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Jayashree Raghavan <sai3jaya

Thu Sep 6, 2007 11:46 am

Re: [saibabanews] Karmic Doubts...

 

Siram brother ranganath.B

 

The health problems and other problems in life will come and

go like clouds in the sky. If we do good things we will reap the

good things in future. What swami mean by saying that all sufferings

are karmic effects is that If we had done anything bad in our

previous janma, it leads to ill effects what all happening in our

life today. We can mitigate the vigourousness of the illeffect by

chanting namasmarana. It will only reduce. If once for all the

health problem is setting off due to swami blessings it means that

the concerned person has done some good thing in his pastlife which

is giving fruits as clearance from the illness. Both good and bad

actions will have its fruits in our life. What swami want to say

that you contineously do good things, speak good things, think good.

All the three should co-relate with each other so that there will be

fulness in your activity of doing a good thing. This all good things

which we are doing in this janma will carryforward to next janma and

we will be happy through out our life. When ourbalance of bad

kriya is finished in our past janma, all our good karma's which we

are doing in this janma will glow in our life. This is the essence

of swami teaching as far as I am concerned.

 

Om sri sairam.

JR

 

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Siddhi <lexusatu

Thu Sep 6, 2007 2:10 pm

Re: [saibabanews] Karmic Doubts...

 

Sairam - When God cures you, you are free of that karmic debt

altogether. Let us say, you just did something so good to deserve it

firstly; that you wiped out all that bad karma as well. He does not

expect you to pay for it in some form or other in subsequest lives.

Trust me.

 

Would you want your children to pay for the things that they have

done in their chilhood that are naughty. No. They said sorry and you

forgave them. You do not say. Wait. Let me see, now yo uowe me 20

dollars for that vase you broke when you were two. I know you were

ganted pardon then, but you still owe me that $20 today....

 

KR,

 

Sunetra

 

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natanarama sundaram <nr_sundaram

Thu Sep 6, 2007 3:36 pm

Re: [saibabanews] Karmic Doubts...

 

SAIRAM.Ranganathan.It is true that one has to undergo Karmic fruits

or otherwise.But our Swamy is GOD & knows ur previous births

goods & Bads.HE can do good & Best for anyone in the Universe knowing

everything which ordinary person can not judge or study.Always accept

everything as our SWAMY'S prasadam.SAIRAM.

 

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" DEEPAK RAJYAGOR " <dr0729

Thu Sep 6, 2007 5:10 pm

Re: [saibabanews] Karmic Doubts...

 

Intersting question. Possible answers: Winning God's Grace is very

important. Possibly removing the bad karmic debt. Another possibility

is that the Lord's grace can act as a tranquilizer just like

Morphine , it allows you to work out your Karmic debt but the pain is

reduced.

 

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srinivas Lanka <kashyap_l2k

Thu Sep 6, 2007 9:35 pm

Re: [saibabanews] Karmic Doubts...

 

Dear sairam,

Our vedic wisdom says that once you are in the path of spiritual

sadhana or in philosophical path, god's grace will turn you unfeeling

towards travails one faces in life. Much is said than done. This

needs lot of spiritual expiation to reach such a state of impersonal

beatitude as maharshi's, sages and satpurusha's reached.saibhakths

know how shri shirdi sai took the pangs of his devotees on himself.

His reincarnation Bhagwan Satyasai has proved this on many occasions.

This means the karma phala or fruits of karma cannot be escaped but

Baba makes us spiritually aware of this through his sufferings by

making us temporarily escaped from bearing the karmic fruits. In Guru

charitra, this point has been reiterated several times when sripada

srivallabha and Nrusimha Saraswati had rejuvenated the dead people

back to life and several Lepers back to normalcy by postponing their

karmic fruits to next births.

 

om sairam

srinivas

 

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Harendra Singh <harendra_singh

Thu Sep 6, 2007 10:26 pm

Re: [saibabanews] Karmic Doubts...

 

Dear ranganath

Sai Ram, Your doubt is very genuine. It is very dificult to

understand Karmic theory.Truly speaking Miraculous cures too form

part of Karmic results. We can understand it only when we progress

further on spiritual path to the point that we genuinly understand

and believe that not a blade of grass moves without His Will.

 

Sai Ram

Harendra Singh

 

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jayanthi ramesh <jayanthi_rb

Thu Sep 6, 2007 11:59 pm

Re: [saibabanews] Karmic Doubts...

