What is karma
The concept of karma includes the knowledge that the human soul is immortal, only our incarnation changes. From each reincarnation we bring baggage of unprocessed programs into a new life.
Our task is to come to an understanding of our karma, that is, what we need to work through in this incarnation. While we come to this understanding, it is important to observe the karmic laws so as not to increase the baggage of sins.
These laws include:
- Balance. One of the basic laws of the Universe is balance. When you receive, you must give, and when you give, you must receive. If you do not maintain this balance yourself, then the Universe will do it for you.
- Everything comes back. Any action you take comes back in the form of some situations or circumstances, both good and bad. You should not expect good if you have done evil.
- Adoption. Allow the Universe to make adjustments in your life. You must accept any experience you have, since you can only develop spiritually through acceptance. Any condemnation of others and the search for those to blame will return you to a lower level.
- The more a person resists and shifts blame, the more problems fall on him. By non-acceptance, he only blocks the energy channel.
- Responsibility. A person must accept the fact that everything that he has now is the result of his efforts in the past and current incarnation. To begin to grow spiritually, a person must take responsibility for what happens to him.
- Nothing is given for nothing. Any wish will come true only after effort. It is impossible to achieve a harmonious life through the power of thought or asceticism alone. However, the greatest reward for a person should be the joy of doing the right things. That is, you need to receive good emotions now, and not put them off until the moment when what you want becomes a reality. This is due to the fact that any positive emotion has a strong impact on our lives.
- Situations will repeat. Until you accept an important lesson, the situation will repeat itself in every incarnation and repeatedly. You do not have the opportunity to refuse the experience, you only need to accept it and work through it.
Life is given to learn
Our life can be compared to school. Each of us selects a training program before the start of the life cycle. You incarnate precisely at the moment when all the conditions on this “school planet” correspond to your request.
Like a gardener patiently nurturing a plant, each person must process his or her own experience carefully and slowly.
So, you have created a request for a new experience and received permission to incarnate. An environment is being formed on earth that is ready to receive you. What will determine the conditions of your existence and the quality of your experience?
Your environment is determined by the quality of your karma - good and bad, the sum of past actions - the “karmic mass” accumulated over all your past incarnations.
It doesn’t matter whether you had past lives or not, whether you lived through all your existing experience, or whether you simply inherited it along with your current personality and role. The fact is that you experience it while you are in that particular body.
Let's consider an analogy, compare education, say, at Harvard and at the university of a small provincial town.
Studying at Harvard provides the opportunity for further career growth, the opportunity to conduct experiments, and the likelihood of receiving a cash grant for scientific research. A provincial university cannot provide such broad opportunities.
Which university you go to will depend on your karmic accumulations.
How to understand that karma needs improvement
Eastern sages believe that the soul is immortal. When a person dies, it moves from his body to another, taking with it the sins of the previous “owner”. There are many such reincarnations, so gradually a load of misdeeds, dark thoughts and crimes accumulates in the soul, forming bad karma. Sins committed in the current life are added to it.
Until the mistakes of the past are corrected, a person will not be able to find happiness. This continues even if, after the next reincarnation, you stop committing unseemly acts.
Improving your karma will help correct the situation.
It is necessary for people who:
- constantly face failure, disappointment and heartache;
- often get sick, they suffer from rare diseases that are incurable or difficult to treat;
- cannot arrange their personal life or achieve mutual understanding with loved ones;
- experiencing financial difficulties;
- unable to find a good job, achieve career growth and success in the business they have started.
The listed problems can be observed not only in the owner of bad karma, but also in his close relatives. This indicates a family curse, which is formed if one of the family members has committed too many bad deeds in previous lives.
Bad Karma: 5 Important Signals
To determine how serious your karma is, you need to listen to yourself and pay attention to the following signals:
- You will not reach a new level of life - life constantly brings you back. You earn a million, but then your car breaks down so much that you have to spend almost the entire amount on a new one. As soon as you have achieved a promotion through backbreaking work, you fall ill and the position is transferred to another person. These and many other repeated situations indicate bad karma. In simple terms, you cannot take more than what is given from above. And this is felt whenever you try to take a step higher.
