Commentaries by Vee Jay Attri during the Book Study – Secrets of Karma
Welcome to the session of study and Great Invocation. How are you all doing today? Taking good care of yourself, physically, emotionally, mentally, yes! Alright, let us proceed for the study from the book of Secrets of Karma. Before that, we shall take up a few questions related to the subject.
The question is, “There is something on my mind for quite long but I have never asked about it. Most people on earth are born with a veil that obscures the past lives that we have lived and thus, we are unaware of our past karma. Here, I am talking especially, about our bad deeds. Hence, how can most people learn from past mistakes in the past lives if they are unaware of this and they are now reaping the effects of these bad deeds from past lives. How can we uplift the veil or the veils?”
A very deep question indeed, no doubt about it. Sometimes, people do past life regression and they know exactly what had happened in the past so that certain changes can be brought in the present life. We talked about the parents of a physically and mentally disabled child approaching the great master for clairvoyant investigation.
So, such activities sometimes do help that a great master is able to read your past life to help you to learn a specific lesson in this life. This happens and this is good.
However, I will also recommend that you do a self-analysis of your present life. When you ponder deeply into different happenings of your life, say in the last 10 years, sometimes you will notice that there is a repetitive activities that are happening.
Similar challenges but conditions are different. For example, there are people who join an organization and they have got challenging superiors. So, they leave the company and go to another company. There also, they have the same problem.
In this way, they keep on changing organizations after organizations, not realizing that the problem is not with the organization. The problem is with you. The nature puts you in a place where you are expected to learn a specific lesson.
As in this particular case endurance; stretching your level or limits of perseverance, of commitment, of tolerance, of patience, of acceptance despite the challenges. So many lessons!
If you drop all of them and you are simply reacting because the superiors are not actually the way you want, then you can keep on running to organizations after organizations. Even if you do not go to organizations and you decide, “I do not want to work!” , in some other form, you will again be tested, either through a marriage or through some other way.
So, certain lessons have to be learnt regardless of whether you like it or you do not like it. So, it is not about the situations or conditions. This is about the lessons that you are expected to learn. The problem in most of the cases is, we do not do self-analysis.
If you do a sincere self-analysis, analyzing your life over a certain period of time, you will understand that there is a specific trend that keeps repeating. Now when you ponder upon the trend, meditate upon that, suddenly, like a flash you will understand what kind of lesson that you need to learn.
Sometimes lessons are not very obvious and that is exactly is the purpose of meditations. Certain meditations are very important. One of the meditation that I find it very useful is the Meditation on the Soul. While you meditate on the Blue Pearl, if you know this meditation, do it at least once a week. It can really help you a lot. You will have glimpses of what kind of lessons that you are expected to learn in any situation. I am just an example of a meditation.
Some other meditations also, if it is beneficial to you, please continue but important thing is self-analysis. Self-analysis not only with the immediate situation or conditions, self analysis for a prolonged period of time, say about 5 or 10 years. Check what kind of patterns are repeating.
You have to get the message from those patterns. That is an indication. So, even though you don’t have the ability to go in to a past life, even though you may not be able to remove this veil from your past lives, still, observing your present you know exactly what lesson is expected to be learnt.
Please think about it and if you still have some questions, please let me know. Let’s take up one more question before we proceed for the study. Actually, this is an important question we should have continued yesterday but we didn’t have sufficient time to take up the question from the person.
“What if one realizes the lessons that he or she needs to develop, but unable to develop that virtue associated with the lessons in spite of trying his or her best? Will the situation still keep hammering?”
Of course! Situations are there to help you to learn a lesson and if you don’t want to learn the lesson, how will the situations leave you? It is like you fail in Standard 8 and now you ask the teacher, “Is it alright that I fail but still I go to Standard 9?” The teacher will say, “No, you have to pass the test.”
It’s only passing the test that you move up in life. Same thing is with your karma. The lessons have to be learnt no matter. Now, of course, karma is not there to punish you. Remember that. It is benevolent in the sense it actually helps you to strengthen your spiritual muscles, helping you to grow rapidly.
The bigger the challenge, the faster is your growth or development. Now, again coming back to this question, “Why you are not able to learn the lesson?” It could be possible that there is no clear purpose of developing this virtue. There is a purpose. Once you define the purpose, development of a virtue becomes easier.