 

Dear Sai Brother

Even I do have the same doubt for a lon time. My brother-in-law aged

42 died of cancer one and a half years ago which came as a rude shock

to all in our family since we had always been doing good to others.

We do have many examples to cite where the members of my family have

helped people, known and unknown, to the maximum extent possible.

But what we got as a result is the pathetic scene of my sister with

her two daughters without any support. My aged parents could but see

her in this predicament.

In this case, Swamy Himself had given us hope of my Brother-in-law's

survival. I still could not understand what went wrong and where.

when the fruits of our karma are to be suffered, why did Swamy give

us such a hope?

 

Jayanthi Ramesh

 

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" venkata raman " <vssvijay

Fri Sep 7, 2007 2:01 am

Re: [saibabanews] Karmic Doubts...

 

Sairam,

Swami has already said that, if one has firm faith in God

(Rama,Krishna,Sai Baba anybody), and prays devotinally to God then

his sufferings come to end.No need to bear the suffering in the next

coming days. In other words sufferings would not be post-phoned...

(This is only becaouse of HIS Wish and Grace,That much devotion we

should have....)The point here is if GOD wishes(that is his sankalp)

then whatever or whomsoever, sufferings will be vanished.This is to

my knowledge sairam> i submit this answer to the lotus feet of our

beloved sai.

 

Sairam.

 

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" Julie Bauer " <jbauer

Fri Sep 7, 2007 1:01 am

Re: [saibabanews] Karmic Doubts...

 

Beloved Siram,

From what I understand of karma, health situations were created in

our past and past lives by our own choices, misuse of free will and

faulty ego thinking. Health issues will reappear in this incarnation

if we have not dealt with them completely but we have the Will of God

within us to heal these health lessons and move on to the next

lesson. We learn by the Grace of God. If we pay attention to our

lessons weather they be health lessons or other spiritual tests of

faith and see them as a blessing from God to help us evolve we will

be able to move through them more quickly. When we clear them for our

karmic record they do not come back unless we haven't completely

learned the lesson and vowed not to do it again. It is similar to

when by the Grace of the Lord we are healed in mind, body and spirit

by God's Grace that the lesson does not return. I hope this helps

 

Love and Blessings

I AM Julie Anne

 

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" Sailaja.K " <fratern2002

Fri Sep 7, 2007 5:39 am

Re: [saibabanews] Karmic Doubts...

 

SAIRAM,

 

Yes karmas have to be cleared by us. But in some exceptional cases,

under extreme devotion of a devotee God can cancel the karma of the

person. Say for example if the person has to suffer from cancer,

rarely Swami might show grace and can clear it ...n there are some

other cases, where Swami Himself will take the person's illness...in

this case..because of the immense love towards devotee Swami can do

it.

 

Karmas, generally will be solved in 2 ways as far as I understand.

one type: our sthoola rupa..means gross body can take n suffer and

another type, the sukshma body(that which we wont feel) will suffer

with out our knowledge between births. Some karmas can be cleared by

physical suffering of the body while others by mental sufering. Some

karmas can also be cleared by visiting temples, great saints or

Bhagawan, the ULTIMATE

 

So, these gross body sufferings some times cannot be taken by some

people because of their body limitations...say unbearable for them as

per to God's calculations....but if he is exceptionally loving to

Swami n is upto His ideals, Swami still might make him healthy.

 

Important thing is this cancelled karma means complete cancellation

and not like " to be suffered later " This is only restricted to the

cancellation of karma by God..otherwise, karmas in general will be

carried in future births because of our limitations. In the sense,

that God will give us our own fruits whether good or bad till the

extent we can bear in this life, later which the rest will be carried

to the next birth. God is the ultimate judge and a great

mathematician in deciding what has to be suffered at what time....His

calculation never goes wrong and will always be in perfect balance.

 

 

This is my understanding..

 

May the group help you more...

 

Sai Ram,

 

Sailaja

 

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" Gopalakrishnan T R " <trgopalakrishnan

Fri Sep 7, 2007 8:52 am

Re: [saibabanews] Karmic Doubts...

 

Sairam,

 

Swami says that every action (and also inaction) is karma. Karma is

also the consequence of such action or inaction. This may sound

strange, as 'action' is Karma and its 'fruit' is again 'karma'. Many

things we do or behave in certain manner in some situations are

either resulting karma of our past or fresh karma as actions. Hence

Swami repeatedly advises the two fundamental principles - " Help Ever,

Hurt Never " and " Love All, Serve All " . This is also karma, but good

karma.

