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| The [universal] Law of Cause and Effect[Part 3] |
What about past karma and how it is influencing you now?
There are three things you can do about past karma.
One is to pay your karmic debts. Most people choose to do that —
unconsciously, of course. This may be a choice you make, also.
Sometimes there’s a lot of suffering involved in the payment of those debts, but the Law of Karma says no debt in the universe ever goes unpaid. There is a perfect accounting system in this universe, and everything
is a constant “to and fro” exchange of energy.
The second thing you can do is to transmute or transform your karma to a more desirable
experience. This is a very interesting process in which you ask yourself, as you’re paying your
karmic debt, “What can I learn from this experience? Why is this happening and what is the
message that the universe is giving to me? How can I make this experience useful to my fellow
human beings?”
By doing this, you look for the seed of opportunity and then tie that seed of opportunity
with your dharma, with your purpose in life.
This allows you to transmute the karma to a new expression.
For example, if you break your leg while playing sports, you might ask, “
What can I learn from this experience? What is the message that the universe is giving me?”
Perhaps the message is that you need to slow down and be more careful
or attentive to your body the next time.
And if your dharma is to teach others what you know, then by asking, “
"How can I make this experience useful to my fellow human beings?”" You may decide to share what you learned by writing a book about playing sports safely.
Or you may design a special shoe or leg support that prevents the kind of injury you experienced.
This way, while paying your karmic debt, you will have also converted the adversity into a
benefit that may bring you wealth and fulfillment. This is the transmutation of your karma into
a positive experience. You haven’t really gotten rid of your karma, but you are able to take a
karmic episode and create a new and positive karma out of it.
The third way to deal with karma is to transcend it. To transcend karma is to become
independent of it. The way to transcend karma is to keep experiencing the gap, the Self, the
Spirit. It’s like washing a dirty piece of cloth in a stream of water. Every time you wash it, you
take away a few stains. You keep washing it again and again, and each time it gets a little
cleaner. You wash or transcend the seeds of your karma by going into the gap and coming out
again. This, of course, is done through the practice of meditation.
All actions are karmic episodes. Drinking a cup of coffee is a karmic episode. That action
generates memory, and memory has the ability or the potentiality to generate desire.
And desire generates action again. The operational software of your soul is karma, memory, and
desire. Your soul is a bundle of consciousness that has the seeds of karma, memory, and desire.
By becoming conscious of these seeds of manifestation, you become a conscious generator of
reality. By becoming a conscious choice-maker, you begin to generate actions that are evolutionary
for you and for those that are around you. And that’s all you need to do.
As long as karma is evolutionary — for both the Self and everyone affected by the Self —
then the fruit of karma will be happiness and success.
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| [Applying the Law of Cause and Effect] |
[source:7 spiritual Laws of Success]