- Dysfunctional family or lack thereof. To better understand a person’s karma, just look at his family and the circumstances that he had to go through as a small child. Dysfunctional families include not only those in which the parents drink and lead a marginal lifestyle. A dysfunctional family also includes those parents who suppress and break the will of the child, destroying him morally from childhood.
- Financial disadvantage. There are people who have never held large sums of money in their hands, have never purchased real estate or indulged themselves in shopping. If you have been working all your life, but no matter how hard you try, you don’t see money, then take this signal more carefully, since money is energy. People with good karma and the right energy can easily earn the amount of money they need.
- Poor health. You have never smoked, but you manage to get sick with a serious disease that affects long-term smokers. You have never drank alcohol, but your liver suffers as if you had been on a drinking binge for a long time. You are trying to eat healthy and organic food, but your health is already very precarious, although you are not even 40 years old. This also includes diseases in childhood with healthy parents. Such people are susceptible to many diseases for no reason, although tests may not reveal the reason for such low immunity.
- Repeated negative situations. If you need to learn a lesson, then fate will send you the same situations until you work through them. If you don’t have enough awareness to do this in your current incarnation, then the same thing awaits you in the next incarnation, and so on until you accept this experience.
Why does bad karma happen?
Our karma follows us through every reincarnation.
As we work through it, our present and future life can improve, or, conversely, it can only get worse.
How you will live in your current incarnation, and what fate is in store for you in the next incarnation depends on how you work on yourself.
Mother and child
How can a mother work off her child’s karma? The child did not come into your family by chance. You coincided on an energetic level, so a daughter can repeat the fate of her mother, a son can grow up to be a scoundrel, like his father, or wise and hard-working.
Children also work out the karmic program of the family. If a mother does not respect her husband, then the daughter will treat her man the same way. This situation will continue until someone from this family learns to respect men, forgive them, accept them for who they are
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That is, again everything goes through forgiveness. If he offended you, then ask for forgiveness for bringing the person to grief. This way you will “cut off” the negative programs of your parents and your own, which stretch from past incarnations. Why were you offended? Because you once offended someone. It came back to you.
Be sure to ask God for forgiveness for your sin, because offense is a sin; thank the Creator that you still have such an opportunity - to ask for forgiveness and forgive. Let tears flow from your eyes when you ask for forgiveness, this is a cleansing of the soul.
Never hate your husband and children, so as not to harm the health of your children. If you wanted to have an abortion, but gave birth to this child, then beg your decision hundreds of times.
If you have a child, then he needs your love and the love of his parents for each other. A child who grows up in love is filled with it, and then he can give it to other people and can build a happy family. Through your relationships in the family, you can change your child’s karma for the better.
Why improvement is needed
Achieving ideal karma is the path to solving many life problems.
Bad karma is absolutely the opposite of ideal. It assumes the presence of problems in all or some areas of life. If a person is haunted by constant failures and negativity, then his karmic debts exceed the profits from good deeds.
You can determine that karma has a minus sign by the following signs:
- events occurring in life are perceived, for the most part, as negative, they always fit into a single system, that is, they have some common element;
- any attempts to change the situation, to improve it, lead to disastrous results, the help of other people is also of no use;
- there are restrictions in social life, fixation on the same ideas, thoughts, events;
- energy leakage, disturbances in the energy information structure.
Negative karma negatively affects a person’s destiny, clogging all areas of his life with karmic garbage, from health and financial well-being to relationships with people around him. The debts accumulated in all reincarnations will result in diseases of the body and soul, poverty, addiction to alcohol, drugs, unsuccessful marriages and other negative consequences. Therefore, bad karma must be changed for the better.
Live forever, learn forever
Human life is very reminiscent of an ordinary school. Everyone’s soul chooses a training program for itself even before it is realized in the physical body. And the incarnation itself occurs specifically when all the conditions on the planet-school Earth are one hundred percent responsive to our request. Any person will have to go through his own personal experience necessary for the upcoming improvement.
When the soul has formed a request to gain new experience, it must wait for permission to incarnate. At this time, an environment is being formed on earth into which you can enter. What will still influence the conditions of your earthly life and the experience you gain?
