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What is personal Karma, do animals have it also?
Animals don’t have Karma. The strongest impressions in the mind create a situation that is Karma. These are of three types: Karma is the impression in the mind. Karma is the action that is happening now and Karma is a future impression that the actio ... -
Beloved Guruji, you say that karma cannot be changed. Only grace can change karmic bondage. What is grace and what action can bring grace?
All actions that are evolutionary and all that supports life. Selfless dedicated service. Not that I do some service and think what do I get in return? No, that is not called service. Seva is an act done without wishing for something in return. This a ... -
If the whole existence is one then do we have a joint account of karma?
Yes, there are so many types of karma. 1. Collective karma 2. Karma of the time 3. Karma of a place 4. Karma of a family 5. Karma of an individual There is individual karma, then you have family karma - what you call DNA. Th ... -
Gurudev, what is Karma? How can we attain salvation from our previous karmas?
You attain salvation from knowledge and not from Karma. Karma has its own laws and it goes on. Do good deeds. ... -
Gurudev, I have been doing my kriya regularly for almost a year. What percentage of my past karmas have I repaid?
I will answer this if you tell me how many hairs you have on your head. As long as there is hair and you have a comb, the job is done! What is the point of counting the hairs or counting the teeth on the comb? Karma is unfathomable. Nobody k ... -
Dear Guruji, you say that the same consciousness is present in all living beings, like waves in the ocean. Then how do karma and the world of this lifetime affect the soul in the next lifetime? When the wave has merged back into the ocean, how can its identity be restored?
Just having the knowledge that it has merged with the ocean, the wave achieves mukti (freedom). The bondage of karma lasts only as long as the wave finds itself separate from the ocean. Once the wave realizes that it is not separate from the ocean but an i ... -
Prarabdha karma and sanchita karma
Some karma can be changed and some cannot. When you prepare halwa, if sugar is less or ghee is less, water more or less, it can all be adjusted, repaired. But once soji is cooked, it cannot be reversed. If the buttermilk is sour, milk can be added, salt c ... -
Arguments and wrong action
A person who argues should not be given knowledge. An argumentative mind is not receptive to knowledge. When someone is in an argumentative mood, then giving knowledge or advice is in vain. In an argumentative mood you feel you know it all. Then you are n ... -
Action And Reaction
Action is out of conscious decision. Reaction is out of impulsiveness. Impulsiveness creates a chain of Karma. Reaction, as well as non-action, both create karma, but a conscious action transcends karma. Conscious action does not create new karma whereas, ...