Commentaries by Vee Jay Attri during the Book Study – Secrets of Karma
We proceed with the study from the Secrets of Karma. Here we go with the blessings!
Blessing your organization, projects and goals.
Teachers and parents are very important.
If you are a teacher, bless your students.
So, rather than getting disturbed with any people in your life, all the time choose the option of blessing. While you will take appropriate actions as the situations are demanding, focus on transforming the energies. As we work with the inner world, the outer world will be gradually healed.
That is exactly how long-term solutions can be found. All the time, bless, bless and bless! That is the secret for long-term happiness, long-term solutions.
You may also bless the political leaders of your country and the world with the will to do good.
That means, we have no right to have any critical thoughts towards anybody. If you look into many of the whatsapp groups nowadays, so much of critical thoughts directed towards many political leaders.
Not that we accept them for whatever they are doing. We have to all the time exercise discernment, understanding what is happening, state what is happening also, but together with whatever we are stating, let’s also have the thought of benevolence; that I am stating all this, not for condemning people, not for belittling people but for helping them to recognize and then move forward. The bottom-line is, everybody comes with a package, package of past karmas, package of past sanskars or habits that are ingrained into the soul and into the vehicles.
So, though people want to become better, because of several constraints, on one side, the soul has to go through certain experiences through which it has to learn the lesson. On the other side, it carries intense sanskaras.
The sanskaras are basically past tendencies, repeated actions that have been ingrained in several vehicles. So, to get rid of them in just one lifetime is not an easy task for any soul. Here, our good wishes, our blessings will play a massive role.
I have seen people transforming, though not 100%, at least 50% but that itself is considered to be a great accomplishment in one lifetime of the journey of the soul. So, from our side, we shall always consider the option of blessings.
Bless people with whom you have a difficult time or any misunderstanding. Silently say, “I bless you with peace. May all obstacles that prevent us from having a harmonious relationship be healed.”
So, this is very important. Also, bless your past. You are connected with so many people from eons of times. Sometimes, it is a good idea that you get in tune with the past and keep blessing, asking for forgiveness. As a matter of fact, we are coming to the chapter of Forgiveness. We do have past connections, regardless of whether we understand it or not.
We have got a past connection with regard to our sanskars, meaning the latent tendencies. We have a past connection with different forms of experiences that we had gone through. That means, if you find some people all the time doubting, you must realize the soul had actually endured much disappointment, much deceit in several lifetimes.
So, the soul has come to a point where it cannot trust anybody. So, rather than getting irritated why the soul is doubting everybody, you should understand that the soul, by the virtue of going through so many deceits, so many disappointments, numerous people cheating lifetime after lifetime, it has lost hope at a deeper level and therefore, its perception towards life is so clouded. Even if it wants to trust a person, trust situations and people, it has lost faith in the system. What do you do?
If you keep condemning the person for doubting everything, this is not only going to add to the misery of the person, you are also blocking the progress of the soul. That is the reason why you have to understand that everybody carries an intense past.
You have to contemplate on this over and over again. Yesterday, we were talking about the subject of contemplation by narrating the story of Gokarna. The story is not very important. Some of you had some questions. Is it possible that the soul continues to suffer even after leaving the physical body?
Physical body is only one reality of the dimension of the plane of gross matter. There are many other dimensions through which the soul has to pass through on its journey to higher life. The next immediate domain where the soul takes shelter in a vehicle called astral body is the emotional world or the astral plane. The astral plane is as real as the physical plane.
So, whatever emotions the soul carries at the time of death, it starts living those experiences even in the astral plane. And not only that, all forms of negative emotions, all the pain and sorrow that the soul has done to others, inflicted on others, it is actually experienced in the astral plane.
The soul definitely goes through a process of purging. Purging means purification. The soul is made to realise over and over again whatever that it has been doing in its short journey on the physical plane. So, even after leaving the physical body, the soul continues to carry all these pain, all the emotions and it is actually made to realise whatever that it has been doing with its life, even in the astral plane.
How long, we do not know but the fact of the matter is that the soul indeed experiences lots and lots of pain even after leaving the body. And that is the reason why a proper conditioning of regulation of your thoughts, your emotions, your feelings that you are directing towards people is so important.
You carry whatever that you are experiencing, whatever that you are doing, even after you leave the physical body. This you keep in the mind. So, all the pain, all the harm that you are inflicting on people is not simply written off once you leave the body.
It is also not that only when you come back into the physical embodiment you will have these experiences, it is carried to other planes of existence. Of course, the topic is very deep. So, all that is to be done is to be very careful about what kind of energy you are radiating to people, to situations and circumstances.
If you are going to radiate lots of fear, you will be carrying this energy of fear even in other lifetimes. You have to substantially neutralize every tendency for negative emotions, period! Every tendency for negative thoughts, critical thoughts and judgements.
That is exactly where blessings directed towards the self, towards others and towards the planet is so important. Let us continue.
Forgiveness
There is a very beautiful quotation from the Holy Bible:
Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, “Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother when he sins against me? Up to seven times?” Jesus answered, “I tell you, not seven times, but seven times seven.”
-Holy Bible
The seven times seven is an extremely important esoteric secret, which is connected to the layers of kundalini. So, there are layers and layers of forgiveness that the soul is expected to practice.
Forgiving people for the harm they cause is essential to neutralize your karmic imbalances with them.
Now, this is a very important subject; Forgiveness. Forgiveness is therapeutic. Now, even if you think why should I forgive people, first and foremost thing, you should ask yourself how did you attract the situation, how did you attract this person? Because you can never receive something that does not belong to you.
That means situations and people are simply an excuse for you to get what you had sown in the past. You have to remember that people are chosen to give you a set of experiences. That person who is acting negatively is already generating a negative karma.
So, the laws of nature anyway will take care of them. You don’t have to punish them back because they are actually causing pain to you. There is all the time justice prevailing in every situation, every condition of life.
And therefore realise that there is nothing for you to forgive because you are simply receiving what you have to receive anyway. The people who have been chosen are anyway going to go through certain experiences because of the act of generating negative karma.
So, rather than having anger towards people who are causing pain, you should have compassion because the laws are very severe. You should remember law of multiplier effect; what you do comes back to you many manifold.
That is why, even at the last moment on the cross, Lord Christ said, “Lord forgive them, for they know not what they are doing.” That is the extraordinary level of compassion. So, a deeper level of forgiveness stems from compassion towards others.
So, I don’t have to punish anybody, the laws will take care of them. However, what is needed at any given time, we always do actions oriented towards helping the person to learn the lesson but beyond certain extent, we don’t get hurt at all.
As a matter of fact, one of the biggest challenge for a spiritual aspirant who is practicing higher levels of meditation is, do not allow anyone to give you internal pain. They might be causing you a lot of pain but you don’t take that pain internally.
Because the pain that has been inflicted towards spiritual practitioner goes back to the person many many manifold. That is why, in the ancient time symbolically we have shown that whenever you give pain or cause harm to saints, to sages, to great masters, they curse you.
Now this is basically symbolic, because you and I cannot curse anybody. So, with great masters and great sages who are actually beings of compassion and mercy, they do not actually curse you, they do not actually cause you any pain.
It has been stated so that you are very careful in meddling with spiritual practitioners or great masters. So, this is very important, most important aspect of healing is forgiveness.
Further reading, Secrets of Karma, Page 100 – 101
