THE KARMA YOGAM

 

                WHAT IS THE MEANING OF FREEDOM 

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                        IN ADDITION TO MEANING WORK, WE HAVE STATED THAT PSYCHOLOGICALLY THE WORD KARMA ALSO IMPLIES CAUSATION. ANY WORK, AN ACTION, ANY THOUGHT THAT PRODUCES AN EFFECT IS CALLED A KARMA. THUS THE LAW OF KARMA MEANS THE LAW OF CAUSATION, OF INEVITABLE CAUSE AND SEQUENCE. WHERESOEVER THERE IS A CAUSE, THERE AN EFFECT MUST BE PRODUCED, THIS NECESSITY CANNOT BE RESISTED, AND THIS LAW OF KARMA, ACCORDING TO OUR PHILOSOPHY, IS TRUE THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE UNIVERSE. WHATEVER WE SEE, OR FEEL, OR DO, WHATEVER ACTION THERE IS ANYWHERE IN THE UNIVERSE, WHILE BEING THE EFFECT OF PAST WORK ON THE ONE HAND, BECOMES, ON THE OTHER, A CAUSE IN ITS TURN, AD PRODUCES ITS OWN EFFECT. IT IS NECESSARY, TOGETHER WITH THIS, TO CONSIDER WHAT IS MEANT BY THE WORD "LAW". BY LAW IS MEANT THE TENDENCY OF SERIES TO REPEAT ITSELF.

                         WHEN WE SEE ONE EVEN FOLLOWED BY ANOTHER, OR SOMETIMES HAPPENING SIMULTANEAOUSLY TO RECUR. OUR OLD LOGICIANS AND PHILOSOPHERS OF THE NYAYA SCHOOL CALL THIS LAW BY THE NAME OF VYAPATI. ACCORDING TO THEM, ALL OUR IDEAS OF LAW ARE DUE TO ASSOCIATION. A SERIES OF PHENOMENA BECOMES ASSOCIATED WITH THINGS IN OUR MIND IN A SORT OF INVARIABLE ORDER, SO THAT WHATEVER WE PERCEIVE AT ANY TIME IS IMMEDIATELY REFERRED TO OTHER FACTS IN THE MIND. ANY ONE IDEA, OR ACCORDING TO OUR PSYCHOLOGY, ANY ONE WAVE THAT IS PRODUCED IN THE MIND-STUFF, CHITTA, MUST ALWAYS GIVE RISE TO MANY SIMILAR WAVES. THIS IS THE PSYCHOLOGICAL IDEA OF ASSOCIATION, AND CAUSATION IS ONLY AN ASPECT OF THIS GRAND PERVASIVE PRINCIPLE OF ASSOCIATION.

                         THIS PERVASIVENESS OF ASSOCIATION IS WHAT IS, IN SANSKRIT, CALLED VYAPATI. IN THE EXTERNAL WORLD THE IDEA OF LAW IS THE SAME AS IN THE INTERNAL - THE EXPECTATION THAT A PARTICULAR PHENOMENON WILL BE FOLLOWED BY ANOTHER, AND THAT THE SERIES WILL REPEAT ITSELF. REALLY SPEAKING, THEREFORE, LAW DOES NOT EXIST IN NATURE. PRACTICALLY IT IS AN ERROR TO SAY THAT GRAVITATION EXISTS IN THE EARTH, OR THAT THERE IS ANY LAW EXISTING OBJECTIVELY ANYWHERE IN NATURE. LAW IS THE METHOD, THE MANNER IN WHICH OUR MIND GRAPS A SERIES OF PHENOMENA, IT IS IN THE MIND. CERTAIN PHENOMENA, HAPPENING ONE AFTER ANOTHER OR TOGETHER, AND FOLLOWED BY THE CONVICTION OF THE REGULARITY OF THEIR RECURRENCE -THUS ENABLING OUR MINDS TO GRASP THE METHOD OF THE WHOLE SERIES - CONSTITUTE WHAT WE CALL LAW.

                            WHAT IS KARMA-YOGA? THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE SECRET OF WORK. WE SEE THAT THE WHOLE UNIVERSE IS WORKING. FOR WHAT? FOR SALVATION, FOR LIBERTY, FROM THE ATOM TO THE HIGHEST BEING, WORKING FOR THE ONE END, LIBERTY FOR THE MIND, FOR THE BODY, FOR THE SPIRIT. ALL THINGS ARE ALWAYS TRYING TO GET FREEDOM, FLYING AWAY FROM BONDAGE. THE SUN, THE MOON, THE EARTH, THE PLANETS, ALL ARE TRYING TO FLY AWAY FROM BONDAGE. THE CENTRIFUGAL AND THE CENTRIPETAL FORCES OF NATURE ARE INDEED TYPICAL OF OUR UNIVERSE. INSTEAD OF BEING KNOCKED ABOUT IN THIS UNIVERSE, AND AFTER LONG DELAY AND THRASHING, GETTING TO KNOW THINGS AS THEY ARE, WE LEARN FROM KARMA-YOGA THE SECRET OF WORK, THE METHOD OF WORK, THE ORGANISING POWER OF WORK. A VAST MASS OF ENERGY MAY BE SPENT IN VAIN IF WE DO NOT KNOW HOE TO UTILISE IT.

                          KARMA-YOGA MAKES A SCIENCE OF WORK, YOU LEARN BY IT HOW BEST TO UTILISE ALL THE WORKINGS OF THIS WORLD. WORK IS INEVITABLE, IT MUST BE SO, BUT WE SHOULD WORK TO THE HIGHEST PURPOSE.  KARMA-YOGA MAKES US ADMIT THAT THIS WORLD IS A WORLD OF FIVE MINUTES,THAT IT IS A SOMETHING WE HAVE TO PASS THROUGH, AND THAT FREEDOM IS NOT HERE, BUT IS ONLY TO BE FOUND BEYOND. TO FIND THE WAY OUT OF THE BONDAGES OF THE WORLD WE HAVE TO GO THROUGH IT SLOWLY AN SURELY. THERE MAY BE THOSE EXCEPTIONAL PERSONS ABOUT WHOM I JUST SPOKE, THOSE WHO CAN STAND ASIDE AND GIVE UP THE WORLD, AS A SNAKE CASTS OFF ITS SKIN AND STANDS ASIDE AND LOOKS AT IT. THERE ARE NO DOUBT THESE EXCEPTIONAL BEINGS, BU THE REST OF MANKIND HAVE TO GO SLOWLY THROUGH THE WORLD OF WORK. KARMA-YOGA SHOWS THE PROCESS, THE SECRET, AND THE METHOD OF DOING IT TO THE BEST ADVANTAGE.

