Commentaries by Vee Jay Attri during the Book Study – Secrets of Karma
Let us have a short study from the Secrets of Karma. We shall continue from the Law of Harvest. Yesterday, we read about As you sow, so you reap. Now. we move to the second one. ‘Debts’ to pay have to be paid.
There is a beautiful quotation here:
‘‘No debt in the universe ever goes unpaid’’
– Deepak Chopra, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success
If you haven’t read this book, please do read. It is an extremely important book to read and it’s a good idea that you put into practice one law per week, each of the days of the week. If you’re able to put the seven laws into practice over a period of seven weeks, you will find the mighty shift in your life happening naturally.
When the seed of your bad karma matures, it can bring misery, even misfortune. So regardless of the cause of your suffering, it is simply the result of karmic debts that you need to pay.
This is a very important statement. Regardless of the cause of your suffering; that means, there is no point in blaming situations, conditions or people for that matter.
It is impossible that you will reap something that you did not sow. This understanding should be all the time borne in mind, regardless of who is responsible for your pain.
You might have a tendency for example, sometimes, to accuse people, blame people that because of you this has happened, because of you that has happened.
But the reality is, because of nobody excepting what you need to pay, things can happen. This is the truth, this is the reality. It is not intended to say that we accept everything all the time, without even taking the basic action required.
There are times when you have to take proper actions, even harsh actions. While appropriate actions are being taken, the awareness should be there that whatever that is coming to me, is a result of something I had sown myself. It is a result of something that anyway I have to reap.
If this understanding is there, then while you are taking actions, even harsh actions, you will be in a state of tranquility, you will be in a state of inner peace. you will be taking action for the sake of taking the action, but not with revenge, not with anger, not with hatred, but simply to fulfill your dharma, your duty.
That is exactly a sense of karma yoga. Regardless of what you do, you are doing for the sake of doing that action.
If you do not have a ‘debt’ to pay, no force in the universe can harm you, for you cannot reap what you did not sow. Thousands may fall dead beside you, but you will be safe. This is the meaning of the statement: ‘My righteousness is my shield’ – Holy Bible.
That means, if you do not have a karma to pay, you can never ever have a problem; not possible. Once you neutralize what you need to, by learning the lessons and generating adequate good karma, it will be finished, the matter will be over.
That is why, it has been repeatedly said that if you do not have a debt to pay, no force in the universe can make you suffer. So, Grand Master Choa Kok Sui had mentioned that, if you do not have a karma to pay, you can walk inside a nuclear explosion but nothing can happen to you. That is exactly how it is.
Sometimes, in many disasters sites, you find that some people come out without any form of hurt or pain. That is basically because they do not have anything to pay. In fact, there was a very beautiful film Grand Master used to mention ‘The Schindler’s List,’ where a person has been repeatedly shot, but simply the bullet would not go.
So, the person who was trying to kill tried everything, including changing the guns but the bullet simply would not go because that person has got no karma to pay. That is exactly how the laws of karma are so exact, so precise. It’s incredible and mind boggling to understand how, to what extent the laws are precise.
Everything happens with precision. Whether it is a tsunami or whether it is a nuclear war, you will find that some people are all the time saved because of the protection of good karma, and because they do not have a particular karma to pay.
They might possibly have some other pain due to which they might suffer, but certain harms cannot touch them because they do not have adulated karma to experience that particular pain.
This is the meaning of the statement: ‘My righteousness is my shield’ – Holy Bible. But when it is time to reap your bad karma, no one can stop you from reaping it either.
So, when there is a lesson for you to learn, sometimes even your good karma cannot protect you, because the lessons have to be learned, regardless of how good a person you are, and regardless of how much good karma you could have generated.
Lessons are extremely important because they are related to the evolution of the soul, the very purpose of our existence. There is a very beautiful story from the scriptures to emphasize this point that when it is time for you to pay your karma, you will have to pay. Nothing can stop you!
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.
Actually, we are talking about the story of Raja Parikshit, you might have heard about him, he’s actually the grandson of one of the greatest warrior in the epic of Mahabharata, Arjuna. So, Raja Parikshit was a great king, a great emperor, but unfortunately, it so happened that he had come to this level of anger to do such a heinous act towards a great spiritual master.
You have to remember that you can play with everybody but you cannot afford to play with spiritual masters, great masters. Karmic repercussions are directly proportional to the spiritual evolution of the person to whom you’re inflicting the pain or harm.
If you’re actually giving pain to an ordinary person, this is okay. But if you do harm to a spiritual person, the effects of karma are magnified manifold. That is why in the ancient times, symbolically, it has been shown that people do not meddle with sages or great rishis because they curse.
It is not that they actually curse, this is all symbolically told to us because you should be very careful in not harming spiritual aspirants or spiritual masters because no rishi of the world can ever curse you. We are able to practice compassion, forgiveness and mercy and we keep sharing it everyday.
Then, the great masters, great rishis, ascended masters, as we call it, they can never even think of harming you, by cursing you. Symbolically, in the scriptures, it is shown like this because you have to be careful because whatever you give to them, comes back to you manifold.
So, when you give one harm to them, it comes back to you multifold. That has been symbolically shown as a curse just to warn you to be very careful. Once I was looking at Grand Master in one of the retreat. Very profound, I’m talking about Grand Master Choa Kok Sui. Some of you might be knowing him, the founder of modern Pranic Healing and Arhatic Yoga.
So, his name is Choa Kok Sui and he was in America. There is a difference between people who are intellectual and people who have the faculty of intelligence. Intelligence is born out of the maturity of the soul. Intellectual is actually a faculty of the brain.
So, in one lifetime, the soul can have a very highly intellectual faculty due to the structure of the brain; due to the fact that there is more grey matter as we call it because of some karma that it has generated in the past lives.
Therefore, intellectual people and intelligence has got a lot of difference. When you talk about; I am a being of divine intelligence, the divine intelligence is born out of the maturity of the soul. Intellectuals are basically aspect of the karma of the person for a particular lifetime.
That means, the supremely intellectual being, intellectual person need not be an intellectual person in another lifetime. In this lifetime, they have a contribution and therefore a suitable brain has been given to them.
So, this person in America, a very intellectual person, serving in a mega multinational corporation, was making fun of the name of Master Choa Kok Sui. The name sounded to be very funny to him.
Unfortunately, Grand Master was passing by and he happened to hear this fellow. Surely, he was not feeling good about it but he just passed away. But later this guy; he lost his job and for many years he could not get another job.
This is a real story and this is the truth. You have to be very careful about all these aspects, and that is why Buddha said: ‘‘when you say something not very good about people of worth, the karma follows you for eons and eons of times.”
I will be reading this particular passage from Buddha when we come to the law of lag time. So, let us try to understand that when we say curse, it is simply a way of warning you to be very careful not to meddle with spiritual masters.
Further reading: Secrets of Karma, Page 15
