same feeling itself at some
point .In this process, our soul is forced to learn its soul lessons, and
evolve emotionally upwards on the soul dimensional scale.
Negative
karma gets created when the soul is unable to pass a soul test or learn a soul
lesson.
A negative karmic debt is like a mistake committed
while giving a test which has to be rectified in order to pass the test with
good grades. When our soul does not learn its soul lessons, we create negative
energy in place of the positive energy we would have created by passing the
soul test. An erring soul, i.e. the soul who creates negative karma is said to
sin.
Sinning
or making mistakes is not an insurmountable crime from the soul’s perspective, for
which one has to suffer in hell for eternity!
Our soul learns by making mistakes. When we sin to
feel happy and do not become happy with the outcome we manifest, we realize
overtime that our method was not the right one for achieving happiness.
Hence,
committing a sin is like falling on a step while trying to climb up the ladder
of soul evolution to reach a higher level of happiness. We may lose balance in our hurry to go up
fast but we cannot stop moving up because we fell on the way.
Metaphorically, if we compare a young soul to a
toddler, then a soul sins in the same way as the toddler falls while learning
to walk. It is with experience that the toddler attains its balance of walking.
Similarly, it is with evolution that the soul understands
which of its acts create positive energy for itself at the soul level, and
which acts create negative energy.
The toddler cries because it gets hurt while
falling in the process of learning to walk. It gets hurt because it has not yet
learnt to walk.
But, the toddler’s suffering continues only until
it masters the art of walking, as once it knows how to walk, it does not need
to fall.
Also,
feeling positive by feeling loved and encouraged plays a very important role in
healing the toddler’s hurt while it learns to walk. The toddler gets comforted
when it falls by loving adults around it.
Similarly, our soul suffers if it sins or makes
mistakes in the process of finding ways to achieve its desired purpose of life.
Our soul’s suffering continues only until it learns
how to achieve the desired happiness while feeling positive with the method
chosen, because when we grasp the right balance, we learn how to walk with
stability without tripping on short cuts.
Energies multiply by being focused upon and when we
focus on feeling the joy of work and being loved while being success -oriented,
we multiply the positivity in our lives.
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How can
we prevent the need to sin?
Essentially, to prevent our need to take actions
which we consider as sinful, it is
necessary to understand the feeling behind a desire than focus on the external
form of the desire.
Desire comes from the soul level and has to be
understood from that level, itself and not purely from an external, physical or
materialistic level.
For example, it is important to know that we desire
money to attain happiness in some material form through it. Instead of desiring
money only for the sake of it, we need to be aware that our core intention is
to be happy from the money we receive. And happiness may not come in only by earning
money, buying goods or cars or jewels.
It would come in when we feel happy with the
choices we make in life because energies within our mind multiply to create our
future. If we don’t feel happy within our mind, our external joys or successes
will not help us de-stress.
Happiness
usually entails feeling loved or desired. Earning money by sinful means, or
eating extra fatty foods or indulging in loveless sex or in drugs or alcohol
excessively may not compensate for not feeling loved and accepted.
That is why we sometimes subconsciously say we are
sinning when we eat fatty foods because we know that they lead us to feel
unhealthier than satisfied over the day. Whenever we devolve instead of
evolving, we say we are sinning because our conscience kicks us from within and
stress rises.
By understand that we feel happy when we feel
loved or appreciated, we become aware that our soul desire is to feel
appreciated through any actions we take. If our actions do not make us feel
loved from within, as souls, they do not help our soul feel positive.
We would feel happy only if we do not feel more
negative /unloved while doing that act. Otherwise, the negative energy focused
upon would multiply more than happiness.
Like, a prostitute may use her body to earn
money but she may not feel happy by having sex without feeling loved. She may
feel used and thrown, and hence, the money she earns may not compensate for her
loss of happiness.
To prevent the need to sin, it is important to
choose the path of work carefully such as to ensure that the intention behind
working creates more happiness for self and others than the negative energy
emanating as a result of having to work.
If we are compromising ourselves in the work we do
or in the relationships we are in, we sin/devolve our soul frequency out of
fear of survival. Just as eating pizza only satisfies immediate hunger but does
not help in losing weight or in keeping the body healthy, work done to cool
down immediate pressures may not help in achieving the soul’s purpose of
incarnation.