It is like somebody is overweight and they want to reduce their weight. The purpose is very clear. I want to reduce my weight no matter but if the person says, “I want to reduce my weight but I cannot give up taking pizza. I cannot give up taking fried stuffs but I want to reduce as well.”
Well, you cannot have the cake and eat it too. If the desire is so strong to change, to transform, everything is possible. It is about the desire to grow. In this case, the purpose is to help others. If you are able to master a virtue, conquered a lesson, that is a form of mastery.
Because you have that experience, now you are in a position to help so many other people. So, the purpose here is not to become better only for self-sake but if I become better, I can be of greater service to others, greater service with the hierarchy. So, there is a Proper Definition of Purpose. Once there is PDP, the power automatically comes.
But the clarity of the purpose should be in your mind. Once that is clear, very easy for you to master most of the virtues. So, here to summarize, deep desire to change, based on a purpose. That is the right answer for this question.
If you would like to know more about this particular aspect, please let me know. I will elaborate a little more. For now, let us continue with our study from the Secrets of Karma. We were talking about the bad tooth of the lion and we mentioned that people also have the problem of bad tooth.
What they do or say is often an expression of a deep-seated agony and has nothing to do with what is currently happening. Hence, instead of reacting to their bad behavior, have mercy towards them and help them to heal this inner wound.
Very important. Is it clear? So, we have to have lot of mercy.
You know, in the initial days in our Foundation, I had mentioned this before, there was our neighbor, a lady and she was creating so much of trouble to us because she was at that time, in that particular lane, she was like a queen, the whole road was belonging to her. When we moved in, because it is a meditation center and healing center, many people started coming and there was traffic.
So, she was not appreciating that people were moving in numbers in that particular area. She will look for an opportunity to create nuisance. If for example, when she is coming and a car happens to come in front of her, she will keep on honking. Though she has space to pass through but she will honk. She will compel the person to take a reverse to enter the Foundation and only when she passes, the person can get out.
So, many people were very annoyed and they were saying, “Why can’t we protest and sue this lady? She is really doing so much of harassment every day.” Intuitively we realized that person should be having lot of pain in their personal life because you know, most of the time, when people are highly frustrated, definitely the person is having or had a very terrible life.
I simply told the people that, “Let’s do some blessings regularly to the person so that the person gets healed of the past wounds.” So, we started doing it. Meanwhile, I came to know that indeed, the lady was having so many challenges in her personal life. Despite having everything that she wanted in her life, she didn’t have a life that she wanted. I would not like to elaborate too much. So definitely, a substantial amount of frustration was there in her life.
And then, when we started blessing and not reacting to whatever that she was doing, cooperating as much as we could, after some time, when I was standing on the lane one day, she was coming and then she stopped the car and she said, “Hi, how are you? Everything is fine?” I said, “Thank you Madam, everything is fine, thank you! I’m very sorry that you are at times disturbed with the traffic here.”
She said, “No, don’t worry too much! If ever you do not have enough parking, please use our parking.” She showed me another parking area and said, “Sometimes, you can use this area also for parking,” and then she left. I said, “Wow! What an amazing transformation!” That is exactly is the power of blessings.
So sometimes, when people are having “Bad Tooth,” do not react. Try to understand that they are in pain, they need your help. Cultivate humility!
Before I pick up another subject, I just would like to talk about what I was mentioning earlier. I remembered it. I was telling you that once your lesson is over, the conditions normally change. Most of the time, conditions change but if the conditions do not change despite you learning the lesson deeply, learning the lesson deeply mean, internally there is no reaction. So, after having learnt the lesson deeply, if the condition is still persisting, there could be a possibility that you have to endure this condition because still you have to neutralize a certain aspect of your karma.
However, my own experience shows that once I have learnt the lesson and I am not reacting anymore, there is an additional power that comes from within. I have realized that, even though the condition might be still there persisting, you get unaffected by that condition. I took the example of a lotus remaining in the mud and water, untouched by the mud, untouched by the water.
That is exactly what you will experience when you master a lesson. Remaining in a battlefield, you will be like the Yudhisthira. You will be stable in the battlefield. That is the promise of the masters. So, get your lessons correctly and other things will automatically happen.
Further reading, Secrets of Karma, Page 149