HOW TO BECOME FREE FROM KARMA

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                       THE PRACTICAL TECHNIQUE FOR 

                                      BECOMING FREE 

                                           FROM KARMA

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                        ACTIVITIES OF SENSE GRATIFICATION, MEANT ONLY TO PLEASE ONE'S MIND ANS SENSES, ARE THE CAUSE OF MATERIAL BONDAGE, AND AS LONG AS ONE ENGAGES IN SUCH FRUITIVE ACTIVITIES, THE SOUL IS SURE TO CONTINUALLY TRANSMIGRATE FROM SPECIES TO SPECIES.

                   LORD RSABHADEVA, AN INCARNATION OF KRSNA, WARNED, "PEOPLE ARE MAD AFTER SENSE GRATIFICATION, WHEN A PERSON CONSIDERS SENSE GRATIFICATION THE AIM OF LIFE, HE CERTAINLY BECOMES MAD AFTER MATERIALISTIC LIVING AND ENGAGES IN ALL KINDS OF SINFUL ACTIVITY. HE DOES NOT KNOW THAT DUE TO HIS PAST MISDEEDS HE HAS ALREADY RECEIVED A BODY, WHICH ALTHOUGH TEMPORARY, IS THE CAUSE OF HIS MISERY.  ACTUALLY, THE LIVING ENTITY SHOULD NOT HAVE TAKEN ON A MATERIAL BODY, BUT HE HAS BEEN AWARDED THE MATERIAL BODY FOR SENSE GRATIFICATION. THEREFORE, I THINK IT NOT BEFITTING AN INTELLIGENT MAN TO INVOLVE HIMSELF AGAIN IN THE ACTIVITIES OF SENSE GRATIFICATION, BY WHICH HE PERPETUALLY GETS MATERIAL BODIES ONE AFTER ANOTHER. AS LONG AS ONE DOES NOT INQUIRE ABOUT THE SPIRITUAL VALUES OF LIFE, ONE IS DEFEATED AND SUBJECTED TO MISERIES ARISING FROM IGNORANCE. BE IT SINFUL OR PIOUS, KARMA HAS ITS RESULTANT ACTIONS. 

                              IF A PERSON IS ENGAGED IN ANY KIND OF KARMA, HIS MIND IS CALLED KARMATMAKA,OR COLORED WITH FRUITIVE ACTIVITY". AS LONG AS THE MIND IS IMPURE, CONSCIOUSNESS IS UNCLEAR, AND AS LONG AS ONE IS ABSORBED IN FRUITIVE ACTIVITY, HE HAS TO ACCEPT A MATERIAL BODY. WHEN THE LIVING ENTITY IS COVERED BY THE MODE OF IGNORANCE, HE DOES NOT UNDERSTAND THE INDIVIDUAL LIVING BEING AND THE SUPREME LIVING BEING, AND HIS MIND IS SUBJUGATED TO FRUITIVE ACTIVITY. THEREFORE, UNTIL ONE HAS LOVE FOR GOD, HE IS CERTAINLY NOT DELIVERED FROM HAVING TO ACCEPT A MATERIAL BODY AGAIN AND AGAIN".

                     BUT BECOMING FREE FROM THE CYCLE OF BIRTH AND DEATH REQUIRES MORE THAN JUST THEORETICAL UNDERSTANDING. JNANA, OR KNOWLEDGE THAT ONE IS NOT THE MATERIAL BODY BUT A SPIRIT SOUL, IS NOT SUFFICIENT SOUL. THIS IS CALLED DEVOTIONAL SERVICE, WHICH INCLUDES MANY PRACTICAL TECHNIQUE FOR BECOMING FREE FROM KARMA AND REINCARNATION.

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                     👇       POINT NO.1👀

               THE FIRST PRINCIPLE OF DEVOTIONAL SERVICE IS THAT ONE SHOULD ALWAYS CHANT THE HARE KRISHNA MANTRA, HARE KRISHNA, HARE KRISHNA, HARE KRISHNA, HARE KRISHNA , HARE RAMA, RAMA, RAMA, HARE HARE.