 

Regarding your genuine doubt about whether karmic fruits will appear

again after Swami has effected a cure, we must try to understand

the 'levels' at which Swami helps. Swami's words are final. Thus, if

Swami says your 'cancer is cancelled', it means just that. The person

has finished the resulting karma of some past actions " up to that

point " . His good karma has brought him in the presence of Swami at

the appropriate time. It could also mean that the karma of that

person has been borne by Swami. Our sense of 'time' and 'suffering'

does not relate to Swami. Swami has been known to take on 'Himself'

the karma of what devotees might go thru' lifetimes and finish it

off in a few seconds or minutes or longer if required. Swami changes

the karmic laws of Nature in such cases. We see the person, but Swami

sees the Soul. Swami sees the past lives and future lives of that

Soul and intervenes when He feels that the devotee has much good work

to offer in this lifetime and the particular disease might be an

hindrance to the good work. Swami has also said that it is best if

all karmas are atoned in this lifetime itself to avoid future births.

 

Mata Amritanandamayi has given a good example of this. She explains

karma by pointing out that if we throw a stone in the air, it is

bound to fall back on earth. That is the Law of Nature (gravity). But

if the same stone is caught while it is falling back, it does not

reach the earth. The 'catching' of the stone is the Divine

intervention by Swami.

 

Regards,

 

T R Gopalakrishnan

 

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" MANI RVS " <colonel.rvs

Fri Sep 7, 2007 2:20 pm

Re: [saibabanews] Karmic Doubts...

 

Dear All

 

OHM JAI SRI SAI RAM

 

Recently in a Tamil Magazine, Kalki, I read the sayings of Sri Sri

Kanchi Maha Periyaval, the Holy Seer. He was referring to the same

point. To motivate the " Haves " to do charity in plenty to help " the

Have-nots " , - his logic of reasoning was quite interesting. In my

limited wisdom, I quote, " We say people suffer because of past karma

and sins committed in earlier life; at the same time, when some

philanthropist do some charity work, some of these people get out of

their problems and become happy. How is it so? - it is only because

our God is taking test of that particular philanthropist. Whether he

understands the suffering of the unfortunate? whether he can

willingly come to their rescue. Once it is done, he ensures that the

poor is no longer poor and in need. " , I un-quote.

 

Let us take it that the life has balances - some good and some bad.

If we continue to do good, our credits go up and as destined, we may

shed this mortal form and become one amongst the Supreme Being. If

our debits are still to be cleared, we may even take more births. In

that process, if we interpose time factor to this process, probably

in the case of the cancer patient, the moment he / she gets the

complete cure, we may safely assume that their debits have got

cleared. Now it is only their credits that would take them to

immortal bliss. The moment they come to know that because of their

prayers and His Almighty's intervention, they got cured, their faith

increases and they no longer do things which may accumulate towards

debits. They become serene and no longer suffer because of past

karmas.

 

That is how as a lay man, I wish to see the problem. Having come out

from death, do you think, even if they suffer later, will it be of

any major consequence? After having blessed them, will Swamy bring

them more troubles. Never. Never. Let more and more of such tribes

getting out of their predicaments increase.

 

At Lord's feet

mani

 

 

 

 

 

saibabanews , " Ranganath. B. " <brngupta

wrote:

>

> Sairam,

>

> I'd a doubt for the past couple of months, reg. KARMA or KARMIC

FRUITS. No solution found till date.

>

> It has been said that, one has to undergo thru' ones' karmic fruits

both good and bad.

>

> Many times, shri baba has mentioned that all the good deeds that

one is doing at this moment are the seeds for the future.

>

> I'd seen many instances from devotee experiences, saying, cancer

fully got cured sort of; and of course many other incidents that our

dearest sai brothers and sisters are posting here, now and then.

>

> If one has to undergo the sufferings of some health problem (or

some other problem(s) in life) according to his past karma... and

incase if it got cured completely (or, one has come out of that

problem) by the grace of shri baba; i doubt, whether the karmic

fruits will appear in some other form/means on a later date?

>

> Awaiting member comments.

>

> Pls. don't think otherwise, don't mistake me. This may help many

other devotees here with less (or nill) faith on spiritual matters.

>

> Regards,

> sairam

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