                          SO KARMA-YOGA SAYS, FIRST DESTROY THE TENDENCY TO PROJECT THIS TENTACLE OF SELFISHNESS, AND WHEN YOU HAVE THE POWER OF CHECKING IT, HOLD IT IN AND DO NOT ALLOW THE MIND TO GET INTO THE WAYS OF SELFISHNESS. THEN Y UMAY GO OUT INTO THE WORLD AND WORK AS MUCH AS YOU CAN. MIX EVERYWHERE, GO WHERE YOU PLEASE, YOU WILL NEVER BE CONTAMINATED WITH EVIL. THERE IS THE LOTUS LEAF IN THE WATER, THE WATER CANNOT TOUCH AND ADHERE TO IT, SO WILL YOU BE IN THE WORLD. THIS IS CALLED "VAIRAGYA" DISPASSION OR NON-ATTACHMENT. I BELIEVE I HAVE TOLD YOU THAT WITHOUT NON-ATTACHMENT THERE CANNOT BY ANY KIND OF YOGA. NON-ATTACHMENT IS THE BASIS OF ALL THE YOGAS. TE MAN WHO GIVES UP LIVING IN HOUSES, WEARING FINE CLOTHES, AND EATING GOOD FOOD, AND GOES INTO THE DESERT, MAY BE A MOST ATTACHED PERSON. HIS ONLY POSSESSION, HIS OWN BODY, MAY BECOME EVERYTHING TO HIM, AND AS HE LIVES HE WILL BE SIMPLY STRUGGLING FOR THE SAKE OF HIS BODY. NON-ATTACHMENT DOES NOT MEAN ANYTHING THAT WE MAY DO IN RELATION TO OUR EXTERNAL BODY, IT IS ALL IN THE MIND. THE BINDING LINK OF "I" AND "MINE". IF WE HAVE NOT THIS LINK WITH THE BODY AND WITH THE THINGS OF THE SENSES, WE ARE NON-ATTACHED, WHEREVER AND WHATEVER WE MAY BE. A MAN MAY BE ON A THRONE AND PERFECTLY NON-ATTACHED, ANOTHER MAN MAY BE IN RAGS AND STILL VERY MUCH ATTACHED. 

                 FIRST, WE HAVE TO ATTAIN THIS STATE OF NON-ATTACHMENT AND THEN TO WORK INCESSANTLY. KARMA-YOGA GIVES US THE METHOD THAT WILL HELP US IN GIVING UP ALL ATTACHMENT, THOUGH IT IS INDEED VERY HARD.

PHILOSOPHY, MYTHOLOGY AND RITUAL

 

                       

                     THE THREE PARTS OF RELIGION

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           PHILOSOPHY, MYTHOLOGY AND RITUAL

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                     BEFORE CONSIDERING FURTHER DEVOTION TO DUTY HELPS US IN OUR SPIRITUAL PROGRESS, LET ME PLACE BEFORE YOU IN A BRIEF COMPASS ANOTHER ASPECT OF WHAT WE IN INDIA MEAN BY KARMA. IN EVERY RELIGION THERE ARE THREE PARTS. PHILOSOPHY, MYTHOLOGY, AND RITUAL. PHILOSOPHY OF COURSE IS THE ESSENCE OF EVERY RELIGION, MYTHOLOGY EXPLAINS AND ILLUSTRATES IT BY MEANS OF THE MORE OR LESS LEGENDARY LIVES OF GREAT MEN, STORIES AND FABLES OF WONDERFUL THINGS, AND SO ON, RITUAL GIVES TO THAT PHILOSOPHY A STILL MORE CONCRETE FORM, SO THAT EVERY ONE MAY GRASP IT - RITUAL IS IN FACT CONCRETISED PHILOSOPHY . THIS RITUAL IS KARMA.

                        THERE ARE MANY  OTHER ASPECTS OF THIS SCIENCE OF WORK. ONE AMONG THEM IS TO KNOW THE RELATION BETWEEN THOUGHT AND WORD AND WHAT CAN BE ACHIEVED BY THE POWER OF THE WORD. IN EVERY RELIGION THE POWER OF THE WORD IS RECOGNISED, SO MUCH SO THAT IN SOME OFTHEM CREATION ITSELF IS SAID TO HAVE COME OUT OF THE WORD. THE EXTERNAL ASPECT OF THE THOUGHT OF GOD IS THE WORD, AND AS GOD THOUGHT AND WILLED BEFORE HE CREATED, CREATION CAME OUT OF THE WORD. IN THIS STRESS AND HURRY O OUR MATERIALISTIC LIFE, OUR NERVES LOSE SENSIBILITY AND BECOME HARDENED. THE OLDER WE GROW, THE LONGER WE ARE KNOCKED ABOUT IN THE WORLD, THE MORE CALLOUS WE BECOME, AND WE ARE APT TO NEGLECT THINGS THAT EVEN HAPPEN PERSISTENTLY AND PROMINENTLY AROUND US.

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                        HUMAN NATURE, HOWEVER, ASSERTS ITSELF SOMETIMES, AND WE ARE LED TO INQUIRE INTO AND WONDER AT SOME OF THESE COMMON OCCURENCES, WONDERINGS THUS IS THE FIRST STEP IN THE ACQUISITION OF LIGHT. APART FROM THE HIGHER PHILOSOPHIC AND RELIGIOUS VALUE OF THE WORD, WE MAY SEE THAT SOUND SYMBOLS PLAY A PROMINENT PART IN THE DRAMA OF HUMAN LIFE. I AM TALKING TO YOU. IAM NOT TOUCHING YOU, THE PULSATIONS OF THE AIR CAUSED BY MY SPEAKING GO INTO YOUR EAR, THEY TOUCH YOUR NERVES AND PRODUCE EFFECTS IN YOUR MINDS. YOU CANNOT RESIST THIS. WHAT CAN BE MORE WONDERFUL THAN THIS? ONE MAN CALLS ANOTHER A FOOL, AND AT THIS THE OTHER STANDS UP AND CLENCHES HIS FIST AND LANDS A BLOW ON HIS NOSE. LOOK AT THE POWER OF THE WORLD! THERE IS A WOMAN WEEPING AND MISERABLE, ANOTHER WOMAN COMES ALONG AND SPEAKS TO HER A FEW GENTLE WORDS, THE DOUBLED UP FRAME OF THE WEEPING WOMAN BECOMES STRAIGHTENED AT ONCE, H SORROW IS GONE AND SHE ALREADY BEGINS TO SMILE.  THINK OF THE POWER OF WORDS! THEY ARE A GREAT FORCE IN HIGHER PHILOSOPHY AS WELL AS IN COMMON LIFE. DAY AND NIGHT WE MANIPULATE THIS FORCES WITHOUT THOUGHT AND WITHOUT INQUIRY. TO KNOW THE NATURE OF THIS FORCE AND TO USE IT WELL IS ALSO A PART OF KARMA-YOGA.

