Guest guest Posted May 3, 2007 Report Share Posted May 3, 2007 I looked it up and found this wonderful expose on it. now I get it and I find that this is the spiritual approach that should be applied to jatakas who are suffering and have come for astrological guidance. if they can get this then they can free themselves from the devastation of malefic planetary setups. well maybe in my case this is true: Rnanubandhana A compound word derived from Rna 'cosmic debt' and bandhana 'bondage'. It therefore means 'the debt-bondage' and is a term much beloved of Tantriks. It represents an unusual theory of karma. In this concept, action is not automatically considered as karma. Only if you identify with your action, if the ego is involved and gets stuck to the action as it were, is the action counted as karma. All actions, interactions and even karma furthermore are considered to be caused by hangovers of obligations owed from previous lives, or because of rewards due to you. Karma in this point of view is a vast game of tit for tat played out over innumerable lifetimes - and the more you play the more you are obligated to remain on the playing field! The sensible way out therefore is to realize that your actions are due to some Rna working them out through you, or manifesting their ugly consequences on you because of something you had done in the past. So long as you are equinamous, neither elated at the good that befalls you nor plunged into gloom at the bad that waylays you, you speed up the burning of your karma - the first requirement for enlightenment. To put it another way, Karma is the power of the ego to self-identify with ones actions. The ego does such an apparently destructive thing because it is beneficial for its survival. Death occurs when the ego stops its identification with the physical body, so creating karmas in you is only good survival strategy for the ego. The only way out of the vast mesh of Rnanubandhana is to let all actions occur, not in any passive bovine fashion, but with constant blazing awareness. Accept what is given, give when it is requested of you, and thank God you are getting off lightly! It is admittedly a difficult concept to live up to but it is the only real way forward. Even in the Bhagvad Gita, Krishna explicitly recommends this detachment from karmas. Let there be only actions __________ Raja Gursahani Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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