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                      👇     POINT NO.2 👀

                     ONE SHOULD ALSO REGULARLY STUDY THE VEDIC LITERATURES, ESPECIALLY BHAGAVAD-GITA AND SRIMAD-BHAGAVATAM, IN ORDER TO DEVELOP A THOROUGH UNDERSTANDING OF THE NATURE OF THE SELF, THE LAWS OF KARMA, THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION, AND THE MEANS FOR BECOMING SELF-REALIZED.

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                           👇   POINT NO.3 👀

                     ONE SHOULD EAT ONLY SPIRITUALIZED VEGETARIAN FOODS. IN BHAGAVAD-GITA, LORD KRISHNA SAYS THAT ONE SHOULD EAT ONLY FOOD THAT IS OFFERED TO HIM IN SACRIFICE, OTHERWISE, ONE WILL BECOME IMPLICATED IN THE REACTIONS OF KARMA.

                     IF ONE OFFERS ME WITH LOVE AND DEVOTION A LEAF, A FLOWER, FRUIT, OR WATER, I WILL ACCEPT IT".  IT IS CLEAR FROM THIS VERSE THAT THE LORD IS NOT INTERESTED IN OFFERINGS OF LIQUOR, MEAT, FISH OR EGGS, BUT SIMPLE VEGETARIAN FOODS PREPARED WITH LOVE AND DEVOTION.

                      WE SHOULD REFLECT ON THE FACT THAT FOOD CANNOT BE PRODUCED BY MEN WORKING IN FACTORIES. MEN CANNOT EAT GASOLINE, PLASTIC, MICROCHIPS, OR STEEL. FOOD IS PRODUCED BY THE LORD'S OWN NATURAL ARRANGEMENTS, AND OFFERING FOOD TO KRISHNA IS A FORM OF RECOGNIZING OUR DEBT TO GOD. HOW DOES NOT OFFER FOOD TO KRISHNA? THE TECHNIQUE IS VERY SIMPLE AND EASY TO PERFORM. ANYONE MAY KEEP A SMALL ALTAR IN ONE'S HOME OR APARTMENT, WITH A PICTURE OF LORD KRISHNA AND THE SPIRITUAL MASTER ON IT. THE SIMPLEST FORM OF OFFERING IS TO PLACE THE FOOD BEFORE THE PICTURES AND SAY, "MY DEAR LORD KRISHNA, PLEASE ACCEPT THIS HUMBLE OFFERING", AND CHANT HARE KRISHNA. THE KEY TO THIS SIMPLE PROCESS IS DEVOTION. GOD IS NOT HUNGRY FOR FOOD, BUT FOR OUR LOVE, AND EATING THIS PURIFIED FOOD THAT HAS BEEN ACCEPTED BY KRISHNA FREES ONE FROM KARMA AND INOCULATES HIM AGAINST MATERIAL CONTAMINATION.

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                  👇    POINT NO.4 👀

                          THE POSITIVE PRINCIPLE OF OFFERING VEGETARIAN FOOD TO KRISHNA AUTOMATICALLY INCLUDES THE NEGATIVE PRINCIPLE OF AVOIDING MEAT, FISH, AND EGGS. EATING MEAT MEANS PARTICIPATING IN THE BUSINESS OF UNNECESSARILY KILLING OTHER LIVING BEINGS. THIS LEADS TO BAD KARMIC REACTIONS IN THIS LIFE OR THE NEXT. THE LAWS OF KARMA STATE THAT IF ONE KILLS AN ANIMAL TO EAT IT, THEN IN HIS NEXT LIFE THE KILLER WILL ALSO BE KILLED AND EATEN. THERE IS ALSO KARMA INVOLVED IN TAKING THE LIVES OF PLANTS, BUT THIS IS NEGATED BY THE PROCESS OF OFFERING THE FOOD TO KRISHNA, BECAUSE HE SAYS HE WILL ACCEPT SUCH VEGETARIAN OFFERINGS. ONE SHOULD ALSO GIVE UP INTOXICANTS, INCLUDING COFFEE, TEA, ALCOHOL, AND TOBACCO. INDULGING IN INTOXICATION MEANS ASSOCIATING WITH THE MODE OF IGNORANCE AND MAY RESULT IN ONE'S TAKING A LOWER BIRTH IN THE NEXT LIFE.