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                       JUST AS EVERY ACTION THAT EMANATES FROM US COMES BACK TO US AS REACTION, EVEN SO OUR ACTIONS MAY ACT ON OTHER PEOPLE AND THEIR ON US. PERHAPS ALL OF YOU HAVE OBSERVED IT AS A FACT THAT WHEN PERSONS DO EVIL ACTIONS , THEY BECOME MORE AND MORE EVIL. AND WHEN THEY BEGIN TO DO GOOD, THEY BECOME STRONGER AND STRONGER AND LEARN TO DO GOOD AT ALL TIMES. THIS INTENSIFICATION OF THE INFLUENCE OF ACTION CANNOT BE EXPLAINED ON ANY OTHER GROUND THAN THAT WE CAN ACT AND REACT UPON EACH OTHER. TO TAKE AN ILLUSTRATION FROM PHYSICAL SCIENCE, WHEN I AM DOING A CERTAIN ACTION, MY MIND MAY BE SAID TO BE IN A CERTAIN STATE OF VIBRATION, ALL MINDS WHICH ARE IN SIMILAR CIRCUMSTANCES WILL HAVE THE TENDENCY TO BE AFFECTED BY MY MIND. IF THERE ARE DIFFERENT MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS TUNED ALIKE IN ONE ROOM, ALL OF YOU MAY HAVE NOTICED THAT WHEN ON IS STRUCK, THE OTHERS HAVE THE TENDENCY TO VIBRATE SO AS TO GIVE THE SAME NOTE. SO ALL MINDS THAT HAVE THE SAME TENSION, SO TO SAY, WIL BE EQUALLY AFFECTED BY THE SAME THOUGHT. OF COURSE, THIS INFLUENCE OF THOUGHT ON MIND WILL VARY ACCORDING TO DISTANCE AND OTHER CAUSES, BUT THE MIND IS ALWAYS OPEN TO AFFECTION.

                            SUPPOSE I AM DOING AN EVIL ACT, MY MIND IS IN A CERTAIN STATE OF VIBRATION, AND ALL MINDS IN THE UNIVERSE, WHICH ARE IN A SIMILAR STATE, HAVE THE POSSIBILITY OF BEING AFFECTED BY MY MIND, AND THIS POWER OF MIND UPON MIND IS MORE OR LESS ACCORDING AS THE FORCE OF THE TENSION IS GREATER OR LESS.

THE SECRET OF SUCCESS IN YOUR WORK!

 

                                    HOW TO BECOME

                       SUCCESSFUL IN YOUR WORK?

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                                       WHAT IS DUTY?

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                              IT IS NECESSARY IN THE STUDY OF KARMA-YOGA TO KNOW WHAT DUTY IS. IF I HAVE TO DO SOMETHING I MUST FIRST KNOW THAT IT IS MY DUTY, AND THEN I CAN DO IT. THE IDEA OF  DUTY AGAIN IS DIFFERENT IN DIFFERENT NATIONS. THE MOHAMMEDAN SAYS WHAT IS WRITTEN IN HIS BOOK, THE KORAN, IS HIS DUTY, THE HINDU SAYS WHAT IS IN THE VEDAS IS HIS DUTY, AND THE CHRISTIAN SAYS WHAT IS IN THE BIBLE IS HIS DUTY. WE FIN THAT THERE ARE VARIED IDEAS OF DUTY, DIFFERING ACCORDING TO DIFFERENT STATES IN LIFE , DIFFERENT HISTORICAL PERIODS AND DIFFERENT NATIONS. THE TERM "DUTY" , LIKE EVERY OTHER UNIVERSAL ABSTRACT TERM, IS IMPOSSIBLE CLEARLY TO DEFINE, WE CAN ONLY GET AN IDEA OF IT BY KNOWING ITS PRACTICAL OPERATIONS AND RESUTLS. WHEN CERTAIN THINGS OCCUR BEFORE US, WE HAVE ALL A NATURAL OR TRAINED TO ACT IN A CERTAIN MANNER TOWARDS THEM, WHEN THIS IMPULSE COMES, THE MIND BEGINS TO THINK ABOUT THE SITUATION.

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                        SOMETIMES IT THINKS THAT IT IS GOOD TO ACT IN A PARTICULAR MANNER UNDER THE GIVEN CONDITIONS, AT OTHER TIMES IT THINKS THAT IT IS WRONG TO ACT IN THE SAME MANNER EVEN IN THE VERY SAME CIRCUMSTANCES. THE ORDINARY IDEA OF DUTY EVERYWHERE IS THAT EVERY GOOD MAN FOLLOWS THE DICTATES OF HIS CONSCIENCE. BUT WHAT IS IT THAT MAKES AN ACT A DUTY? IF A CHRISTIAN FINDS A PIECE OF BEEF BEFORE HIM AND DOES NOT EAT IT TO SAVE HIS OWN LIFE, OR WILL NOT GIVE IT TO SAVE THE LIFE OF ANOTHER MAN, HE IS SURE TO FEEL THAT HE HAS NOT DONE HIS DUTY. BUT IF A HINDU DARES TO EAT THAT PIECES OF BEEF OR TO GIVE IT TO ANOTHER HINDU, HE IS EQUALLY SURE TO FEEL THAT HE TOO HAS NOT DONE HIS DUTY, THE HINDU'S TRAINING AND EDUCATION MAKE HIM FEEL THAT WAY. 

                    IN THE LAST CENTURY THERE WERE NOTORIOUS BANDS OF ROBBERS IN INDIA CALLED THUGS, THEY THOUGHT IT THEIR DUTY TO KILL ANY MAN THEY COULD AND TAKE AWAY HIS MONEY, THE LARGER THE NUMBER OF MEN THEY KILLED, THE BETTER THEY THOUGHT THERE WERE. ORDINARILY IF A MAN GOES OUT INTO THE STREET AND SHOOTS DOWN ANOTHER MAN, HE IS APT TO FEEL SORRY FOR IT, THINKING THAT HE HAS DONE WRONG. 

                          BUT IF THE VERY SAME MAN, AS A SOLDIER IN HIS REGIMENT, KILLS NOT ONE BUT TWENTY, HE IS CERTAIN TO FEEL GLAD AND THINK THAT HE HAS HIS DUTY REMARKABLY WELL. THEREFORE WE SEE THAT IT IS NOT THE THING DONE THAT DEFINES A DUTY. TO GIVE AN ONJECTIVE DEFINITION OF DUTY IS THUS ENTIRELY IMPOSSIBLE. YET THERE IS DUTY FROM THE SUBJECTIVE SIDE. 

