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The doctrine of karma... the sacred precept of karma can only be understood correctly by following wisdom contained in sacred Bhagavad-Gita of Hinduism! The whole creation... the entire cosmos was not created in seven days but it took billions of years for life supporting planets like Mother Earth to evolve! Bhagavad-Gita of Hinduism is absolutely clear about the creation of cosmos... the entire mankind! As per the sacred Bhagavad-Gita of Hinduism when the dissolution of the old cosmos occurs... the size of entire cosmos reduces to the volume of half a thumb! This half a thumb is the collective power of all purified souls atmans in the cosmos at a given point of time. Devoid of all dross impurities within... the cluster of all souls atmans in the cosmos occupy the size of half a thumb! This half a thumb is what we know as God Almighty... the collective power of all purified souls atmans in the cosmos at a given point of time! This massive primordial power... the enormous cosmic energy unable to retain itself for long in its prime pure state again explodes with a big bang giving rise to a new cosmos... a new journey of life! Does this mean for creation of a cosmos the existence of God Almighty is necessitated yes, the truth is so!
No sooner God Almighty explodes self with a big bang... all purified souls atmans in the cosmos hurtle down their cosmic journey at unimaginable speeds! In the melee... the purified souls' atmans gather impurities similar as a rolling ball gathers moss! It is fairly clear that in a time span of billions of years when souls' atmans have nothing to do... they simply gather impurities! With passage of time as life supporting planets like mother Earth develop... the impure souls atmans immediately start manifesting life! It is through a chain of 8.4 million manifestations... an earthly life cycle of 96.4 million years... every soul atman again regains its lost original pure prime pristine primordial form!
As per the sacred Bhagavad-Gita of Hinduism the definition of karma is absolutely clear! Karma simply facilitates the movement of soul from one manifestation to another... from one body to next! Whatever the residual balance of karma at the time of death of the body... the same becomes the opening balance for the new manifestation... the new journey of life! The entire cosmic life span of 8.4 million manifestations is one life cycle for a soul atman. Initially every soul atman manifests the form of an amoeba (single cell formation)... the first manifestation in the cosmic life cycle. Subsequently it evolves into multi-cell formation... then insect life, plant life, animal life and finally the form of human beings!
Does this mean for reaching the stage of enlightenment (kaivalya jnana) and finally salvation (moksha) God Almighty ordained a journey of 1.1 million manifestations... an earthly life cycle of 12.4 million years in the human form... yes, the truth is so! Enlightenment is not that easily gained... the prime reason why in the last 150 years only two persons gained enlightenment! Karma also termed Karma Sutra in Hinduism is that inherent precept of spirituality devoid which life can not sustain in the cosmic system! In absence of karma... no life could just exist in the cosmic system! The travel of our soul atman from one manifestation to another is through the process of karma... the irrefutable law of karma!
Karma simply does not denote physical working! The complete manifest working of a living being is termed karma! Karma includes actions... the physical manifest part and also inactions (the subtle part of karma that is mentally executed). Every single thought constitutes part of karma... be it positive or negative! On the physical manifest plane the definition of karma would be... as we sow so shall we reap nothing less or more! At any given moment of time our destiny is governed by our karma of the past! At no stage of life God Almighty is responsible for our fate or destiny... still; human beings continue blaming God Almighty for the same! If we desire a good future ahead, in present life or the future manifestations; if we desire manifesting destiny in totality... our indulgence in positive karma... good karma... Punya karma all the time is necessitated! It just cannot be that while indulging in bad karma all the time we expect to reap fruits of positive karma never performed by us!
Indulgence in positive karma results in a sunny dissolution that primarily results from godly thinking all the time! Those indulging in bad karma are the wrongdoers of society... those mongering evil and vice! Can such people ever expect manifesting their destiny ever in life? If we desire treading the spiritual path at any stage of life... our indulgence in positive karma all the time is absolutely essential! A serious seeker of spirituality can never think of indulgence in bad karma that accompanies bad fate or lowly destiny ahead! It is only by establishing a chain of virtues human beings finally transgress the ocean of samsara (worldly life) forever.
After the death of body... it is the residual balance of karma that gets forwarded to next life! The closing balance of present life becomes the opening balance for the next manifestation! The doctrine of karma acts as the accountant general of the cosmic system! From manifestation to manifestation... body after body... the residual balance of karma moves ahead! The moment karma is finally negated forever... human beings reached the stage of enlightenment and salvation! For establishing absolute control over karma... establishing control over five senses and the mind is necessitated! Subsequently practicing absolute celibacy for a period of 12 years in continuation human beings finally awakened their kundalini fully.
By:
Vijay
Kumar "Atma Jnani"
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