Commentaries by Vee Jay Attri during the Book Study - Secrets of Karma
Let us continue with our wonderful study from the Secrets of Karma. Yesterday, we were talking about creating your own destiny. We said that the destiny is in our hands. That means it’s up to you, what you want to make your life. It’s up to you what you want to create for yourself and to the people in your life and at large, to the world.
So, this is the most important tool that we have. A tool that has the power to transform our destiny. That is why we read a very beautiful quotation:
To predict the future is difficult. To create the future is easier. Use the law of karma to create your future.
Your destiny is truly in your hands. Even if people read your horoscope and say your Kundli is not good, your hand lines are not that good, this is not valid for us. Having transcended the plane of matter, for a spiritual aspirant, there is only higher levels of vibrations that have an effect in our life.
So, while we are in the world of matter, because mentally, having transcended the world of matter for a spiritual practitioner, whatever are the laws that are defined may not be absolutely true for us.
That means the position of the planets, the position of whatever, it does not affect you because you have substantially transcended all this. Why? Because you have worked on yourself.
You have generated good karma and on the strength of the good karma that you have generated and on the strength of lessons that you have learned, deeply and thoroughly, the destiny is already transformed for you.
So, what people call about influence of planets, influence of the lines in your hands, is no longer applicable to you and that is the reason why, you have to cultivate unshakable faith and fearlessness. Having cultivated faith and fearlessness, we live a life full of cheerfulness.
That is exactly the essence of spirituality: Unshakable faith, fearlessness and cheerfulness. If you are able to remember these three important aspects of your existence, nothing can touch you. Focus on the light. Again and again, you are being reminded by the teachers.
When you put your focus on the light, the darkness by itself will disappear. Try doing this very simple experiment today. It will properly get printed in your mind. It will be very clear to you. Do it like an exercise. You just make your home pitch dark for a moment and then light a candle and see what happens.
You should do it. I know you know what will happen, but do it so that there will be a kind of subconscious programming that will be happening. You will realize that where there is light, there cannot be darkness. It will happen by itself.
So, rather than putting your focus over and over again to darkness or negative aspects of your life, or negative people, shift your consciousness. Put your focus on light, on God, on the Great Masters. Where there is light, there cannot be darkness!
This is the best way to transform the conditions of your life and keep on putting your focus on doing something good. Do not lose a second, even a minute in useless thoughts and unproductive activities. You must live like a normal human. That is good!
Once in a while, having little fun here and there, going out to have something but don’t make it a routine, that you completely forget that you are a spiritual being having a human embodiment.
Some people when they eat and when you look at their face, it is so scary. You really wonder what is the difference between an animal which is eating and a human that is eating. Very sorry to be very crude with you but that’s the reality!
You have to live as a spiritual being in every aspect of your life. That means, when you are feeding your body, there need to be a deeper level of awareness that I, the soul, the spiritual being, is feeding my body but do not actually become the body and completely forget your identity.
That is the basic problem today. Having lost that self identity, people are in big trouble. All the pain, all the miseries of life invariably, are the result of body consciousness. You, the soul, you keep forgetting that you are a spiritual being.
Where there is body consciousness and where the identity of the soul is lost, there can only be misery ultimately. This is the truth and that is the reason why, every time you are experiencing something good in life, not that you need to renounce that goodness.
Be aware of that goodness, enjoy whatever that you are doing but do it from the standpoint or the viewpoint of a spiritual being. This is very important. Once you remember that you are a spiritual being most part of the day, no influence of the material world have an effect on you.
That is the promise of the Masters. That means that you have to refine your vibrations. You have to refine the frequency with which you are vibrating. Like attracts like. At the beginning itself, we spoke about that.
Once you shift your consciousness to a higher level of frequency, what will come to you is of a different level altogether. That means, the mundane activities or psychic attacks of contamination and intrusions are no longer applicable to you because you do not actually have any trace of such vibrations to get affected with these energies.
So, focus on the light and do activities that will enrich the soul. Keep checking, what is your level of consciousness every moment? That will automatically help you to refine your vehicles and consequently after some time, you will notice that the vehicles do not demand anything that is of grosser in nature.
If you do not train your vehicles including the kamakosha, the body of desire, also called the astral body, the astral body will start having an existence of its own. If you are every time having fear, uncontrollable anger and uncontrollable frustrations or sadness, you the soul, you have been overpowered by this vehicle called astral body or the kamakosha, the body of desire.
You have lost your identity and consequently, whatever that is familiar to that body, with whichever level of vibration it is accustomed to, that is exactly what it will continue to do. It is like when you ask people to take a vegetarian diet, I heard them telling, “I cannot eat grass!”
So, for them, a vegetarian meal is like eating grass. Why? Because there is such an utter level of body consciousness. The soul believes it is a body and the body now is dominating the soul. The body simply goes by what it likes and what it does not like. In the same way, the astral body also has its own choices.
If you do not tame it properly, just like your physical body which is untamed, demanding sometimes sex, sometimes food, sometimes this, sometimes that; in the same way, the astral vehicle will also keep ruling you with varying degrees of emotions from anger to frustration, to sadness, to depression, to fear, to everything.
You have to live as a spiritual being. That is the only way you can progress in your life. So, having read the Chapter 1, let’s do some inner reflection. You have to silently repeat after me. There are seven points in the inner reflection from the Chapter 1. The first one, please silently repeat after me.
Inner reflection from Chapter 1 (Essence of Karma)
- Despite my goodness, if people cause me pain, it is due to the effects of my past actions.
- I will not judge anyone. There is a perfect justice in bad people having good times and good people having bad times.
- It is in giving that I receive. I will rejoice in others’ success and help all become successful.
- I will not worry. When the situation is beyond my control, I will focus on positive activities, just do my best and surrender to God.
- I will get my reward for all my good actions and efforts at the right time. I will not give up.
- I will not be upset over small issues and I will pay my debts cheerfully. I have full faith that everything happens for the good and I can transform any adversity to my advantage.
- My destiny is in my hands. I will create my destiny by generating positive karma through kind and righteous actions.
Further reading, Secrets of Karma, Page 35