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                   ANY ACTION THAT MAKES US TO GODWARD IS A GOOD ACTION, AND IS OUR DUTY, ANY ACTION THAT MAKES US GO DOWNWARD IS EVIL, AND ACTION THAT MAKES US GO DOWNWARD IS EVIL, AND IS NOT OUR DUTY. FROM THE SUBJECTIVE STANDPOINT WE MAY SEE THAT CERTAIN OTHER ACTS HAVE A TENDENCY TO DEGRADE AND TO BRUTALISE US.  BUT IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO MAKE OUT WITH CERTAINLY WHICH ACTS HAVE WHICH KIND OF TENDENCY IN RELATION TO ALL PERSONS, OF ALL SORTS AND CONDITIONS. THERE IS, HOWEVER, ONLY ONE IDEA OF DUTY WHICH HAS BEEN UNIVERSALLY ACCEPTED BY ALL MANKIND, OF ALL AGES AND SECTS AND COUNTRIES, AND THAT HAS BEEN SUMMED UP IN A SANSKRIT APHORISM THUS. "DO NOT INJUIRE ANY BEING, NOT INJURING ANY BEING IS VIRTUE, INJURING ANY BEING IS SIN".

                      THERE ISA SAGE IN INDIA, A GREAT YOGI, ONE OF THE MOST WONDERFUL MEN I HAVE EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE. HE IS A PECULIAR MAN, HE WILL NOT TEACH ANY ONE, IF YOU ASK HIM A QUESTION HE WILL NOT ANSWER. IT IS TOO MUCH FOR HIM TO TAKE UP THE POSITION OF A TEACHER, HE WILL NOT DO IT. IF YOU ASK A QUESTION, AND WAIT FOR SOME DAYS, IN THE COURSE OF CONVERSATION HE WILL BRING UP THE SUBJECT, AND WONDERFUL LIGHT WILL HE THROW ON IT. HE TOLD ME ONCE THE SECRET OF WORK", LET THE END AND THE MEANS BE JOINED INTO ONE".

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                        WHEN YOU ARE DOING ANY WORK, DO NOT THINK OF ANYTHING BEYOND. DO IT AS WORSHIP, AS THE HIGHEST WORSHIP, AND DEVOTE YOUR WHOLE LIFE TO IT FOR THE TIME BEING. THUS, IN THE STORY, THE VYADHA LIFE TO IT FOR THE TIME BEING. THUS, IN THE STORY, THE VYADHA AND THE WOMAN DID THEIR DUTY WITH CHEERFULNESS AND WHOLE-HEARTNESS, AND THE RESULT WAS THAT THEY BECAME ULLUMINATED, CLEARLY SHOWING THAT THE RIGHT PERFORMANCE OF THE DUTIES OF ANY STATION IN LIFE, WITHOUT ATTACHMENT TO RESULTS, LEADS US TO THE HIGHEST REALISATION OF THE PERFECTION OF THE SOUL.

                     IT IS THE WORKER WHO IS ATTACHED TO RESULTS THAT GRUMBLES ABOUT THE NATURE OF THE DUTY WHICH HAS FALLEN TO HIS LOT, TO THE UNATTACHED WORKER ALL DUTIES ARE EQUALLY GOOD, AND FORM EFFICIENT INSTRUMENTS WITH WHICH SELFISHNESS AND SENSUALITY MAY BE KILLED, AND THE FREEDOM OF THE SOUL SECURED. WE ARE ALL APT TO THINK TOO HIGHLY OR OURSELVES. OUR DUTIES ARE DETERMINED BY OUR DESERTS TO A MUCH LARGER EXTENT THAN WE ARE WILLING TO GRANT. 

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                      COMPETITION ROUSES ENVY, AND IT KILLS AND KINDLINESS OF TEH HEART. TO THE GRUMBLER ALL DUTIES ARE DISTASTEFUL, NOTHING WILL EVER SATISFY HIM, AND HIS WHOLE LIFE IS DOOMED TO PROVE A FAILURE. LET US WORK ON, DOING AS WE GO WHATEVER HAPPENS TO BE OUR DUTY, AND BEING EVER READY TO PUT OUR SHOULDERS TO THE WHEEL. THEN SURELY SHALL WE SEE THE LIGHT!

HOW TO LOVE YOUR WORK !

 

                                         

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                     "   DONT DO WORK LIKE SLAVE  "

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                         HELPING OTHERS PHYSICALLY, BY REMOVING THEIR PHYSICAL NEEDS, IS INDEED GREAT, BUT THE HELP IS GREAT ACCORDING AS THE NEED IS GREATER AND ACCORDING AS THE HELP IS FAR REACHING . IF A MAN'S WANTS CAN BE REMOVED FOR AN HOUR, IT IS HELPING HIM INDEED, IF HIS WANTS CAN BE REMOVED FOR A YEAR, IT WILL BE MORE HELP TO HIM, BUT IF HIS WANTS CAN BE REMOVED FOR EVER, IT IS SURELY THE GREATEST HELP THAT CAN BE GIVEN HIM. SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE IS THE ONLY THING THAT CAN DESTROY OUR MISERIES FOR EVER, ANY OTHER THING THAT CAN DESTROY OUR MISERIES FOR EVER, ANY OTHER KNOWLEDGE SATISFIES WANTS ONLY FOR A TIME. IT IS ONLY WITH THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE SPIRIT THAT THE FACULTY OF WANT IS ANNIHILATED FOR EVER, SO HELPING MAN SPIRITUALLY IS THE HIGHEST HELP THAT CAN BE GIVEN TO HIM.

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                        HE WHO GIVES MAN SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE IS THE GREATEST BENEFACTOR OF MANKIND AND AS SUCH WE ALWAYS FIND THAT THOSE WERE THE MOST POWERFUL OF MEN WHO HELPED MAN IN HIS SPIRITUAL NEEDS, BECAUSE SPIRITUALLITY IS THE TRUE BASIS OF ALL OUR ACTIVITIES IN LIFE. A SPIRITUALLY STRONG AND SOUND MAN WILL BE STRONG IN EVERY OTHER RESPECT, IF HE SO WISHES. UNTIL THERE IS SPIRITUAL STRENGTH IN MAN EVEN PHYSICAL NEEDS CANNOT BE WELL SATISFIED. NEXT TO SPIRITUAL COMES INTELLECTUAL HELP. THE GIFT OF KNOWLEDGE IS A FAR HIGHER GIFT THAN THAT OF FOOD AND CLOTHES, IT IS EVEN HIGHER THAN GIVING LIFE TO A MAN, BECAUSE THE REAL LIFE OF MAN CONSISTS OF KNOWLEDGE. IGNORANCE IS DEATH, KNOWLEDGE IS LIFE. LIFE IS OF VERY LITTLE VALUE, IF IT IS A LIFE IN THE DARK, GROPING THROUGH IGNORANCE AND MISERY. NEXT IN ORDER COMES, OF COURSE, HELPING A MAN PHYSICALLY. THEREFORE, IN CONSIDERING THE QUESTION OF HELPING OTHERS, WE MUST ALWAYS STRIVE NOT TO COMMIT THE MISTAKE OF THINKING THAT PHYSICAL HELP IS THE ONLY HELP THAT CAN BE GIVEN. 

