Commentaries by Vee Jay Attri during the Book Study – Secrets of Karma
We were reading about Law of harvest; ‘Debts’ to pay have to be paid. We talked about a very important quotation from the Holy Bible: My righteousness is my shield. So, it mentioned that if you do not have anything to pay, nothing can touch you.
We were taking the example of master’s teachings. If you don’t have any karma to pay, you can walk inside a nuclear explosion and come out without not even a scar. So, that is about karma. There is an incredible precision mechanism that happens all the time, 24/7, 365 or 366 days a year.
This is a very important understanding that you need to bring into your life. Regardless of what is happening, remember it is a part of the divine plan. If it is a suffering, accept it cheerfully, without refuting, without reacting, knowing that you will only reap that which you had sown.
But when it is time to reap your bad karma, no one can stop you from reaping it either.
Just like when it is time for you to reap your good karma, it will come to you. That is exactly how people hit a jackpot. There are people who have actually hit even 500, 600 million jackpot, 600 million dollars jackpot. But many a times, we come across very strange episodes from these people.
They have the inability to retain the money that they had actually received. So, reaping the benefits of your good karma is one thing, but retaining the benefit of the good karma is entirely a different cup of tea.
This happens very frequently, you will find many successful people, including celebrities, having everything in life but one thing that is missing is happiness, joy, peace. The reason is that while they have a lot of good karma but then, the motive behind generating those good karma was not a selfless motive.
Motive makes a huge difference in what accrues from whatever that you are generating karmically. So, as a great master, Dr Annie Besant, in one of her books, had so beautifully mentioned that if the motive is not pure, is not selfless, then the benefit accruing from the karma is also not wholesome.
She was taking an example of someone opening a hospital or some other benevolent activity but the motive behind that was not selfless love or pure benevolence. There was a selfishness attached to it; name and fame.
Because of that, though the person is obliged karmically to reap whatever they have to reap or the good karma that they have generated, but what they derive from the good karma that they have generated, the pleasure is not complete because of the poor motive.
So, that is exactly is the most important point you need to mentally make a note of.
You are doing good for the sake of doing good to somebody, not because the person should think of you, not because the person should have gratitude for what you have done, not because you need to have the name and fame or people should recognize your contribution.
The biggest service that you render in life are the work, the service that you render secretly.
That is why in the Holy Bible it is written: Let the left hand do not know what the right hand is giving. It is an extremely profound teaching and that is the reason why, you should do something for your own sake, no need to do a service or any kind of help to anybody because people should have gratitude, because people should say you are a good person but because that is the right thing to do.
Long ago, there was a king who ruled over a vast kingdom. One day, he went hunting and after a long day felt very thirsty. He saw a sage meditating under a tree and asked for some water. As the sage did not reply, the king got furious and placed a dead snake around the sage’s neck.
I was actually wondering how can a great emperor ever do this act. This is a very interesting point to make a note of. The king that we are talking about is a very great king, a very great emperor called Raja Parikshit, who happened to be the grandson of a great great warrior of Mahabharat, Arjuna, he was a great warrior, extraordinary warrior.
So, his great grandson was Raja Parikshit or the king Parikshit. How did he go to this level of arrogance of putting the snake around the neck of a great Rishi who was meditating? There is a very interesting episode preceding to this particular incidence.
As per the scriptures, it is said that once the Kali; Kali is actually the king of the dark age that is why we say Kalyug, that is dark age that we are actually having now. It is basically because of the effect of a very great, you can call it a black being called Kali. This Kali happened to visit Raja Parikshit.
So he told Raja Parikshit, ‘Give me a place to live!’ Raja Parikshit said ‘ No, I cannot give you any place, because you do not deserve any place.’ Then, the Kali insisted that “No, you must give me a place definitely.” So, Raja Parikshit gave him three different places. It is a very old story, ancient story that I heard when I was a boy.