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                   👇  POINT NO.5 👀

                 OTHER TECHNIQUE FOR BECOMING FREE FROM THE CYCLE OF REINCARNATION INCLUDE OFFERING THE FRUIT OF ONE'S WORK TO GOD. EVERYONE MUST WORK FOR SIMPLE BODILY SUSTENANCE. BUT IF WORK IS PERFORMED ONLY FOR ONE'S OWN SATISFACTION, ONE MUST ACCEPT THE KARMIC RESULTS AND RECEIVE GOOD AND BAD REACTIONS IN FUTURE LIVES. THE BHAGAVAD-GITA WARNS THAT WORK MUST BE PERFORMED FOR THE SATISFACTION OF THE LORD. THIS WORK, KNOWN AS DEVOTIONAL SERVICE, IS KARMA FREE. WORKING IN KRISHNA CONSCIOUSNESS MEANS SACRIFICE. THE HUMAN BEING MUST SACRIFICE HIS TIME OR MONEY FOR THE SATISFACTION OF THE SUPREME. WORK DONE AS A SACRIFICE FOR VISHNU HAS TO BE PERFORMED. OTHERWISE WORK CAUSES BONDAGE IN THIS MATERIAL WORLD". WORK PERFORMED AS DEVOTIONAL SERVICE NOT ONLY SAVES ONE FROM KARMIC REACTION, BUT GRADUALLY ELEVATES ONE TO TRANSCENDENTAL LOVING SERVICE OF THE LORD- THE KEY TO ENTERING THE KINGDOM OF GOD.

                        IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO CHANGE ONE'S OCCUPATION. ONE MAY BE A WRITER AND WRITE FOR KRISHNA, AN ARTIST AND PAINT FOR KRISHNA, A COOK AND COOK FOR KRISHNA. OR, IF ONE IS NOT ABLE TO DIRECTLY ENGAGE ONE'S TALENTS AND ABILITIES IN SERVING KRISHNA, ONE MAY SACRIFICE THE FRUITS OF ONE'S WORK BY CONTRIBUTING A PORTION OF ONE'S EARNINGS TO HELP PROPAGATE KRISHNA CONSCIOUSNESS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. ONE SHOULD, HOWEVER, ALWAYS EARN ONE'S LIVING BY HONEST MEANS. FOR EXAMPLE, ONE SHOULD NOT WORK AS A BUTCHER OR GAMBLER.

THE KARMA

       

                                           KARMA

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                   KARMA IS THE AGGREGATE FRUITIVE ACTIVITIES CONDUCTED TO MAKE THIS BODY COMFORTABLE OR UNCOMFORTABLE. WE HAVE ACTUALLY SEEN THAT WHEN ONE MAN WAS ABOUT TO DIE HE REQUESTED HIS PHYSICIAN TO GIVE HIM A CHANCE TO LIVE FOUR MORE YEARS SO THAT HE COULD FINISH HIS PLANS. THIS MEANS THAT WHILE DYING HE WAS THINKING OF HIS PLANS. AFTER HIS BODY WAS DESTROYED, HE DOUBTLESSLY CARRIED HIS PLANS WITH HIM BY MEANS OF THE SUBTLE BODY, COMPOSED OF MIND, INTELLIGENCE, AND EGO. THUS HE WOULD GET ANOTHER CHANCE BY THE GRACE OF THE SUPREME LORD, THE SUPERSOUL, WHO IS ALWAYS WITHIN THE HEART. IN THE NEXT BIRTH, ONE ACQUIRES REMEMBRANCE FROM THE SUPERSOUL AND BEGINS TO EXECUTE PLANS BEGUN IN THE PREVIOUS LIFE. SITUATED ON THE VEHICLE GIVEN BY MATERIAL NATURE AND REMINDED BY THE SUPERSOUL WITHIN THE HEART, THE LIVING ENTITY STRUGGLES ALL OVER THE UNIVERSE TO FULLFILL HIS PLANS.