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                      IT IS NOT ONLY THE LAST BUT THE LEAST, BECAUSE IT CANNOT BRING ABOUT PERMANENT SATISFACTION. THE MISERY THAT I FEEL WHEN I AM HUNGRY IS SATISFIED BY EATING, BUT HUNGER RETUNRS, MY MISERY CAN CEASE ONLY WHEN I AM SATISFIED BEYOND ALL WANT. THEN HUNGER WILL NOT MAKE ME MISERABLE, NO DISTRESS, NO SORROW WILL BE ABLE TO MOVE ME. SO, THAT HELP WHICH TENDS OF MAKE US STRONG SPIRITUALLY IS THE HIGHEST, NEXT TO IT COMES INTELLECTUAL HELP, AND AFTER THAT PHYSICAL HELP.

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                              THE WHOLE GIST OF THIS TEACHING IS THAT YOU SHOULD WORK LIKE A MASTER AND NOT AS A SLAVE, WORK INCESSANTLY, BUT DO NOT DO SLAVE'S WORK. DO YOU NOT SEE HOW EVERYBODY WORKS? NOBODY CAN BE ALTOGETHER AT REST, NINETY-NINE PER CENT OF MANKIND WORK LIKE SLAVES, AND THE RESULT IS MISERY, IT IS ALL SELFISH WORK. WORK THROUGH FREEDOM! WORK THROUGH LOVE! THE WORLD "LOVE" IS VERY DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND, LOVE NEVER COMES UNTIL THERE IS FREEDOM. THERE IS NO TRUE LOVE POSSIBLE IN THE SLAVE. IF YOU BUY A SLAVE AND TIE HIM DOWN IN CHAINS AND MAKE HIM WORK FOR YOU, HE WILL WORK LIKE A DRUDGE, BUT THERE WILL BE NO LOVE IN HIM. SO WHEN WE OURSELVES WORK FOR THE THINGS OF THE WORLD AS SLAVES, THERE CAN BE NO LOVE IN US, AND OUR WORK IS NOT TRUE WORK. THIS IS TRUE OF WORK DONE FOR RELATIVES AND FRIENDS, AND IS TRUE OF WORK DONE FOR OUR OWN SELVES. SELFISH WORK IS SLAVE'S WORK, AND HERE IS A TEST. EVERY ACT OF LOVE BRINGS HAPPINESS, THERE IS NO ACT OF LOVE WHICH DOES NOT BRING PEACE AND BLESSESNESS AS ITS REACTION .

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                      REAL EXISTENCE, REAL KNOWLEDGE, AND REAL LOVE ARE ETERNALLY CONNECTED WITH ONE ANOTHER, THE THREE IN ONE, WHERE ONE OF THEM IS, THE OTHERS ALSO MUST BE, THEY ARE THE THREE ASPECTS OF THE ONE WITHOUT A SECOND - THE EXISTENCE - KNOWLEDGE- BLISS. WHEN THAT EXISTENCE BECOMES RELATIVE WE SEE IT AS THE WORLD, THAT KNOWLEDGE OF THE THINGS OF THE WORLD, AND THAT BLISS FORMS THE FOUNDATION OF ALL TRUE LOVE KNOWN TO THE HEART OF MAN. THEREFORE TRUE LOVE CAN NEVER REACT SO AS TO CAUSE PAIN EITHER TO THE LOVER OR TO THE BELOVED. 

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                        SUPPOSE A MAN LOVES A WOMAN, HE WISHES TO HAVE HER ALL TO HIMSELF, HED WANTS HER TO SIT NEAR HIM, TO STAND NEAR HIM, AND TO EAT AND  MOVE AT HIS SLAVE. THAT IS NOT LOVE, IT IS A KIND OF MORBID AFFECTION OF THE SLAVE, INSINUATING ITSELF AS LOVE. IT CANNOT BE LOVE, BECAUSE IT IS PAINFUL, IF SHE DOES NOT DO WHAT HE WANTS, IT BRINGS HIM PAIN. WITH LOVE THERE IS NO PAINFUL REACTION, LOVE ONLY BRINGS A REACTION OF BLISS, IF IT DOES NOT, IT IS NOT LOVE, IT IS MISTAKING SOMETHING ELSE FOR LOVE. WHEN YOU HAVE SUCCEEDED IN LOVING YOUR HUSBAND, YOUR WIFE, YOUR CHILDREN, THE WHOLE WORLD, THE UNIVERSE, IN SUCH A MANNER THAT THERE IS NO REACTION OF PAIN OR JEALOUSY, NO SELFISH FEELING, THEN YOU ARE IN A FIT STATE TO BE UNATTACHED.

THE FORCES OF NATURE!

 

                           THE NATURE FORCES - SATTVA,

                                      RAJAS, AND TAMAS

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                         EACH IS GREAT IN HIS OWN PLACE'

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                       ACCORDING TO THE SANKHYA PHILOSOPHY, NATURE IS COMPOSED OF THREE FORCES CALLED IN SANSKRIT, SATTVA, RAJAS, AND TAMAS. THESE ARE MANIFESTED IN THE PHYSICAL WORLD ARE WHAT WE MAY CALL EQUILIBRIUM, ACTIVITY, AND INERTNESS. TAMAS IS TYPIFIED AS DARKNESS OR INACTIVITY, RAJAS IS ACTIVITY, EXPRESSED AS ATTRACTION OR REPULSION, AD SATTVA IS THE EQUILIBRIUM OF THE TWO THINGS.

                           IN EVERY MAN THERE ARE THESE THREE FORCES, SOMETIMES TAMAS PREVAILS, WE BECOME LAZY, WE CANNOT MOVE, WE ARE INACTIVE, BOUND DOWN BY CERTAIN IDEAS OR BY MERE DULLNESS. AT OTHER TIME ACTIVITY PREVAILS, AND AT STILL OTHER TIMES THAT CALM BALANCING OF BOTH . AGAIN, IN DIFFERENT MEN, ONE OF THESE FORCES IS GENERALLY PREDOMINANT. THE CHARACTERISTIC OF ONE MAN IS INACTIVITY, DULLNESS AND LAZINESS, THAT OF ANOTHER, ACTIVITY, POWER, MANIFESTATION OF ENERGY, AND IN STILL ANOTHER WE FIND THE SWEETNESS, CALMNESS, AND GENTLENESS WHICH ARE DUE TO THE BALANCING OF BOTH ACTION AND INACTION. SO IN ALL CREATION - IN ANIMALS, PLANTS, AND MEN- WE FIND THE MORE OR LESS TYPICAL MANIFESTATION OF ALL THESE DIFFERENT FORCES.

