LOAD OF KARMA – PLAY OF EMOTIONS

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EDITORIAL - LOAD OF KARMA – PLAY OF EMOTIONS*

 

Karma or what we call Destiny is the result of that life within

Prakriti, which obtain hold of the unresisting Self due to the play

of Emotions or Impulses. Whatever we do through Emotions, whatever

we think through Emotions and whatever we utter through Emotions are

never lost but every small feeling is imprinted on our Inner Mind.

So long as our Inner Mind is helplessly Swayed by Emotions, these

forces which are imprinted therein, return in their in the rebound,

mercilessly against the Self which is now as helpless as it was when

it allowed these Emotions to affect it. The reaction in the rebound,

which the Self still under the sway of Emotions is unable to

prevent, is called Karma or Destiny.

 

Action with Desire brings on Karma. But it is the desire or

attachment for the fruits of the act that brings on karma. If the

act is done with the object of gain, however small it is, there is

the play of emotion, which affects our mental perspective- hence

also affects our Karma. Hence Sri Krishna says to Arjuna in Bhagavad-

Gita that action should be done without desire for its fruit.

 

Self-Realization comes through Experience of Karma. Self Realization

or liberation comes to one not from volition or choice but it is a

State to which he gravitates. From the experience of inmannerable

births, he realizes from experience that physical life is a bondage

burdened with heavy loads of his own making, which he cannot easily

shake off and then with full experience of Karma, his inner mind

acquires Light and his Self realizes that life is a burden, is a

prison and is a field for more burden and begins to control

progressively its future, over what was being steered irresistibly

by the force of Karma. As the Karma gets less and less the man

becomes more and more detached with the result that he obtains

greater mastery over his own Self.

 

So Karma is co-extensive with the Emotions and dies with the

Emotions. It is purely individualistic and has no relation to the

external world. No outsider-God or Guru or a realized Soul- can

help, influence or improve our Karma or bring us Salvation. We who

are already groaning under such a load can, however, get Light from

God-realized Souls, to first avoid increasing it and then try to

reduce it. Divine Sympathy can however cancel or wipe off all Karma,

at once but rarely interferes with the course of Karma.

 

 

One has to throw down the load of Karma himself by his conviction an

his realization that those Emotions are unreal, transient, and are

clouds on God's path and think seriously at leisure over the effects

of Emotions in this Light-assuming that every thought, word or deed,

is the result of some kind of Emotion or other. As for instance, the

act of stabling another in anger, is followed by two results viz.,

one is the automatic effect on Karma- This effect is the same,

whether the man is killed actually or not so long as the intention

to kill is there. The second effect is that the Emotion has made the

Self blind to his Reason and has goaded him to do what Reason should

have prevented. The next moment when his Reason has returned, he

sees his mistake and repents. Hence such thousands of Emotions of

which one is made do cast a barrier on the path of Real Knowledge

and one is unable to realize God-within.

 

 

So our Salvation is in own hands and is not a gift and is to be

worked out by detachment from Emotions, which work on our self

disastrously by first acting on our Inner Mind and possessing it in

the form of Karma. The Inner Mind and possessed reacts against the

Self- thus endlessly. Again Emotions produce delusions in the Self

as said above, And as Prakriti derives existence from the Emotions

and the delusions created by it, we have to stay this Emotion to get

rid off Karma and Delusion as well as the Prakriti built by them in

order that we may see what is already in us-Divinity.

 

As we conquer these Emotions, we irresistibly proceed is convert

into our conscious field (i.e.,. conscious mind) regions of real

mental Vision, till now unknown, and unknowable to our shaded

understanding. The so-called conscious Mind, which has relation to

the physical (gorss) or emotional bodies fallen into disuse before

this Light. At this stage, if we obtain control over the Inner Mind

or our Self, the prior occupant of it, i.e., Karma is destroyed. And

Self (- Pure Sat, Chit and Ananda,) having no desires, renounces all

rights and resolves to carry out its duties or obligations self-

lessely and gains Divine Knowledge or Self-Realization- prior to

liberation or Moksha, when the Self is extinguished-which of course

is a work of several years-if not generations- after attaining to

the stage of detachment, enabling passive condition of the conscious

Mind (in the brain) and causing the Inner Mind (in the subtle body)

devoid of the load of Karma, to come into play unconsciously to mix

with, the conscious Self and to be lost in Sweet Oblivion.

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* Uncontrolled, Unsubjugated or un overcome bad Emotion, instincts,

impulses, passions, Gunas and desires are classed as Sadripus, our

(6) Enemies within doors (bodies) and are Kama, Krodha, Lobha, Moha,

Mada and Matsara i.e. Lust (desires, dotage,) Anger, Covetousness

(cravings), Loss of sense, Pride (arrogance) and jealousy (envy,

hate) Pity, Sympathy, love, Zeal come under good Emotions or

Passions and are also hindrances to detachment from this world and

worldly affairs and hence to be eschewed. CF.Jada Bharata's story in

Bhagavata.

 

(Adopted from Sai Sudha Jan 1944)