                       SEX CHANGE WITHOUT SURGERY

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                     A MAN GETS HIS NEXT LIFE'S BIRTH ACCORDING TO WHAT HE THINKS OF AT THE TIME OF DEATH. IF SOMEONE IS TOO ATTACHED TO HIS WIFE, NATURALLY HE THINKS OF HIS WIFE AT THE TIME OF DEATH, AND IN HIS NEXT LIFE HE TAKES THE BODY OF A WOMAN. SIMILARLY, IF A WOMAN THINKS OF HER HUSBAND AT THE TIME OF DEATH, NATURALLY SHE GETS THE BODY OF A MAN IN HER NEXT LIFE.

                   

                    WE SHOULD ALWAYS REMEMBER, AS IT IS STATED IN BHAGAVAD-GITA THAT BOTH THE GROSS AND SUBTLE MATERIAL BODIES ARE DRESSESS, THEY ARE THE SHIRT AND COAT OF THE LIVING ENTITY. TO BE EITHER A WOMAN OR A MAN INVOLVES ONLY ONE'S BODILY DRESS.

                         DREAMS AND PAST LIVES

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                 IN DREAMS WE SOMETIMES SEE THINGS THAT WE HAVE NEVER EXPERIENCED IN THE PRESENT BODY. SOMETIMES IN DREAMS WE THINK THAT ARE FLYING THE SKY, ALTHOUGH WE HAVE NO EXPERIENCE OF FLYING. THIS MEANS THAT ONCE IN A PREVIOUS LIFE, EITHER AS A DEMIGOD OR ASTRONAUT, WE FLEW IN THE SKY. THE IMPRESSION IS THERE IN THE STOCKPILE OF THE MIND, AND IT SUDDENLY EXPRESSESS ITSELF. IT IS LIKE FERMENTATION TAKING PLACE IN THE DEPTHS OF WATER,WHICH SOMETIMES MANIFESTS ITSELF IN BUBBLES ON THE WATER'S SURFACE. SOMETIMES WE DREAM OF COMING TO A PLACE WE HAVE NEVER KNOWN OR EXPERIENCED THIS. THE IMPRESSION IS KEPT WITHIN THE MIND AND SOMETIMES BECOMES MANIFEST EITHER IN DREAM OR IN THOUGHT. THE CONCLUSION IS THAT THE MIND IS THE STOREHOUSE OF VARIOUS THOUGHTS AND EXPERIENCES UNDERGOING DURING OUR PAST LIVES. THUS THERE IS A CHAIN OF CONTINUATION FROM ONE LIFE TO ANOTHER, FROM PREVIOUS LIVES TO THIS LIFE, AND FROM THIS LIFE TO FUTURE LIVES.

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                    A LIVING ENTITY TOO MUCH ABSORBED IN MATERIAL ACITIVITY BECOMES VERY MUCH ATTACHED TO THE MATERIAL BODY. EVEN AT THE POINT OF DEATH, HE THINKS OF HIS PRESENT BODY AND THE RELATIVES CONNECTED TO IT. THUS HE REMAINS FULLY ABSORBED IN THE BODILY CONCEPTION OF LIFE, SO MUCH SO THAT EVEN AT THE POINT OF DEATH HE ABHORS LEAVIN HIS PRESENT BODY. SOMETIMES IT IS FOUND THAT A PERSON ON THE VERGE OF DEATH REMAINS IN A COMA FOR MANY DAYS BEFORE GIVING UP THE BODY.