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                     KARMA-YOGA HAS SPECIALLY TO DEAL WITH THESE THREE FACTORS. BY TEACHING WHAT THEY ARE AND HOW TO EMPLOY THEM, IT HELPS US TO DO OUR WORK BETTER. HUMAN SOCIETY IS A GRADED ORGANIZATION.  WE ALL KNOW ABOUT MORALITY, AND WE ALL KNOW ABOUT DUTY, BUT AT THE SAME TIME WE FIND THAT IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES THE SIGNIFICANCE OF MORALITY VARIES GREATLY. WHAT IS REGARDED AS MORAL IN ONE COUNTRY MAY IN ANOTHER BE CONSIDERED PERFECTLY IMMORAL. FOR INSTANCE, IN ONE COUNTRY COUSINS MAY MARRY, IN ANOTHER, IT IS THOUGHT TO BE VERY IMMORAL, IN ONE, MEN MAY MARRY THEIR SISTERS-IN-LAW, IN ANOTHER, IT IS REGARDED AS IMMORAL, IN ONE COUNTRY PEOPLE MAY MARRY ONLY ONCE, IN ANOTHER, MANY TIMES, AND SO FORTH. SIMILARLY, IN ALL OTHER DEPARTMENTS OF MORALITY, WE FIND THE STANDARD VARIES GREATLY - YET WE HAVE THE IDEA THAT THERE MUST BE A UNIVERSAL STANDARD OF MORALITY.

                     SO IT IS WITH DUTY. THE IDEA OF DUTY VARIES MUCH AMONG DIFFERENT NATIONS. IN ONE COUNTRY,  IF A MAN DOES NOT DO CERTAIN THINGS, PEOPLE WILL SAY HE HAS ACTED WRONGLY, WHILE IF DOES THOSE VERY THINGS IN ANOTHER COUNTRY, PEOPLE WILL SAY THAT HE DID NOT ACT RIGHTLY - AND YET WE KNOW THAT THERE MUST BE SOME UNIVERSAL IDEA OF DUTY. IN THE SAME WAY THAT HE DID SOME UNIVERSAL IDEA OF DUTY. IN THE SAME WAY, ONE CLASS OF SOCIETY THINKS THAT CERTAIN THINGS ARE AMONG ITS DUTY, WHILE ANOTHER CLASS THINKS QUITE THE OPPOSITE AND WOULD BE HORRIFIED IF IT HAD TO DO THOSE THINGS. TWO WAYS ARE LEFT UPON TO US - THE WAY OF THE IGNORANT, WHO THINK THAT THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY TO TRUTH AND THAT ALL THE REST ARE WRONG, AND THE WAY OF THE WISE, WHO ADMIT THAT, ACCORDING TO OUR MENTAL CONSTITUTION OR THE DIFFERENT PLANES OF EXISTENCE IN WHICH WE ARE, DUTY AND MORALITY MAY VARY. THE IMPORTANT THING IS TO KNOW THAT THERE ARE GRADATIONS OF DUTY AND OF MORALITY - THAT THE DUTY OF ONE STATE OF LIFE , IN ONE SET OF CIRCUMSTANCES, WILL NOT AND CANNOT BE THAT OF ANOTHER.

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                    TO ILLUSTRATE : ALL GREAT TEACHERS HAVE TAUGHT, "RESIST NOT EVIL". THAT NON-RESISTANCE IS THE HIGHEST MORAL IDEA. WE ALL KNOW THAT, IF A CERTAIN NUMBER OF US ATTEMPTED TO PUT THAT MAXIM FULLY INTO PRACTICE, THE WHOLE SOCIAL FABRIC WOULD FALL TO PIECES, THE WICKED WOULD TAKE POSSESSION OF OUR PROPERTIES AND OUR LIVES, AND WOULD DO WHATEVER THEY LIKED WITH US. EVEN IF ONLY ONE DAY OF SUCH NON-RESISTANCE WERE PRACTICED. IT WOULD LEAD TO DISASTER. YET, INTUITIVELY, IN OUR HEART OF HEARTS WE FEEL THE TRUTH OF THE TEACHING "RESIST NOT EVIL". THIS SEEMS TO US TO BE THE HIGHEST IDEAL, YET TO TEACH THIS DOCTRINE ONLY WOULD BE EQUIVALENT TO CONDEMNING A VAST PORTION OF MANKING. NOT ONLY SO, IT WOULD BE MAKING MEN FEEL THAT THEY WERE ALWAYS DOING WRONG, AND CAUSE IN THEM SCRUPLES OF CONSCIENCE IN ALL THEIR ACTION, IT WOULD WEAKEN THEM, AND THE CONSTANT SELF-DISSAPPROVAL WOULD BREED MORE VICE THAN ANY OTHER WEAKNESS WOULD. TO THE MAN WHO HAS BEGUN TO HATE HIMSELF THE GATE TO DEGENERATION HAS ALREADY OPENED, AND THE SAME IS TRUE OF A NATION.

THE FOUR TYPES OF YOGAS AND ITS USES

 

                                 THE FOUR TYPES OF YOGAS

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                     ❤      KARMA-YOGA

                     ❤      BHAKTI-YOGA

                     ❤      RAJA-YOGA

                     ❤      GNANA-YOGA

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                            KARMA-YOGA IS PURIFYING THE MIND BY MEANS OF WORK. NOW IF ANY WORK IS DONE, GOOD OR BAD, IT MUST PRODUCE AS A RESULT A GOOD OR BAD EFFECT, NO POWER CAN STAY IT, ONCE THE CAUSE IS PRESENT. THEREFORE GOOD ACTION PRODUCING GOOD KARMA, AND BAD ACTION, BAD KARMA, THE SOUL WILL GO ON IN ETERNAL BONDAGE WITHOUT EVER HOPING FOR DELIVERANCE. NOW KARMA BELONGS ONLY TO THE BODY A VEIL BEFORE THE ATMAN. THE VEIL CAST BY BAD KARMA IS IGNORANCE. GOOD KARMA HAS THE POWER TO STRENGTHEN THE MORAL POWERS. AND THUS IT CREATES NON-ATTACHMENT, IT DESTROYS THE TENDENCY TOWARDS BAD KARMA AND THEREBYT PURIFIES THE MIND. BUT IF THE WORK IS DONE WITH THE INTENTION OF ENJOYMENT, IT THEN PRODUCES ONLY THAT VERY ENJOYMENT AND DOES NOT PURIFY THE MIND OR CHITTA. 