One is a pub or the place where alcohol is being served, the second one was a brothel; prostitute place, the third one was where there is gold. The moment the king gave these 3 places to the being of the dark age, the Kali said: ‘Oh King, you have got a crown made up of gold. You give me a small place in your crown.’ The king said, ‘No problem, you can take this!’
Now, it is a very interesting thing for you to understand when we talk about crown, ancient times, the crown was actually a symbolic of a very important chakra in our system called the sahasrara, also called the crown chakra.
When the crown chakra is affected with negative energies; sometimes we use the words negative elementals. So, when the crown chakra is affected by a negative elemental, this negative elemental slowly starts deteriorating the capacity for discernment.
Some of you who know healing, you will understand that when the crown chakra is affected with a negative elemental or negative entities arising out of intense negative thoughts, over a period of time, the faculty of discernment diminishes.
That is exactly what happened to Raja Parikshit. So, because he gave place to Kali in his crown, symbolically the crown chakra, the mukuta as we call it, it is a symbolic representation of the chakra, the energy center at the top of the head. Because of that, his capacity for discernment diminished to such a level that he went to the extent of putting a dead snake around the neck of a sage.
These are all very extraordinary esoteric teachings you need to ponder upon very deeply. If you have not done pranic psychotherapy, I very strongly urge you to do pranic psychotherapy. And if you have already done it, please read the book overall again and start doing some regular treatment for your crown chakra. It is a very important chakra, of course there are other chakras.
These are all basically very extraordinary teachings that are contained in many of the esoteric teachings. People simply took it literally without understanding the esoteric meaning or the deeper secrets of this great teachings. So, that is exactly how Raja Parikshit ended up in coming to the level of putting a dead snake around the neck of the sage who was meditating.
One of the senior disciples of the sage who saw this terrible insult got furious and cursed the king that he would die of snakebite in seven days. Terrified by this curse, the king locked himself in the tallest tower of his kingdom, placed one thousand soldiers on guard everywhere in and around the tower and instructed them to be vigilant and prevent even an insect from entering the tower.
You remember, he had been cursed. So, the curse was that the king would die of snakebite in seven days.
On the seventh day, while having his food, the king bit a fruit, and suddenly a worm that was hidden within the fruit got transformed into a deadly serpent and killed him instantly. Thus the king reaped the bad karma of insulting a sage in spite of all his great efforts to thwart it.
I vaguely remember this was the King of serpents called Takshaka. Some of you might know this. I have to check exactly because I am trying to recall a story that I heard decades back.
No matter what you do, karmic debts have to be paid at the due time. So, bad things happen not because of the negative influence of planets or ill effects of evil power as some people think, but because the time of payment of one’s karmic debts has come.
Moreover, you give power to the evil often with your thoughts.
Do not focus on negative things, giving more power to them. So, there is a beautiful cartoon that says “Think of the devil and here he comes!“
Therefore, when the conditions of life are bad, do not focus on negative things, giving more power to them. Instead, focus on positive activities while refraining from negative actions, and invoke God’s blessings. ‘Where there is Light, there is no Darkness’.
That means, no need to run to a priest or a pandit for any kind of salvation. You don’t have to go to a black magician. Focus on the light and keep generating good karma. Because what you have to pay, you will have to pay.
Temporarily, you can avoid a karma materializing, but later what you have to pay you will have to pay. That is why Dr. Deepak Chopra said so beautifully in the ‘Seven spiritual laws of success,’ No debt in the universe can ever go unpaid,’ a very profound statement.
That means the debts to be pay, have to be paid. So, next time when you are confronting a problem, start generating a lot of good karma and put your focus on bright positive things.
Put your mind on God, put your mind on the Great Masters, put your mind on teachings of the Great Masters, pick up some good books, start reading them and then more importantly start contemplating on them.
It is the contemplation that is actually creating the awareness, not just reading. It is the contemplation that brings power to the knowledge. Otherwise, it simply remains as information.
Further reading: Secrets of karma, page 15