                      A PERSON MAY BE ENJOYING THE BODY OF A PRIME MINISTER OR A PRESIDENT,  BUT WHEN HE UNDERSTANDS THAT HE WILL BE FORCED TO ACCEPT THE BODY OF DOG OR HOG, HE CHOOSES NOT TO LEAVE THE PRESENT BODY. THEREFORE HE LIES IN A COMA MANY DAYS BEFORE DEATH.

       

                                 GHOSTS AND SUICIDE

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                       GHOSTS ARE BEREFIT OF A PHYSICAL BODY BECAUSE OF THEIR GRIEVOUSLY SINFUL ACTS, SUCH AS SUICIDE. THE LAST RESORT OF GHOSTLY CHARACTERS IN HUMAN SOCIETY IS TO TAKEN SHELTER OF SUICIDE, EITHER MATERIAL OR SPIRITUAL. MATERIAL SUICIDE CAUSES LOSS OF THE PHYSICAL BODY, AND SPIRITUAL SUICIDE CAUSES LOSS OF THE INDIVIDUAL IDENTITY.

WHAT IS KARMA ?

 

                                  

                                       KARMA YOGA

                  KARMA IS A SANSKRIT WORD MEANING ACTION OR TO WORK. EATING, SLEEPING, WALKING, THINKING AND READING ARE ACTIONS. BAL GANGADHAR TILAK IN GITA RAHASYA SAYS, "NO MAN IS FREE FROM ACTION AND THAT ACTION SHOULD NEVER BE GIVEN UP". EVERY ACTION IS SPIRITUAL, IF IT IS DONE WITHOUT ANY SELFISHNESS IN DOING A TASK THEN IT IS ONLY "ACTION" AND NOT "KARMA YOGA".

                  UNSELFISH ACTIONS CLEAN THE MIND. ACCORDING TO PARAMAHAMSA HARIHARANANDA, "KARMA YOGA MEANS THE PRACTICE OF DETACHMENT IN ALL ACTIONS. UNSELFISHNESS PRODUCES DETACHMENT AND INDIFFERENCE TO THE RESULT OF ACTIONS". WHEN ONE DOES ALL THE KARMAS ASSIGNED TO ONESELF WITHOUT ANYTHING IN RETURN LIKE NAME, FAME, SATISFACTION OR MONETARY GAINS THEN ONE BECOMES KARMA YOGI.  A KARMA YOGI DOES ONE'S DUTY PROPERLY, ACCEPTS DESTINY AND DOES SELFLESS SOCIAL SERVICE IGNORING PERSONAL DESIRES. DOING ONE'S ALL DUTIES WHILE REMAINING IN THIS MATERIALITIC WORLD AND WITHOUT ANY EXPECTATIONS, LEADS TO LIBERATION THROUGH KARMA YOGA. ONE CAN PRACTISE KARMA YOGA WITHOUT TAKING SANNYAS (LEAVING HOUSE TO LIVE A LIFE OF HERMIT).

                        KARMA YOGA CAN BE PRACTISED BY DETACHING ONESELF WITH THE FRUITS OF ACTIONS. IF THE RESULT IS NOT UPTO ONE'S EXPECTATION THEN ONE SHOULD NOT GET ANGRY, IRRITATED OR UNHAPPY. ONE SHOULD ACT ACCORDING TO ONE'S DUTY WITHOUT CONSIDERING ONE'S SELFISH DESIRES OR LIKE AND DISLIKES. WHATEVER MAY BE THE RESULT OF ONE'S ACTION IRRESPECTIVE OF THAT, ONE SHOULD KEEP DOING ONE'S SINCERELY.