                     THEREFORE ALL WORK SHOULD BE DONE WITHOUT ANY DESIRE TO ENJOY THE FRUITS THEREOF. ALL FEAR AND ALL DESIRE TO ENJOY HERE OR HEREAFTER MUST BE BANISHED FOR EVER OF RETURN WILL DESTROY THE SELFISHNESS, WHICH IS THE ROOT OF ALL BONDAGE. THE WATCHWORD OF THE KARMA-YOGIS IS NOT I, BUT THOU", AND NO AMOUNT OF SELF-SACRIFICE IS TOO MUCH FOR HIM. BUT HE DOES THIS WITHOUT ANY DESIRE TO GO TO HEAVEN, OR GAIN NAME OR FAME OR ANY OTHER BENEFIT IN THIS UNSELF WORK IS ONLY IN JNANA-YOGA, YET THE NATURAL DIVINITY OT MAN MAKES HIM LOVE ALL SACRIFICE SIMPLY FOR THE GOOD OF OTHERS, WITHOUT ANY ULTERIOR MOTIVE, WHATEVER HIS CREED OR OPINION. AGAIN, WITH MANY THE BONDAGE OF WEALTH IS VERY GREAT, AND KARMA-YOGA IS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY FOR THEM BREAKING THE CRYSTALLISATION THAT HAS GATHERED ROUND THEIR LOVE OF MONEY.

                                  👀 BHAKTI-YOGA 👀

                              BHAKTI OR WORSHIP OR LOVE IN SOME FORM OR OTHERS IN THE EASIEST, PLEASANTEST AND MOST NATURAL WAY OF MAN. THE NATURAL STATE OF THIS UNIVERSE IS ATTRACTION, EVEN SO, LOVE IS THE NATURAL IMPETUS OF UNION IN THE HUMAN HEART, AND THOUGH ITSELF A GREAT CAUSE OF MISERY, PROPERLY DIRECTED TOWARDS THE PROPER OBJECT, IT BRINGS DELIVERANCE. THE OBJECT OF BHAKTI IS GOD. LOVE CANNOT BE WITHOUT A SUBJECT AND AN OBJECT. THE OBJECT OF LOVE AGAIN MUST BE AT FIRST A BEING WHO CAN RECIPROCATE OUR LOVE. THEREFORE THE GOD OF LOVE MUST BE IN SOME SENSE A HUMAN GOD. HE MUST BE A GOD OF LOVE. ASIDE FROM THE QUESTION WHETHER SUCH A GOD EXISTS OR NOT, IT IS A FACT THAT TO THOSE WHO HAVE LOVE IN THEIR HEART THIS ABSOLUTE APPEARS AS A GOD OF LOVE, AS PERSONAL 

                      THE LOWER FORMS OR WORSHIP, WHICH EMBODY THE IDEA OF GOD AS A JUDGE OR PUNISHER OR SOMEONE TO BE OBEYED THROUGH FEAR, DO NOT DESERVE TO BE CALLED LOVE, ALTHOUGH THEY ARE FORMS OF WORSHIP GRADUALLY EXPANDING INTO HIGHER FORMS. WE PASS ON TO THE CONSIDERATION OF LOVE ITSELF. WE WILL ILLUSTRATE LOVE BY A TRIANGLE, OF WHICH THE FIRST ANGLE AT THE BASE IS FEARLESSNESS. SO LONG AS THERE IS FEAR, IT IS NOT LOVE. LOVE BANISHES ALL FEAR. A MOTHER WITH HER BABY WILL FACE A TIGER TO SAVE HER CHILD. THE SECOND ANGLE IS THAT LOVE NEVER ASKS, NEVER BEGS. THE THIRD OR THE APEX IS THAT LOVE LOVES FOR THE SAKE OF LOVE ITSELF. EVEN THE IDEA OF OBJECT VANISHES. LOVE IS THE ONLY FORM IN WHICH LOVE IS LOVED. THIS IS THE HIGHEST ABSTRACTION AND THE SAME AS THE ABSOLUTE.

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                      THIS YOGA FITS IN WITH EVERY ONE OF  THESE YOGIS. IT FITS INQUIRERS OF ALL CLASSESS WITH OR WITHOUT ANY BELIEF, AND IT IS THE REAL INSTRUMENT OF RELIGIOUS INQUIRY. AS EACH SCIENCE HAS ITS PARTICULAR METHOD OF INVESTIGATION, SO IS THIS RAJA-YOGA THE METHOD OF RELIGION. THIS SCIENCE ALSO IS VARIOUSLY APPLIED ACCORDING TO VARIOUS CONSTITUTIONS. THE CHIEF PARTS ARE THE PRANAYAMA, CONCENTRATION, AND MEDITATION. FOR THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN GOD, A SYMBOLIC NAME, SUCH AS OM OR OTHER SACRED WORDS RECEIVED FROM A GURU, WILL BE VERY HELPFUL. OM IS THE GREATEST, MEANING THE ABSOLUTE. MEDITATING ON THE MEANING OF THESE HOLY NAMES WHILE REPEATING THEM IS THE CHIEF PRACTICE.

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                     THIS IS DIVIDED INTO THREE PARTS. FIRST: HEARING THE TRUTH- THAT THE ATMAN IS THE ONLY REALITY AND THAT EVERYTHING ELSE IS MAYA (RELATIVITY).      SECOND : REASONING UPON THIS PHILOSOPHY FROM ALL POINTS OF VIEW. THIRD : GIVING UP ALL FURTHER ARGUMENTATION AND REALISING THE TRUTH. THIS REALIZATION COMES FROM (1) BEING CERTAIN THAT BRAHMAN IS REAL AND EVERYTHING ELSE IS UNREAL,

                      2. GIVING UP ALL DESIRE FOR ENJOYMENT

                      3. CONTROLLING THE SENSE AND THE MIND

                      4. INTENSE DESIRE TO BE FREE. MEDITATING ON THIS REALITY ALWAYS AND REMINDING THE SOUL OF ITS REAL NATURE ARE THE ONLY WAYS IN THIS YOGA. IT IS THE HIGHEST, BUT MOST DIFFICULT. MANY PERSONS GET AN INTELLECTUAL GRASP OF IT, BUT VERY FEW ATTAIN REALISATION.

THE KARMA CHARACTER!

 

                             THE EFFECT OF KARMA

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                                AGING AND DEATH

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                     TOWARD THE END OF A PERSON'S LIFE, AS THE ALLOTTED KARMA REACHES COMPLETION, THE ENERGY BODY BEGINS TO GROW FEEBLE. AS A RESULT, THE PHYSICAL BODY GROWS INCREASINGLY FEEBLE AS WELL, AND THE CAPACITY OF THE ENERGY, OR PRANIC, BODY TO HOLD ON TO THE PHYSICAL BODY RECEDES. AS THE INFORMATION RUNS OUT, LIFE SLOWLY PETERS OUT. PHYSICAL LIFE BEGINS TO LOSE ITS INTENSITY.

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                    THIS IS WHY YOU MAY NOTICE THAT EVEN A PERSON WHO HAS LIVED A VERY BASE, MATERIAL LIFE OFTEN SEEMS IN THE LAST FEW DAYS BEFORE THEIR DEATH TO CARRY AN AIR OF ETHEREAL PEACE, MATURITY, AND WISDOM. SUCH A PERSON IS MUCH LESS ATTACHED TO PEOPLE AND LESS SHAKEN BY EXTERNAL SITUATIONS.

