9 Dec 2011 - QA 5

Guruji, I have been doing my kriya regularly for almost a year. What percentage of my past karmas have I repaid?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: 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 knows how much karma is there and everyday new karmas are being made.
Then there is individual karma, there is a family karma, there is collective karma.
Nowadays what doctors say is a family history, in ancient medical language they used to call it family karma.
So there are different types of karmas and we get rid of these karmas every day when we do sadhana. Bad karmas go and good karmas increase.
When you are doing good karmas, a portion of that good karma also goes to people around you. Your family, friends and everybody get a share of it.
It is absolutely fascinating to go into the realm of karma because it is so unfathomable. There is no end to the depth of it. It is almost like trying to measure the depth of the ocean which is so vast.
But when you have to sail through the ocean you don’t need to know the depth of the ocean. What is the point in measuring the depth? You are anyway going in the boat.
Knowledge and devotion are like the boat in which you sail through the ocean of the karma. You don’t need to know how deep it is. Anyway you are not going to swim or walk through the water.