Commentaries by Vee Jay Attri during the Book Study – Secrets of Karma
Let us begin with our study from the Secrets of Karma. We were reading an extremely important chapter; neutralizing karma. We were reading the chapter on balancing through blessing. Extremely important study, the importance of balancing through blessing. This is an extremely important subject, the subject of karma. What is equally important is contemplation. It is the contemplation that brings power to knowledge. Otherwise, knowledge simply remains as information.
The reason why people are not able to transform their lives is basically because they do not have the power of contemplation. Even one word you pick it up and when you contemplate on that, you will start discovering many levels of truth.
It is the contemplation that helps you in inner transformation. It is the contemplation, especially during the moments of death that brings greater light in your life. Contemplation should be a natural aspect of your existence. In Sanskrit, we say: Antumate so gathe.
That means, whatever thought that you have at the time of leaving the body is exactly what you will accomplish but the training has to happen now. The training is power of contemplation, picking up any point and contemplating on that.
That is why, at the end of the lifetime, when people are able to remember the God source, then the soul does not have to pass through different levels of existence. It does not have to pass through the astral plane, the lower mental plane. It goes directly towards the greater light.
It all depends upon what was the last thought that was there preceding the death, that is most important understanding. It has been said in the great scripture, Bhagavad Gita. So, you have to remember power of contemplation is an extremely important subject of spiritual advancement.
I happened to listen to a very interesting story by a saint. Of course, it is from scriptures and therefore for some of you, it might be sounding to be very abstract but that is alright. It is not important that you have to go by the story. What is important is the message and the essence that is contained within the story.
So, the saint was actually talking about a person called “Gokarna,” the story of Gokarna. It is a very long story and I am just trying to simplify it.
It so happened that the brother of Gokarna was a vicious person. All his life, he had been cheating people. In fact, he was responsible for making his parents so miserable that the mother committed suicide and the father simply left everything and went to the forest. So, this person, the brother of Gokarna, being such a vicious person, after the leaving of the parents, he brought five prostitutes home and he was basically having a very sensuous life with full of passion.
Now, these five ladies were demanding a lot and then just to fulfill their requirements, he had to start stealing and robbing. Initially, he was robbing common people and over a period of time, he started robbing even the palace. So, it so happened that the king came to know about this and then he was sending the soldiers to arrest this guy. Now, the five ladies came to know about it well in advance.
So, they thought that if this fellow is being caught, we will be in trouble, so better we kill him. So, they killed this person in a very miserable way by burning him. Now this guy became a spirit, a ghost we can call it. He was in the lower astral plane and he was continuing to experience the miserable death that he had and he was screaming for help.
So, it so happened that his brother who was happened to be a saint heard his plea and he thought that he would help his brother in some way. So, he told his brother who was now a ghost or spirit, “I am going to start a study of the scriptures, the Bhagavad Purana as it is called. You have to listen very attentively for seven days and during these 7 days, you will not think of anything excepting what is being taught, what I am basically lecturing about.”
So, the spirit, the ghost accepted and then for seven full days, the ghost was absolutely attentive and contemplating over and over again, day and night about what had been said. On the seventh day, it so happened that a Vimana; a Vimana is basically like a UFO, it was brought from the higher planes exclusively for this ghost to be taken to greater light, meaning ascension. So, he was actually gifted with the ascension because of his power of contemplation.
Now, the people, the devotees, who were also part of the Bhagavad Puranas discourse were protesting. They said, “We people, we did not do anything wrong like your brother who is a ghost now and we have been doing so much good in our life and we have been listening to so many discourses in the past. We have not received the privilege of receiving this Vimana, this UFO or the plane to go to higher realms of life.
“How come this person, a ghost, and who has done so much of sins has been given the privilege of ascending to higher dimensions, when we were basically given no privilege, anything?” So the saint said, “You people have been listening to the Bhagavad Puranas, to the discourses for long time, but you people simply were listening and that was all about it. You were simply listening and then you were carrying on with your own activities, without ever contemplating or giving attention to what you have been listening.
So, because this spirit, that ghost, though it was in a different embodiment as a subtle being, it was day and night contemplating on whatever has been taught to it, whatever that has been discoursed.
And consequently, because of his power of contemplation, he has been bestowed to ascend to greater light and that is exactly the story of the saint. It is a story but if you look into it, it has got lot of sanctity because in the Bhagavad Gita, that is the discourse of Lord Krishna, there is a very profound statement, it says, antumate so gathe.
That means, during the final moment of your life, whatever is the preceding thought is exactly what you will accomplish. That means, just before death, whatever is the thought that is there in your mind, it has got the power to influence your future course of journey.
That is why, in one of the books, Grand Master Choa Kok Sui has written that during the moments of leaving the body, if the person is able to be in tune with the light, then they do not have to pass through different planes to get back to the higher self.
They can easily skip the lower astral, the higher astral, the lower mental, directly they go to the higher mental plane, also called the Paradise. So, the last thought preceding to the death is of so much importance.
That cannot come in one day. That can come through the practice of contemplation and that is the reason why contemplation is extremely important. Take some time during the day for contemplation. Whatever wisdom that you listen from the teachers, from the masters, take some time and make a note of it and over and over again, contemplate on those important points. Certain points are of so much importance, it will quickly take you to amazing levels of understanding. Remember truth is dynamic, so many levels of truth.
So, the same word can actually convey a completely different level of meaning to you because you had actually accessed the higher planes of existence. So, it is only possible through contemplation that you can refine your energy and refinement of energy equals to attuning yourselves to higher dimensions.
So, contemplation, contemplation, contemplation! Remember that. Let’s continue with our study. Yesterday, we were talking about blessing the world. We were blessing the world with the prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi. We shall now continue.
Bless people who are depressed and in pain. Silently say, “May you be blessed with divine strength. May you be healed whole and complete.”
So, whenever you got an opportunity, bless people who are in need of healing. If you do not have anybody, think of the people of the world, just have the intention that your blessings are received by somebody in some part of the world in need of healing, in need of solace.
Bless any person having a weakness or a vice that he or she cannot overcome. You may silently affirm, “May you be blessed with inner strength and willpower to overcome this weakness. With God’s blessings, so be it.”
So, rather than thinking the weakness of people, not only thinking but you are also now narrating them to somebody else, criticizing them, judging them, all these things you have to transcend. People are not able to help themselves because of the intensity of negative psychic energies, the negative psychic energies, whirlpool of negative psychic energies.
Even though people want to be bright, happy, hopeful and strong, they are repeatedly defeated. The reason is the energies that are surrounding the planet, surrounding the countries, surrounding cities, surrounding your own environment.
So, when people are already in pain and suffering, do not add to it with your additional negative thought. Every negative thought in today’s scenario will come back to you manifold because it is immensely affecting people many many manifold.
You can make somebody lose complete hope in anything. Just try to look around and see what is happening, even in countries like India, the number of people who are committing suicide are enormous, mostly youngsters.
I was thinking that it is happening only in European countries or in America but it is happening in countries like India now. Problem is untold misery and untold pain and many of the people who are committing suicide are actually celebrities, not people out of poverty alone, not people out of pain.
So many different types of activities are happening in the world , unspeakable. So, in this condition, every one of your positive thought of hope, of love, of compassion makes a huge impact in the surroundings, in the planet at large.
So, keep reminding yourself about the importance of your contribution!
Further reading, Secrets of Karma, Page 99 – 100