Your retinue depends on the properties of your karma - negative and positive, as well as the summation of past deeds - in other words, the karmic mass that was accumulated during past incarnations.
With all this, it is completely unimportant how many lives you have already lived, whether you have lived all the experience yourself or whether it was inherited for you as well as your peculiarity and role in life. But the fact remains that you are constantly faced with various actions during your stay in a certain physical shell.
You can give various pleasant examples - for example, studying at Harvard Institute and an institute in a small provincial town. By studying at Havard, you will have the opportunity to develop your skills and build a career in the future, and you will not be short of money. As for the provincial institute, it does not provide the same immense abilities.
So this is the institution in which you will find yourself - this is influenced by your karmic past accumulations.
How to correct a person's karma?
More and more often on the Internet you can see advertisements offering to correct karma. At such sessions, masters will tell you how to improve your destiny using various techniques. It is not at all necessary to resort to the help of specialists. It is quite possible to improve it yourself.
First of all, you need to watch your vocabulary. Obscene language and swear words should be eliminated from everyday life. In addition, there are words that attract negative energy and unwanted events, for example: nightmare, horror, ugliness, etc. You should avoid using such words in conversation.
You shouldn’t get involved in other people’s lives and advise them on what to do. Thus, a person takes responsibility for the decisions of other people and harms his karma.
It is necessary to show attention and care to others. Selflessly performed good deeds create a positive aura, and if it becomes a habit, you can notice how life changes for the better.
Don't be rude or rude to the service staff. By wishing a good day to a salesperson in a store or thanking a consultant for his help, a person gradually changes his karma. Politeness and a smile are pleasant for anyone.
Self-development will help you learn how to change your destiny. You should stop expressing dissatisfaction with the world around you and stop wasting time on social networks and television.
Spiritual and physical development will help get rid of negative emotions and aggression. By properly planning your day, you can devote your free time to reading literature and educational books, as well as physical practices, such as yoga. In addition to your head, it’s worth getting your home in order.
It is not recommended to store broken things, cracked dishes, or non-working equipment at home, because all these things carry the energy of destruction. Items and clothing that are not used should be given away or thrown away. They not only clutter up space, but are also a source of negative, stagnant energy.
Do not forget about timely cleaning and order in the house.
How to change karma
There are several ways to change your karmic situation in a certain area of life. Karma can be lived, corrected, cleansed.
How to live karma? Everything that happens to us happens in our mind. Reactions to what is happening are born in it. Our desires are the result of the work of the organs of perception. And our rejection also occurs in it.
Remember when you were sick. Perhaps you had a headache or a sore throat, or maybe all at once. You had no appetite or desire to do anything at all. You lay, slept, rolled around, and only thought about how to get better as quickly as possible, because you felt extremely bad.
And the next time someone sick is near you, you will try to reduce contact with this person to nothing. Because the memories of that serious illness are still fresh in my memory. And you absolutely don’t want to experience all this discomfort and pain again. Where did the memories originate? In the mind. Yes, as acutely as if you were back in bed for a minute with a high fever.
Or let's take another situation. An angry ferocious dog is chasing you and you are trying your best to escape from it. You are very scared, and as luck would have it, your legs are so weak from fear that instead of running faster, you slow down and the dog is about to catch up with you.
You have experienced all the horror of the upcoming meeting. And somewhere they even felt pain from her bite. But when she is ready to sink her sharp fangs into you, you suddenly wake up. It should be noted with a feeling of great relief. It was just a dream.
How to remove negative karma? Cleansing karma
In order to “heal” your past life and get rid of negative karma, you need to:
1. Sit down, relax and go into a light trance. In this state, you need to call on your Higher Self (you can have a Guardian Angel, Angels of Karma, Angels of Love) and ask him for help and protection while working to heal the karmic situation.
2. Then, before your inner gaze, you need to imagine a long corridor with many doors - these are your past lives.
3. You need to ask your Higher Self to show where the source of such and such a problem is.
4. Next, you should head to the door that somehow stood out among the others (this will happen intuitively).
5. You need to open the door and enter it. Everything that appears behind it must be carefully examined by the observer. You can ask your Higher Self to show exactly the situation in your past life that caused your current problems.
