Guest guest Posted September 3, 2001 Report Share Posted September 3, 2001 <<What is Karma at all? >> Every action has a reaction. <<But the fundamental question is, if birth is a result of past karma, the first birth must have been preceded by some action. Where was this act committed, that led to the birth? Was this deed inevitable or by choice or accident? If inevitable, what compelled it?>> In eternity, there is not beginning and not end. If we can remember our beginning, we will go mad. We are here because we wanted to be God, to control and enjoy everything. It was a choice because we chose it. It was an accident, because we did dont know the risk. It was inevitable because it was the only path for us to learn and get purified. <<what compelled it?>> Our own curiosity and nature. <<1. If it was a compulsion, the idea of total determinism creeps in: the soul cannot strive for anything at all, but has to drift from one compulsion to another.>> I think so. We have to drift until we get divine intervention. Determinism? I like to give the following example: We are like a bull attached to a rope, from the nose to a pole. We have enough freedom to eat as much as we want as the diametre of that rope allow us. <<Since we have an intellect, the experience is not just to be gone through, but to be mentally analysed and understood. This analysing is an act of free-will.>> Unfortunatelly, most of us do not want to think about it but only at the moment of strees, miseries or nearly death. It is a wisdom opening can. <<An accident, however, would have been most likely corredted quickly and simply, without having to create a planet of such complexity.>> Can you mention any other alternative to correct a rascal like me? << The lerning process is the only explanation that appeals to me. So "choice" seems to be the best, but "compelled". Going to school is compulsory, but what one finally studies is by choice. And not learning the lessons means repeating semesters. By taking up more subjects one can speed up the learning.>> The learning also apeals to me but the problem is that I never learn my lessons and i have to repeat them again and again. So much that i am starting to like this place of sukha and dukha, enjoyment and suffering. <<Rebirth is then not a "result" of past karma, but a continuation of studies>> IMHO, it is both, a result and a continuation. <<The purpose of life is to understand the purpose of life!>> But somehow i am still here, cos i have not understood, otherwise i would not be here. Regards Natabara Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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