- Karma means action, operating through the Law of Cause and Effect.
- Karma is a reflection of our Thoughts, feelings, words and action (TFWA). There are three stages of Karma – Prarabdha, Sanchita, and Kriyamana or agami.
- Prarabdha is the part of our karma that bears fruit in the present life. It is the cause of our current destiny, the allotted portion of sanchita karma to be worked out in a given type of environment during a lifetime. It is the karma that is inherited from past lives, but is meant to be dealt with in this lifetime and has begun to produce effects.
- Sanchita is unresolved karma that has accumulated in former lives and has not yet taken effect. The cumulative effects of actions done in all of our past lives are “packed” into a concentrated residual of potentiality in our subtlest and innermost layer (the causal level).
- Agami or kriyamana karma is that form of karma which is created in the present life and over which we have complete control. After being born in an incarnation by the force of Prarabdha karma, the jiva performs actions. When we refer to how we act or react in our daily lives, it is agami karma.
- The law of karma is not some philosophy, some abstraction. It is simply a theory which explains something true inside your being. The net result: either we respect ourselves, or we despise and feel contemptible, worthless and unlovable.
- Every moment is an opportunity to create yourself. Either a grace will arise in your being or a disgrace: this is the law of karma. Nobody can avoid it. Nobody can cheat oneself on karma, because that is not possible. Watch… and once you understand it things start changing. Once you know the inevitability of it you will be a totally different person.
- We are the creators of our future. The future is born out of this moment. Whatever you are thinking or feeling now is spinning the web of your future. Be aware of what you are putting out into the universe through your thoughts and feelings. Life is simply a mirror. The outer world mirrors our inner world, and if you look around you, it is obvious we have lots of homework to do in the inner world.
- All actions, whether fulfilled in the present or the future, karmic experiences, have the roots in the five afflictions; Avidya (ignorance), Asmita (egoism), Raga (attachment), Dvesha (repulsion and aversion) and Abhinivesha (fear of death and the will to live). The first affliction is avidya, lack of awareness, and the other four are by-products of it. The last is abhinivesh, lust for life. All the karmas that you do are born basically out of lack of awareness.
- This is the meaning of sannyas: to live unburdened. Clean the mirror every moment so that no dust gathers, and the mirror will always reflect life as it is. To live an unburdened life, to live a life without any gravitation, to live a life with wings, to live a life of the open sky is to be a sannyasin. In old, ancient books it is said that a sannyasin is a bird of the sky – he is! Just as the birds in the sky don’t leave any footprints, he leaves no footprints. If you walk on the earth, you leave footprints.
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