5. Everything that is discovered must be reproduced again in consciousness, but in a positive way.
6. After working out the situation, you must definitely thank your Higher Self, then you can get out of the trance.
How to improve karma and get rid of negative energy (purification)
Of course, in this situation, everyone involuntarily thinks about the life they have lived and wonders how to improve karma? And is it possible to improve it at all, or is it, like a blank slate, only deteriorating throughout its life? Karma can and should be improved. Just like a blank sheet of paper, the writing and scribblings you have made can be drawn out. All you need to do is choose the right stain removers. The best one is bug fixing. However, when correcting your mistakes, you cannot rely only on compensation or substitution. You need to feel your mistake, and the universe itself will tell you how to correct it. The result will be an improvement in life. A person who has corrected mistakes must become wiser. If this does not happen, then the error was corrected incorrectly.
You should also not abruptly cross out the past and try to start a new life from scratch. Karma simply doesn't understand this. By crossing out your past and disowning your past mistakes, you will only aggravate the situation and bring upon yourself even more trouble.
You can also improve your karma by doing more good deeds and deeds. Think about how to get rid of negative energy. The Universe counts everything and the color of your karma changes. However, it may take a lot of perfect goodness before improvements occur in your life, this is the nature of karma. It all depends on the number and severity of your past actions, which are known to you alone. You should not make calculations on the number of sins and good deeds. Accounting will not help here. The Universe will let you know when you clear your karma. You will be visited by a feeling of relief and spontaneous joy.
Based on the doctrine of karma, every person in the world needs to become kinder and more sympathetic. Human beings are interdependent creatures and come from a common flow, and the quality of this relationship also determines the quality of the common flow, which is the beginning of the flow of each of us. For this reason, there is no need to categorize people and selectively help people. The need to help people and do good deeds will also be prompted by karma.
General concept of karma
Karma acts as a reflection of the cause-and-effect relationship between events of the past, real and future. To understand how this works in life, you need to remember the famous Russian proverb: “What goes around comes around.”
Also, Mary Brown, who is a scientist and psychologist and has been researching karma and its issues for 20 years, spoke very well about karma. She calls karma “the universal law of cause and effect.”
People get only what they deserve - fruits that have grown from seeds sown with their own hands. In other words, by sending love into the world around us, you will receive love in return, and literally hatred, malice and anger will also boomerang back.
How women and men should act: differences
When improving karma, one should take into account the characteristics of male and female energy. Men are more active, they strive forward, sometimes stepping over other people’s feelings and interests, thereby disturbing the karmic balance and creating unfavorable fluctuations in the energy-informational space. To improve karma, representatives of the strong half of humanity need to direct all their strength not to destruction, but to creation, in which case their assertiveness and determination will allow them to accumulate karma with a “plus” sign.
Women, on the contrary, strive with their soul and body for harmony with the entire Universe, their energy is not prone to destruction, their behavior is intuitive, and their actions are emotional. The main task of every representative of the fair sex on earth is to give life and create something new. However, for some it is not easy to follow such a road, so they retreat from it and devote all their efforts to improving other areas of their life, for example, they are guided solely by reason, destroying the fragile feminine energy, for which they are often punished by loneliness.
To improve karma, a woman must first change herself, intuitively determine her true purpose, based on her own feelings.
Making your karma better and bringing goodness into life is not difficult. To do this, you need to follow the elementary laws of the Universe and remember: karma is a kind of boomerang that will return to a person only what he sent to others.
Correcting past mistakes
The first step towards improving karma is correcting the mistakes a person has made in this life. To do this, he should realize his sins and repent of them.
Sincere repentance allows you to clear your mind, look at problems differently, gain new life guidelines and the desire to live without violating biblical laws. After the ritual of repentance, a person’s state of mind stabilizes, thoughts change for the better, and the soul begins to strive for love. To consolidate the result, you need to do a good deed that will give moral satisfaction.
Sincerely repent of your evil deeds, the soul will be cleansed and will strive for love.