                   KARMA IS OF THREE TYPES :

                 1. SANCHIT - THERE ARE THE ACCUMULATED KARMAS OF THE PAST ACTIONS.

                2.  PRARABDHA - THEY ARE THE PART OF SANCHIT KARMA. THESE ACTIONS WERE DONE IN THE PAST AND NOW THEY HAVE STARTED GIVING THEIR FRUITS. THESE ARE FRUCTIFYING KARMAS. THEY ARE EXHAUSTED  ONLY BY EXPERIENCING THEM.

                3. AGAMI/KRIYAMANA/ VARTAMANA - THESE ARE CURRENT ACTIONS WHICH WILL GIVE RESULTS IN FUTURE.

                     ONE'S SANCHIT AND PRARBDHA KARMA DECIDES WHAT ONE DESERVES AND ONE'S AGAMI KARMA DECIDE WHAT ONE WILL BE. WHATEVER ONE IS TODAY IS THE RESULT OF THE PAST KARMA. AND ONE'S FUTURE WILL DEPEND UPON KARMAS ONE DOES TODAY. ONE'S ACTIONS AND THOUGHTS DECIDE ONE'S DESTINY.

                        JNANA YOGA 

                     JNANA YOGA MEANS LIBERATION THROUGH KNOWLEDGE. JNANA IN SANSRIT MEANS KNOWLEDGE.  KNOWLEDGE IS TRUTH. AND TRUTH IS THAT GOD IS EVERYWHERE AND IN EVERYTHING . HE IS IN ALL BEINGS ARE IN HIM. THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SELF AND GOD.

                    ACCORDING TO SWAM SIVANANDA . "SELF-REALIZATION OR DIRECT INTUITIVE PERCEPTION OF THE SUPREME SELF IS NECESSARY FOR ATTAINING FREEDOM AND PERFECTION. THIS JNANA YOGA OR THE PATH OF WISDOM IS, HOWEVER, NOT MEAN FOR THE MASSESS WHOSE HEARTS ARE NOT PURE ENOUGH AND WHOSE INTELLECTS ARE NOT SHARP ENOUGH TO UNDERSTAND AND PRACTISE THIS RAZOR-EDGE PATH. HENCE, KARMA YOGA AND BHAKTI YOGA ARE TO BE PRACTISED FIRST, WHICH WILL RENDER THE HEART PURE AND MAKE IT FIT FOR THE RECEPTION OF KNOWLEDGE JNANA YOGI IS THE PATH OF SELF-ANALYSIS, REFLECTION AND ENQUIRY".

                         ADI SHANKRACHARYA AND RAMANUJA WERE JNANA YOGIS. SHANKRACHARYA I ATMABODHA SAID,

                      "SRAVANAADIBHI UDDEPTA

                       JNAANAAGNI PARITAPITAH

                       JEEVA SARVAMALAT MUKTAH

                      SWARNAVAT DYOTATE SWAYAM".

                       (THE INDIVIDUAL IS PURIFIED BY HEATING IN THE FIRE OF KNOWLEDGE KINDLED BY HEARING REASONING AND DEEP MEDITATION ON WHAT HAS BEEN HEARD AND REASONED OUT. THEN THE INDIVIDUAL SHINES OF ITSELF LIKE PURE GOLD WHICH IS OBTAINED AFTER PURIFYIN THE GOLD ORE BY MELTING. ONE HEATS GOLD ORE IN A CRUCIBLE TO PURIFY IT, SIMILARLY, ONE HAS TO USE THE FIRE OF KNOWLEDGE TO PURIFY THE MIND. KNOWLEDGE CAN BE ACHIEVED BY SRAVANA (HEARING) MANANA (REASONING OF TRUTH) AND NIDHI DHYASAMA (DEEP CONTEMPLATON) THE MIND WILL BE FREE FROM IMPURE THOUGHTS, AND THE FEELING OF INDIVIDUAL GETS AUTOMATICALLY DESTROYED. THEN ONLY THE SELF ILLUMINATING SOUL EXISTS).