Any
advanced soul realizes that taking shortcuts to happiness creates more negative
energy than positive in the long run, but the young, inexperienced soul does
not.
Like the toddler, the young soul loses its balance
and falls often. Had Dev realized that killing his king for money could not
help him buy happiness, he would not have killed. Instead, he would have
focused on finding a better route to manifest his desires. By killing for
money, he not only lost his life but also got caught in a negative loop of
getting betrayed for life-times.
The process of soul evolution takes its course,
like physical maturation does. Just as a toddler can only be supported while
learning to walk but cannot be forced into learning quickly, a soul cannot be
forced into evolving.
When the
toddler reaches the right maturational age and physical fitness level, it
starts walking, without falling, automatically. It intrinsically does not lose
balance anymore.
Similarly, the soul experiences trial and error
situations, usually, over several life-times before learning how to achieve its
purpose of life without creating negative karma. Thus, in the process of
repaying karma, or learning from mistakes, our soul becomes advanced.
• 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.’
Thus, 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 does 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 be 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.
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Washing
away the Karmic debt
Karmic balancing is a necessary ingredient of soul
evolution, and is meant to help the soul evolve, not suffer. Karma does not
intend to cause suffering. It helps in learning life lessons, from the soul’s
or energy perspective. But, lessons cannot be learnt till we correct the
previous mistakes.
Like, until we wash a dirty glass, we cannot drink
clean water from it, we have to clear our negative thinking patterns for
positive energies to come in our lives.
Negativity arises due to the karmic mistakes we
have made in the past and goes as we evolve to a higher plane of existence, by
choosing to create a positive karmic cycle. A positive karmic cycle can come in
only with a disciplined shift in our thought cycle towards focusing on peace
and happiness in reality or in imagination.. As long as our focus has been and
is on feeling worried, we would multiply negative energies in our lives
wherever we go.
If there
seems no way out of difficult circumstances, the most practical way to
transcend negative karma is to view it as just energy and get detached from it.
Being detached means being non-emotional, and taking
the circumstances mechanically as challenges to be overcome.
Through detachment, instead of focusing on whether our
life as good or bad, we would use it as a learning experience and learn from
past mistakes. That would prevent further reinforcement of the energy of
negative thought.
When the
negative energy is no longer reinforced or fuelled by our focus, it would no
longer multiply. Negativity would lose its grip and the negative cycle would
automatically break.
So, by remaining thoughtless through our problems,
the karmic debt would get washed away.
The pending soul lessons would be mastered as there
would be an automatic shift to focusing on overcoming problems by remaining tolerant,
compassionate or detached/neutral . As explained in part 1, since being neutral
is a higher energy vibration than being negative ( 0 > - ) , it would clear
negative blocks and pave the way for feeling positive and thus, multiply
positivity in life..
However, becoming detached may not directly help us
in achieving our life purpose, as souls. To achieve our desires, we would have
to focus on staying positive so that we multiply the positive energies sin our
lives. Being detached by staying
thoughtless would multiply the energy of staying thoughtless, not of
manifesting dreams.
So, we need to use detachment for washing away
previous karma while primarily remaining
focused on feeling good through the ups and downs of life.
Being detached is like erasing mistakes we have
made in a test paper as it clears the negative energy balance of the past. But,
the test of creation remains and we still have to fill it with the correct
answers. The test of life has to be given again till cleared.
Therefore, it is better to learn detachment while
going through everyday pressures of life than by escaping from life’s
responsibilities. The idea is to not feel hurt by detaching from the negativity
causing situation, but not to run away from the negativity.
Very often, rising out of negativity necessitates
defying conventional wisdom following which makes us feel sad or worried. We
have to let go of beliefs and values which we stick to because of habit, and
instead make choices which seek truth from the soul’s perspective of eternal
life.
The soul tests have to given in order to evolve to
a higher level of happiness. They cannot be avoided or neglected as
non-existent because they keep coming in the form of negative feelings. The
correct answers are those choices of life which make us feel happy from within,
in order to evolve, as souls.
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