Principles and rules for improving karma
To get rid of bad karma and attract good luck into your life, you must act in accordance with the karmic law:
- Fill your mind with positive thoughts. To do this, you need to identify what causes negative emotions and try not to think about it. If bad thoughts continue to come to mind, then you need to learn to displace them with the opposite ones. Gradually, a person will begin to look at the world around him positively, and bad emotions will no longer affect his mood and actions.
- Always tell the truth. Anyone who has been caught in a lie even once will never enjoy the trust of decent people. But even if the lie can be hidden, it will become a heavy burden for the liar, since he will be afraid that the deception will come to light. Experiences will lead to mental anguish, deterioration of health and karma.
- Live meaningfully. You need to set a goal, make a plan for achieving it and follow it without fear of possible obstacles. Achieving what you want will increase self-esteem and allow you to live in harmony with yourself.
- To do good. It is possible to correct karma with the help of free good deeds. By helping others, a person can be sure that in difficult times they will also be helped. In addition, good deeds will fill his life with meaning.
Do good deeds for free, take care of your loved ones and you will be rewarded.
Karma is the law of justice
How then to explain cases when a person does nothing wrong, tries to live better, helps others, and yet his life is full of difficulties and problems? And a person who leads a dishonest lifestyle receives wealth and joy?
This state of affairs in our lives often causes a feeling of injustice and pain of disbelief.
This is where it’s worth remembering about reincarnation. Karma and reincarnation are interrelated concepts, one stems from the other.
We cannot know who exactly the righteous man of the present was in the past. Perhaps now he has to pay off a large number of debts, which is why his life is so difficult. Perhaps he wanted to experience the experience of sacrifice, or his karmic task is associated with the experience of bestowal and renunciation.
The villain in the current life could have been a religious and dogmatic person in the past. Having accumulated a positive amount of karma by performing rituals and doing charity, he is now using up his karmic potential. Or his current experience must be related to the “role of a villain”, since in the past he condemned the behavior of others, positioning himself as a sinless person.
Of course, every rule has exceptions, and painful distortions sometimes provoke a person to commit terrible acts. But now we will not consider such deviations.
One of the meanings of the word karma is action. Our every action is recorded in a symbolic “karmic journal”. We are given a plus or a minus. This is an immutable law of the physical world. And this law is not limited to current life.
When is the best time to start clearing karma?
Cleaning karma is daily deep spiritual work. You need to start cleaning karma only when you yourself feel this need within yourself.
Until the moment of awareness, it is pointless to influence karma.
Apologize to everyone you offended
We may not want it, but sometimes we still say hurtful things to those people who care about us. We all have complex emotions and different opinions, which in turn leads to arguments and misunderstandings from time to time.
Stop beating yourself up if you hurt someone and instead just apologize so you can move on. You and this person may go your separate ways after this, but at least there will be no negative energy left between you.
Give love to everyone
Another way to correct bad karma is to love everyone and everyone around you, even if they cannot love you back. It will hurt you at first, but over time it will help you clear your karma. You will also learn to help those who need your help most, so this method has many advantages. Loving your enemies is not easy, but it is necessary in order to clear your mind and direct your spiritual energy to something else. Think about what our world would be like if all people simply loved each other without any restrictions or conditions.
Have patience
Each of us is accustomed to instant gratification, so many people nowadays lack patience. By learning to be patient, we can clear our karma and discover ourselves on a deeper level. During a conversation, really listen to your interlocutor, instead of constantly waiting for the moment when you can say something. Don't expect everything to be served to you on a silver platter. If you work hard, stay positive, and take everything in life calmly, it will help you clear your karma.
To learn from your mistakes
Even bad experiences can teach us something valuable and make us more submissive. Not every experience turns out to be something positive for us, but life does not always give us what we want; she gives us what we need. Don't forget this the next time you're going through a difficult time. Learning to remain grateful despite your circumstances will help you clear your karma.
Live meaningfully by setting goals for yourself
In order to constantly improve your own karma, you need to live meaningfully, for the benefit of yourself, your family and the people around you. To achieve this, you need to set specific goals and move towards them. Let these initially be simple goals that are not difficult to achieve. Gradually you will begin to raise rates, and your plans will become more global.
