Law of Karma
What is Karma?
Any Activity
Every task we do is a karma. Karma is an activity, which all the
human beings have to perform, until death releases them from this
body prison.
Kriya and Karma
Kriya – Natural Activity
Kriya is a natural activity, which we perform in our day-to-day life,
without thinking, questioning or seeking anybody's advice. If you get a
nature's call, you would immediately run to the toilet, without thinking
or consulting anybody. Every morning we get up, brush our teeth,
take bath, wear clothes and go to work, or go to the garden, take
some exercises, and do many more such acts. Such acts are known
as Kriya.
Karma – Intentional Activity
Karma is the action or activity, deliberately done, with full knowledge
and intention of the doer, and also in expectation of certain results in
consequences thereof. This kind of Karma binds man to the causes and
effects of the `Law of Karma'.
Why is Karma Important?
Karma – Birth and Death
To Clear Past lives Balance
Liberation – Nil Karma balance
What Kind of Actions Bind
you to Karma?
Deliberate
With Full Knowledge and Intention
With/without Expecting some results
Only Actions are Karma?
Thought
Word
Action with Mind
Law of Karma
Law of Karma
• Every action has a reaction
• Person who performed the action should
receive the reaction
• The reaction is going to be exact same
When you sow a seed of Karma and whenever it yields the result and become the
fruit, whether it is sweet or bitter, rest assured that you and you alone will have to eat
it, whether you like it or not, and no one else will be able to eat it on your behalf,
even if somebody volunteers to do so
Law of Karma
God Made (Law of Karma)
Vs
Man Made Law
First Karma(Original action)
Start of Creation
• Original Action
• Divine Origin
• Karma theory started from God himself
Does God bound by Law of
Karma?
Does God bound by Law of
Karma?
Karma vs Kala(Time)
KARMA – cause for Pleasure/Pain and Birth/Death
CONSEQUENCE/REACTION
KALA – link between
KARMA/Consequence(Action/Reaction)
• Unknown (Impossible to predict)
• Dependent on nature of Karma
• It is in your hands?
Types of Karma
Immediate/Instant Karma
Delayed Karma
• Early Delayed Karma
• Late Delayed Karma
Mass Karma
Types of Karma Balances
Sanchita Karma
Prarabdha Karma
Agami Karma
Types of Karma Balances
Why do bad things happen to Good People?
Every human being thinks that he is undergoing suffering even though he has
not done anything bad. But the fact is that whatever pleasure or pain anyone
undergoes is due to Karma performed.
Can Good Actions remove Bad Karma?
Most of the people are under the mistaken impression that after doing
one bad Karma and at the same time by doing another good Karma,
they can mitigate the result of the bad Karma. If one does something
bad to someone, he is sure to get it back, in the same manner, today or
tomorrow, from that very person himself or by any other person. By the
same token, if one does good to somebody, he is also going to benefit in
a similar manner.
Karma is not a bank account. You deposit Rs.5000/- today, withdraw
Rs.3000/- and the balance is Rs.2000/-, so when you again deposit
Rs.1000/-, it becomes Rs.3000/-. Karma theory is not adding and
subtracting like a bank account. It is `tit for tat, blow for blow, help for
help'. It is same like Newton's 3rd law, `Action and reaction are always
equal and opposite'
Good Actions and Prayers – what use ?
One’s Transformation derives God’s Grace
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Not always visible
Mind may not perceive
Continue
Test for consistency
Why should one pray, meditate, contemplate on God or engage in good
actions when one is anyway bound to face the consequences of one’s
actions? You may not be able to see the transformation that comes
within you by your good actions and prayer. You many not even be able
to visualize it with your mind. Yet, this transformation in you is sure to
attract God’s grace. The benefits derived from prayer or good actions
may not be visible to naked eye. Yet the benefits do accrue in the form
of God’s grace.
Actions and Prayer can change our Backlog
How can we overcome Karma?
God’s Grace
How to earn Divine Grace?
Absolute Faith in God
Where there is faith, there is love.
Where there is love, there is peace.
Where there is peace, there is truth.
Where there is truth, there is God.
Where there is God, there is Bliss.
Devotion to Father and Mother
Install God in your Heart
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Make him basis of your actions
All your actions become sacred
Can God Change our Karma?
??? from Bougainvillea Creeper
Can God Change our Karma?
Plums from Bougainvillea Creeper
Offering the results to God
Perform only Karma
Do not covet for the results
• Kharma phala thyaga
You are not responsible of results
Don’t stop performing your karma
Dealing with
Sanchita and Agami Karma
Sanchita Karma
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Namasmarana
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Satsang/Study Circle
Agami Karma
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Think about the consequence
If Swamy is about the action
Make it a habit
Dealing with Prarbdha Karma
Bear it Stoically
Transmute your suffering
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Learn from your suffering
Share the experience with others
Make sure to alleviate their suffering
Transcend the suffering
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Stick to God
Go back to God
Transcends all body-mind conditions
Summary
Do only Good Actions
Offer the results to God
Be a servant to God
See God in every one
Naamasmarana and Study Circle