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                       WHEN THE PRANIC (ENERGY) BODY IS FEEBLE, IT WILL SLIP OUT OF THE BODY. THIS IS WHAT WE CALL DEATH OLD AGE. THE DOCTORS INCARIABLY DIAGNOSE THIS AS AN ORGAN FAILURE OF SOME SORT,  BUT THE FACT IS JUST THAT THE PERSON HAS SLIPPED OUT OF THE BODY BECAUSE OF THE FEEBLENESS OF THE ENERGY BODY. THIS IS THE IDEAL WAY TO DIE BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT BEING FORCED OUT OF THE BODY, YOU ARE NATURALLY MOVING OUT. THIS IS A GOOD WAY TO GO.

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                  SUCH BEINGS EXIST NOW NOT ON THE BASIS OF DISCRETION OR CONSCIOUS VOLITION BUT ON THE BASIS OF THEIR TENDENCIES, WHICH BUFFET THEM ABOUT WITHOUT ANY VOLITION ON THEIR PART. SINCE THEY ARE RULED ONLY BY TENDENCIES AT THIS POINT, THE KARMA TAKES MUCH LONGER TO WORK ITSELF OUT.

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                      BASICALLY , THIS MEANS THAT IF YOU FUNCTION UNCONSCIOUSLY, YOUR KARMA RULES YOU ABSOLUTELY. AS SOON AS YOU FUNCTION WITH SOME AWARENESS, THE POWER OF KARMA OVER YOURLIFE WEAKNESS. IN LIFE BEYOND THE BODY, DISCRETION DOES NOT EXIST, SO KARMA RULES ABSOLTELY. IF YOU HAVE PLEASANT KARMA WITHIN YOU, IT GETS MAGNIFIED, AND IF YOU HAVE UNPLEASANT KARMA WITHIN YOU, IT GETS INTENSIFIED. IT IS THESE INTERNAL CONDITONS THAT ARE REFERRED TO AS HEAVEN AND HELL IN MANY TRADITIONS.

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                    THIS IS WHY IT IS SO IMPORTANT TO ADDRESS YOUR KARMA WHEN YOU ARE IN THE EMBODIES STATE. AT THIS POINT, YOU CAN WORK OUT IN TEN YEARS WHAT MIGHT TAKE A HUNDRED YEARS IN THE DISEMBODIED CONDITION.

                    

                        EVEN TODAY, THERE ARE TENDENCIES THAT ARE PUSHING AND PULLING YOU. THIS IS WHY THE WORD RESPONSIBILITY IS SO IMPORTANT. IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO EXERCISE THE CHOICE EVERY MOMENT OF YOUR LIFE, EITHER TO FOLLOW YOUR TENDENCY OR TO MAKE A CONSCIOUS DECISION. IF YOU LIVE WITH THIS SENSE OF RESPONSIBILITY, YOUR TENDENCIES WILL NOT RULE YOU, AND YOUR FUTURE WILL NOT MIMIC THE PAST.

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                       THERE IS MUCH TERROR IN THE WORLD AROUND THE IDEA OF GHOSTS. SINCE THE ALLOTTED KARMA IS STILL STRONG, THEIR PRESENCE IS FELT A LITTLE MORE STRONGLY FOR A LITTLE WHILE. THE MORE SENSITIVE MAY BE ABLE TO SENS THIS. BUT THERE IS NOTHING TO FEAR ABOUT THEIR PRESENCE. THINK OF A GHOST SIMPLY AS A PERSON, LIKE YOU, WHO HAPPENED TO LOSE THEIR BODY. YOU ARE ALSO A GHOST, BUT WITH A BODY. NOT MUCH OF A DIFFERENCE, REALLY! A GHOST WITH A BODY CAN CAUSE MUCH HARM, AS YOU KNOW, BUT A GHOST WITHOUT A BODY HAS MEAGER CAPABILITIES.

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                        THE WORD KARMA IS DERIVED FROM THE SANSKRIT KRI, TO DO, ALL ACTION IS KARMA. TECHNICALLY, THIS WORD ALSO MEANS THE EFFECTS OF ACTIONS. IN CONNECTION WITH METAPHYSICS, IT SOMETIMES MEANS THE EFFECTS, OF WHICH OUT PAST ACTIONS WERE THE CAUSES. BUT IN KARMA-YOGA WE HAVE SIMPLY TO DO WITH THE WORD KARMA AS MEANING WORK. THE GOAL OF MANKIND IS KNOWLEDGE. THAT IS THE ONE IDEAL PLACED BEFORE US BY EASTERN PHILOSOPHY. PLEASURE IS NOT THE GOAL OF MAN, BUT KNOWLEDGE. PLEASURE AND HAPPINESS COME TO AN END. IT IS A MISTAKE TO SUPPOSE THAT PLEASURE IS THE GOAL. THE CAUSE OF ALL THE MISERIES WE HAVE IN THE WORD IS THAT MEN FOOLISHLY THINK PLEASURE TO NE THE IDEAL TO STIVE FOR. AFTER A TIME MAN FINDS THAT IT IS NOT HAPPINESS, BUT KNOWLEDGE, TOWARDS WHICH HE IS GOING, AND THE BOTH PLEASURE AND PAIN ARE GREAT TEACHERS, AND THAT HE LEARNS AS MUCH FROM EVIL AS FROM GOOD. AS PLEASURE AND PAIN PASS BEFORE HIS SOUL THEY HAVE UPON IT DIFFERENT PICTURES, AND THE RESULT OF THESE COMBINED IMPRESSIONS IS WHAT IS CALLED MAN'S "CHARACTER". IF YOU TAKE THE CHARACTER OF ANY MAN, IT REALLY IS BUT THE AGGREGATE OF TENDENCIES, THE SUM TOTAL OF THE BENT OF HIS MIND, YOU WILL FIND THAT MISERY AND HAPPINESS ARE EQUAL FACTORS IN THE FORMATION OF THAT CHARACTER. GOOD AND EVIL HAVE AN EQUAL SHARE IN MOULDING CHARACTER, AND IN SOME INSTANCES MISERY IS A GREATER TEACHER THAN HAPPINESS. IN STUDYING THE GREAT CHARACTERS THE WORLD HAS PRODUCED, I DARE SAY, IN THE VAST MAJORITY OF CASES, IT WOULD BE FOUND THA IT WAS MISERY THAT TAUGHT MORE THAN HAPPINESS, IT WAS POVERTY THAT TAUGHT MORE THAN WEALTH, IT WAS BLOWS THAT BROUGHT OUT THEIR INNER FIVE MORE THAN PRAISE.