The most amazing thing is that as you move towards your goal, you will be charged with positive, creative energy, which will help you move forward and will not allow you to give up in difficult situations. And a priori, people who live for the sake of good ideas cannot have bad karma.
Think positively
Our thoughts become the foundation for everything we build in our lives. If you think positive thoughts, you will end up happier and freer. According to the laws of attraction and karma, negative thoughts will only attract more negativity into your life. To clear your karma, focus on positive thoughts and block all negative ones. This will make your life more fruitful and bring you more satisfaction.
Learn calmness and tranquility
On the long and thorny path of self-development and purification of karma, many difficulties and obstacles await you. It is not surprising that when you make efforts to achieve your goal, you will become frustrated, irritated, nervous and afraid to take the next step. These are completely normal reactions of the body that you should not be afraid of. It is important not to give up and not turn back. To do this, you will need to learn calmness and tranquility.
Perhaps each of us has heard about Buddhist monks who live in harmony with the world around them because they know how to relax and achieve the highest degree of peace. You can also work on your mind through meditation. When you learn to focus on your thoughts, cutting off the negative and leaving the positive, you will begin to generate creative energy, thereby improving your karma.
See the world more broadly
To make your life better and richer, you need to learn to look at this world with different eyes. It is much more beautiful and diverse than we imagine! Leave your usual hustle and bustle, do something new, something you’ve never done before. Visit new countries, make new friends, read books you've never read.
Just look around! Everything that surrounds us is incredibly beautiful: the sky, the water, the air, and the people around us. Learn to see this beauty in every leaf plucked from a tree, in every drop of rain, and you will feel like you are part of this multifaceted world. As soon as this understanding touches you, you will become a little happier.
Give thanks
The energy of gratitude supports healthy energy exchange between people. For example, if you received something, but did not thank it, you will definitely have a deficiency somewhere, since the main energy law is exchange and balance. Karma does not give a person the opportunity to only receive without due gratitude.
Start repeating daily gratitude affirmations, for example: “thank you for having a home”, “thank you for feeling good” - thank the Universe for all the things that you have, and then you can cleanse your karma and get more.
Gratitude awakens higher vibrations, you learn to appreciate and love life, no matter what situation you find yourself in.
Give energy
In our world it is customary to take, and the more, the better. Energy is money, strength, attention, love, care.
If a person only takes energy from others, but is not ready to share, then ultimately this will lead to complete collapse. Such a person can get sick and lose what is important to him. And this will be repeated until a person finds the strength to give his energy to the world.
The easiest way to cleanse karma through the release of energy is to help everyone in need. For example, you see that an elderly person cannot cross the road. You are faced with a choice: help or go further. By helping, you will expend energy and evoke gratitude from the other person, which will have a positive effect on your karma.
Help everyone around you: loved ones, distant ones, strangers. Don't remain indifferent to others, and you will begin to notice how your life gets better.
Remember that thoughts must be pure. If you calculate every action and relate it to your sins, then you will not be able to correct your karma.
Prayers
Sincere prayer can heal and cleanse the soul of accumulated negativity and garbage. And, as a result, clear karma. It doesn’t matter what religion a person belongs to. The message is important - the more sincere it is, the more powerful the prayer will work.
Learn to dissolve in prayer, let go of the mind and dissolve in prayer, and then its power will be felt.
Asceticism
To observe asceticism means to voluntarily give up something in order to elevate yourself. There are austerities for clean eating, control of speech (you cannot speak negatively), sexual abstinence, control of thoughts, hermitage and much more.
This method is considered radical and will help in a critical situation.
Journaling
It is impossible to remember all your thoughts, and therefore they are difficult to control. In a diary you need to record your thoughts, feelings, emotions and actions.
An exercise like this helps to consciously work on mistakes and learn to better control emotions.
The importance of controlling emotions is undeniable - most destructive actions are committed under the influence of emotions.
If the question has arisen in your head about how to clear karma yourself, then you are already on the right path. After cleaning and starting to live according to the laws of karma, your life will improve, and the Universe will generously give you new opportunities!
