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spiritual development.Karma is the fruits, the good or evil effects, of action.

Action of itself is a manifestation of energy. So every action, be it physical,

mental, or spiritual is energy in motion. Energy by itself is devoid of emotion

and so is not bound by the conditioning of good and evil. Energy is energy,

vibrating at a subtle or a gross frequency.Appropriately, the effects of each

of your actions are either good or evil, only in the sense as we may define

good or evil. Good actions may be simply defined as those that serve to bring

about harmony in the internal and external states of the body, mind, and the

soul, and evil actions as those that strengthen the fetters of maya and

imprison us further in the cocoon of ignorance.In the practical sense, actions

done with the consciousness of God as the Doer, bring divine returns and those

done in the consciousness s of the ego reap gross returns. If at a party you

pamper your palate on delicious and

difficult-to-digest food, you probably end up with dyspepsia, but if you eat

wisely and think that it is God eating through you and surrender the act of

eating at the feet of the Divine, you actually undergo a certain level of

purification of the consciousness and thereby also of your body!As soon as you

are confronted with a want, check within to see whether it is wholesome or not.

Anything that is wholesome will lead you away from material enslavement to the

lake of true happiness. Every act is good that will bring forth a blossoming of

your inner divine qualities and understanding.In some cultures of the world, one

is not considered evil if one's actions are not evil, but just as ideation

preceded creation, thoughts precede action. Within the realms of your inner

consciousness, your thoughts are more powerful than your actions. The nature of

your thoughts will draw to you like circumstances and if the level of feeling is

intrinsically high in a particular set of thoughts, stronger proportionately

will be the manifestation of their karmic effect. Animals live by instinct and

have no discrimination, and thereby are free from individual karma. They are

governed by the influences of their environment and by mass karma, but man is a

free agent. So guard the cave of your thoughts and muse only on good and

powerful positive thoughts.Almost all of us undergo the throes of misery at one

time or the other in our lives. And at every prickly thorn on the path, we are

quick to blame others for our troubles. The law of karma educates us in the

realization that we alone are responsible and to blame for all that befalls us

- be it grave ill-health, a broken marriage, misunderstandings in daily life,

or something else.God created us free, and with free choice and the inner

wisdom to see creation as He sees it. But over time, we have let our outwardly

turned senses rule roost over our minds and our lives. Suffering comes because

we have broken some pertinent law of nature ... either in a distant life or in

the recent past. Suffering comes as a result of man's own delusion, and also as

a consequence of mass karma. Suffering has a purpose and seeks to awaken the

divine strength in you, that with courage and determination you may imbue the

lesson that life is striving to teach you. Until you absorb the underlying

lesson, Nature will keep slotting you into those very troublesome circumstances

again and again.God urges you to refrain from identification with creation and

its protagonists. In sleep you experience a garish nightmare, but when you

awake, you see it was only a dream. Similarly this whole creation is a dream in

the consciousness of God, and if you identify only with His consciousness, then

delusive pain,

desires, actions will no longer bind you with the chords of karma.The only real

way to escape from the karmic law therefore is to realize the Self within. As a

thumb rule, do all your deeds without desire for the fruit of action and in all

that you do, feel and realize that it is God who is the Doer and not you.

Destiny, fate, luck, are creations of the human mind. Everything in nature is

born of a scientific law and what man ignorantly calls destiny is nothing but

'effects', the cause of which he himself set into motion in the past.Karma is

the law of action and is rooted in the law of causation . It is as applicable

to our family lives as it is to our professional, business, or academic

experiences. Action can be born of current influences of environment, inner

impulses and acquired habits, or of habits and influences of past lives. We are

therefore responsible for all our actions, even

those born of uncontrolled innate impulses, for we ourselves created those

impulses through actions in past lives.The scriptures teach us that good and

bad effects of actions in the present life settle down into the subconscious

and those that are brought over from the past are submerged in the subtle state

of the super conscious. Here these seeds stay until one starts to awaken

spiritually and work out their effects. As a general principle, ordinary man

stirs his subconscious karmic baggage first, and simultaneously starts to

relieve the weight of karma stored in the super conscious primarily through the

practice of specific spiritual techniques, including meditation. In the fire of

scientific meditation one may roast the brain cell grooves of past evil deeds,

and will the awakening of past health and success tendencies.Change your life

patterns by continually doing good karma, so that the

weight of the good within slowly but surely drowns the evil and no matter what

your pain, acquire the tenacity of mind to stay detached in the emotion of each

situation. God has not damned us eternally. Sin is a coating, a parasite. As

souls we descend into earth to work out these sins, and experience the good

karma. When this process of 'working out' is completed we will be free to be

one with God again. Life is prompting us to look at the futility of living

without Him.Depend less on man and opportunity and more on His grace. Continue

to be virtuous even when sorely tried in every possible way. The balance of the

tide will eventually sway your way, and good fortune, happiness, and peace will

be yours for the asking. Yours George Pillai Om Namah Shivaya

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