What you Sow, so shall you reap
Why some people are beset with aliments
beyond comprehension in spite of a good life here?
Many
a time we ponder over this question or similar ones like, why does my drunkard
colleague have a lavish lifestyle and I don’t? Why an uneducated could live a
big bungalow and other person who is comparing lives in an apartment?
What we have sown now, we must reap now or
in the future. It is not God who is responsible for our consequences – good or
bad. We punish ourselves by our own evil thoughts and actions. Good, worldly or
evil actions performed with independent free will, or through the influence of
past actions, are called karma.
What we are currently now is due to the
outcome of our past actions. “Past "may be past in this life or past
incarnation. Our physical body – the way we look, the family that we have in
this life, our friends are all outcome of our thoughts and actions.
Every action performed- mentally or
physically, consciously or unconsciously has a specific effect on the life of
man. This law of action or cause and effect is termed as Karma. Action through
ignorance, desire, selfish craving and instinctive reaction to self created
environment traverse through thousands of reincarnations until it becomes
conscious of this process and reverses it. Good or bad actions remain in our
subconscious mind.
According to Karmic law, we attract
everything that we thought of or intending to acquire so. The various grades of
health or ill health, good or bad tendencies can only be explained by looking
into record of past lives. Sri Sri Paramhamsa Yogananda said, “Be in the world
but be not of it.”
Guruji mentions that effect of “whatever
you have done you CAN undo” by introspection and meditation. Karma is often
misunderstood as fate (something one has to resign to). Guruji gives us solace
by saying that WILL POWER is more powerful than KARMA and one CAN change their
Karma by strong will power.
The effect of an action by a person may
come to him after he forgets the action and eventually he refers it to as fate.
The seeds of past action can be roasted in the fire of desire less action and
Kriya Yoga meditation. Kriya Yoga consists of body discipline, mental control
and meditating on Aum. Patanjali refers
to Kriya technique or life force control. In Bhagwat Gita, Lord Krishna advises his
disciple to practice pranayama (life force control) or Kriya yoga to prevent
his mind from wandering away from divine ecstasy into the domain of thoughts
and material sensations. Kriya yogi
releases his life force from five sense telephones and automatically finds that
sensations have vanished from consciousness. Kriya yoga is airplane route of
God realization - an instrument through which human evolution can be quickened.
Life energy which normally involved in bodily activities like maintaining heart
beat is freed for higher activities by calming and stilling the ceaseless
demands of breath.
To overcome Karma the guideposts are: we
should think before we act and act lawfully. This will help to control so
called fate. No matter how great a failure, there are always success tendencies
buried in subconscious mind. We should rouse these good tendencies by
meditation.