How to improve your karma
If there is no meaning in all the external actions of a person, then the meaning must be within the personality itself. We build cities to experience the greatness of man. We fight to become heroes. We keep important things to remember. We accumulate wealth to make a great gift. We are building a temple in our own hearts that will never be empty. We love those who leave to find true, everlasting love.
Of all forms of human consciousness, the best of people is considered to be the one who knows how to do good to others. And among those who do good, the best are those who create a well-ordered society, to govern which the most pious are elected. Of all pious persons, the one who is interested in the Absolute Truth is considered the best. And of all those who are interested, those who know it rise even higher. A step higher are those who have already cognized the Supreme Spirit. And at the very top of evolution is a person who has achieved love for God.
If people knew their destiny, most of them would be confused by the futility of their lives.
No doubt the laws of karma are very powerful, but the scriptures say that transcendental knowledge burns up karma, just as fire burns up wood. This is knowledge, not worldly, but true, which gives a person freedom of choice. Karma cannot be unraveled, it can be cut. And the law of karma is not the highest law, because the highest law is freedom of choice and knowledge.
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Karma is work, and you can act at the level of mind, speech and at the level of actions. A person works in order to get something in return, on a gross or subtle level, so karma begins with the desire for some kind of benefit. No work can be done without a strong enough desire. Everyone wants to have wealth or knowledge, power or strength, beauty or renunciation. Therefore, people are active and cannot stop even for a moment. This is how we acquire the consequences of our activities, which are also called karma and determine our future destiny. It goes from the past through the present to the future.
Karma is work, and you can act at the level of mind, speech and at the level of actions.
An action is a seed. Over time, it will sprout and become a tree. And the tree, in turn, will bloom and bear fruit. In the same way, any action brings a certain fruit. What it will be like can be judged by what kind of seed was planted. What goes around comes around. We do good deeds, bad deeds and mixed ones. Therefore, their fruits can also be of three types - good, bad or mixed. And a person feels them in the form of happiness or various kinds of suffering. Having done a good deed, we will receive good fruit in the future. Thus, happiness must be paid for with good deeds. But if we don't want to pay, suffering comes to us. You don't need to pay anything for them. For example, someone might say, “I don’t do anything bad to people. Why doesn't anyone respect me? Because you're not doing anything good. According to this law, a person is obligated to be happy, otherwise he will be punished with suffering.
Work done in ignorance brings destruction and misfortune. Such actions are committed by children or stupid people. A child lights matches - what's wrong with that? But as a result, the house burns down.
When work is associated with a passionate desire for profit, it brings some temporary benefits, but increases human vices such as greed or pride. Having gained wealth and power, a person usually becomes worse.
Pious activities include such actions as: helping society; participate in social, public, educational life; charity; helping the poor; compassion towards sick people; fulfill your professional and family responsibilities very well and responsibly; raise a good son; ascetic simple life; dig wells where water is needed; plant trees; bring benefit and benefit to everyone and many other actions.
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Work connected with the highest principles of virtue purifies our consciousness and brings a feeling of happiness. When a person does good to people, they become his friends, confirming the proverb: don’t have a hundred rubles, but have a hundred friends.
So, by choosing one of these activities, everyone will receive its consequences in the future. In addition, we must take into account that at the present moment we must work off the karma of the past and receive the fruits of actions once committed. Therefore, the main thing for us is to make the right choice and act in a way that will benefit us.
Work connected with the highest principles of virtue purifies our consciousness and brings a feeling of happiness.
You can notice that good and bad, as a rule, are mixed in a person. This happens because ordinary people are fickle in their choices. And it is very difficult to be bad and good at the same time. So much internal struggle, so much repentance, blessings and curses, ups and downs. Such is human life. We carry these contradictions within us from past lives and take them with us into the future.
However, no matter what happened in the past and no matter what awaits us in the future, we always remain in the present, in the place where we can make our choice. Man creates the future right now. People who constantly think about the future and do not notice the present are mistaken. Their future will remain forever in their imagination. It will never come true.
