Karma

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By being alert, you change the karma that you previously created.

So how to stay alert? Just turn your attention inside.


- Dr. Pillai

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Can we escape the grasp of karma we may have perhaps inherited from the past? How?

Scholars say, it is impossible to escape karma. What they say is true to a certain extent.

Now, you may wonder if there is a way to escape from the consequences of karma. Yes, it is possible for everyone, if they ‘earn’ the grace of the Divine.

Once you deserve and receive His grace, you will not be affected by consequences of Karma. Hence, strive to earn divine grace.

When you earn Divine grace, even if you have to experience the consequences of karma, you will not feel the pain.

Consider the example of a bottle with medicine. The medicine will have an expiry date. After the expiry date, the medicine will lose its potency. Likewise, His grace will make the consequences ‘expire’, and nullify the effects of karma.

The most important aspect here is to ‘deserve’ His Grace. You must cultivate necessary strength and willpower to deserve divine grace, and be free from the shackles of karma.

- Divine Discourse, July 21, 2005.

Learn to love and respect everyone. Then will you earn the grace of the Divine who is the dweller in all beings.

Source: radiosai.org

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What is the one truth in which if we are established, we can break the shackles of action and reaction?

If the world is real, it must be cognized even during the stage of dreamless deep sleep, but we are not conscious of the world during sleep. Hence, the visible world is as unreal as the dream world.

The Universe is a reflection of the Divine. The sky might be reflected in a pot of toddy but that does not defile it. Similarly, in this vehicle called body, the Atma dwells pure and undefiled.

The fruits of action, good or bad, adhere to the vehicle and not to the indweller. When such wisdom dawns, the dark shadows of the three types of Karma flee before it (The three being Sanchita - the entire accumulated Karma; Prarabdha - the Karma whose effects we undergo in the present and Aagami - the Karma we perform now whose results will be felt in the future).

The suffering and travails of this world are illusory and transitory. Fix your mind firmly on this great fact and set out bravely on the path of spiritual practice, the practice of devotion.

- Prema Vahini, Ch 25.

Knowledge that is not put into practice is like food that is not digested.

Source: radiosai.org

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The Akashic Records and How to Read Them

By Steve G. Jones

Source: Read Akashic Records

http://www.mindpowernews.com/AkashicRecords.htm

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This episode he talks about Karma


《罗辑思维第三季》恶之花_134-罗振宇脱口秀-ChinaTalkShow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7178X0DANrg

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An Empowering Glimpse at the World of Karma

Source: Be Well Buzz

http://www.bewellbuzz.com/mind-spirit/e ... rld-karma/

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Why is it meaningless to blame the Divine or others, for our failures and pains?

If you have the misapprehension that the Divine outside is causing good or bad to you, or that He is giving some punishment to you, it is not the right attitude.

This power or strength, which we attempt to describe is not something which is external to and outside you. It is present in you and is in your own self.

The fruits that you get will correspond to whatever seeds you plant. If the seed is of one kind and if you have the ambition to obtain a different fruit, how is it possible?

You may be very clever, but all the cleverness is of no avail if you are not giving up your mean qualities.

Whatever good or bad you may have done, the aspect of the Divine is not going to break the good and bad into separate parts.

The Divine is going to give you an unbroken garland of all the good and all the bad that you have accumulated.

- Summer Showers in Brindavan, 1974, Vol 1, Ch 3.

Realise that the sweetness is within you. Turn your intelligence inwards and discover that sweetness by filling the intellect with love.

Source: radiosai.org

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What is the invisible garland that all of us wear, since our birth?

When born from the mother’s womb, you did not have a necklace of pearls or gold. You neither had a necklace of diamond nor one of emerald round your neck. But, whatever good or bad deeds you may have done in your past are brought along with you when you are born.

This is the invisible garland which everyone wears round one’s neck. By doing a good act, you cannot get an evil result and by doing a bad act, you cannot accumulate good.

Whatever kind of work you do, the result will correspond to that. Therefore, it follows that today you should make up your mind to do only good things and thus you will reap, in your future lives, the benefit of only good things.

You should do good and thus aspire to get good for yourself.

- Summer Showers in Brindavan, 1974, Vol 1, Ch 3.

It is only when one engages in selfless service that love can be purified.

Source: radiosai.org

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Karma of the Brain: Why Good Things Happen to Good People

Yes, helping others makes us feel warm and fuzzy, but new research suggests that doing good deeds can actually help people live longer, healthier lives.

By Siri Agrell

Source: The Globe and Mail

http://www.mindpowernews.com/BrainKarma.htm

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Can Grace overrule Karmic consequences or destiny?

You might say that the karma of the previous birth has to be consumed in this birth and that no amount of grace can save man from that.

Evidently, someone has taught you to believe so. But I assure you, you need not suffer from karma like that.

When a severe pain torments you, the doctor gives you a morphine injection and you do not feel the pain, though it is there in the body.

Grace is like the morphine; the pain is not felt, though you go through it! Grace takes away the malignity of the karma which you have to undergo.

There are also dated drugs, which become ineffective after a certain time. Well, so too, with Grace, the effect of karma is rendered null, even though you go through the experience! Hence, it is wrong to say the "fate written on the forehead cannot be rendered ineffective".

Grace can surpass anything; nothing can stand in its way. Remember, it is the grace of the the Divine!

- Divine Discourse, 23 Nov 1964.

The Divine’s Grace is the best insurance policy. It will help you in your time of need without any limits!

Source: radiosai.org