Look at Vasnetsov’s painting “The Knight at the Crossroads.” This is the moment of the present. Where to go? To set out on a journey towards your own destiny, you need to be a hero or a very wise person. And indeed, would a person agree to do what he is doing now if he knew in advance what it would lead to?
V.M. Vasnetsov “The Knight at the Crossroads”
In addition to pious and sinful activities, there is also akarma - activity that does not bring results, or inaction. This interesting term concerns our purpose, that is, an activity that does not bring either good or bad, or any material results.
Akarma is intended to improve human qualities. Understanding this, a wise person renounces not the activity itself, but the sense of ownership in relation to its fruits. He knows: in this world nothing belongs to him, because he comes with nothing and leaves with nothing. “You are dust and you will return to dust.” Understanding this, a wise person works not to accumulate wealth, but to rise spiritually.
If we are honest, we should not be afraid of the law of karma.
True love is selfless, self-sufficient and does not need material support. On the contrary, all material relationships require that they be based on love, otherwise they become unpleasant. In fact, every person wants to serve out of pure love, without any admixture of profit. When a person acts in this frame of mind, for him there is no longer any sin, no virtue, no hell, no heaven. Whatever he does, he receives no bad or good karma. This is the path of soul liberation, or akarma.
The meaning of life is to find true happiness, for this you can endure suffering. But in order to learn about the highest happiness, a person needs to live many lives, or at least one as a human being. Having conquered the base nature within himself, a person can see that above the world of violence and the struggle for survival there is a completely different world. It is impossible from the point of view of material laws, but it fully corresponds to the desires of any living being - this is a world of love, eternity and the highest knowledge.
If you do good things for people, consider yourself lucky.
The highest virtue is the transmission of spiritual knowledge. Life is very short, and there are a lot of sins, you don’t need to work with karma, you need to light the fire of eternal transcendental knowledge. We must turn to higher energies.
If we want to be happy, then we need to learn to give, to sacrifice something, this is the path to happiness. If we do not sacrifice anything for other people, then the laws of nature do not give happiness. Happiness is based on sacrificing your speech, your strength, your energy, your pride, your life. The path of happiness is difficult, but this is the path of the Hero.
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Consider your past karmic debts and correct them.
Use self-punishment to mitigate karma - that is, if you realize that you have committed a bad act, do not wait for your karma to manifest itself, atone for your sin, then there is a high probability that karma will not deteriorate even more. Hindus understand self-punishment as adopting certain poses, but if you do not practice yoga and other Hindu teachings, then it is preferable for you to consciously do something to the detriment of yourself, but for the benefit of the person who suffered from your actions. Make it a rule to do at least one good deed a day. It's not as difficult as it might seem at first glance. You just have to start... No one demands from you a feat or unbearable actions. It is quite enough to be attentive to the interests and needs of others, to be a friendly and polite person. Don't wish harm on others. What is said out loud is equivalent to what is said mentally. Don't curse anyone. If the past is burdened by “cobblestones” (curses from your mouth), use self-punishment. Be righteous, don’t be selfish, take care of those who need it, don’t ignore other people’s misfortunes - all this will help you get rid of unnecessary, burdensome burden.
How not to return to the past
When thinking about whether it is possible to change karma, people often do not realize that because of one wrong action, all the efforts spent will be reduced to zero.
Those who want improvements in life can be hindered by:
- Accusations. By shifting the blame for one's own mistakes or failures onto someone else, a person tries to remove responsibility from himself. For someone who is the master of his own destiny, such behavior is unacceptable. By giving up the habit of blaming, you can stop depending on circumstances and start living without regard for others.
- Complaints. The one who complains acts as a victim, giving himself over to negative thoughts and emotions. The more complaints he makes, the more he depends on external circumstances and loses control over himself.
- Excuses. Confident people do not make excuses either to others or to themselves, and perceive any mistakes as an experience that allows them to become stronger and better. Excuses upset your inner balance. If a person has committed a crime, he needs to calmly accept this fact and try not to commit such offenses in the future.
Thanks to actions aimed at improving karma, it will be possible to achieve some changes in fate now. But you shouldn’t expect drastic changes, since complete purification of the soul will require several reincarnations.
