Commentaries by Vee Jay Attri during the Book Study – Secrets of Karma
Welcome to the evening session for study and Great Invocation. Namaste! How are you all doing today? All is well? Yes! Preparing yourself wonderfully for the weekend. Alright, today, the target is to complete the Secrets of Karma study.
I will not take up any questions but just will address one issue someone had mentioned. Of course. I am not going to state the issue but I will like to narrate a story related to this.
Once upon a time there was a king. He wanted to have a son. For a long period of time, nothing happened. So, the king consulted with many people and finally, they happened to contact a tantric, a black magician.
He told the king, “If you can get a boy for sacrifice, we can possibly help you to have a son.” So, the king announced that anyone willing to offer their son for sacrifice will be rewarded. So, there was a family with many children, a poor family.
So, the parents thought, one of the boys who was otherwise, not contributing much to the family and useless, he was like an idiot. So, the family thought, “What is the purpose of this boy existing in our family? Better we offer him for the sacrifice and the king in turn will give us much wealth with which we can sustain our life and sustain the other members of the family.”
So, the son was offered to the king. The day for sacrifice had been finalized. So, before the sacrifice, the black magician asked the boy whether he has any last wish. The boy said immediately, “Please get me a portion of clay!”
So, clay was brought. So, with the clay, he made, four small ball, you know like ball, and then, after he made them, he destroyed one clay, second one, third one and then, left the fourth one. The tantric was quite confused. He was worried what the boy is trying to do, because it appeared to be very, very weird that he destroyed the three small balls that he prepared and left one.
So, Even the king was really concerned, “what this boy is trying to do?” Then, he asked the boy, “Please tell me what exactly are you trying to do? What is the purpose of making them and destroying them?”
So, the boy replied, “The first one that I destroyed is for my parents, who were supposed to protect me but they failed to protect me. The second one is for my relatives, who were supposed to guide my parents properly but they did not do it, they failed to do it. The third one, O King, it is for you. You, as a king, is expected to protect your citizens but you also, failed and therefore, I destroyed the third one. The fourth one, I made it for God and I surrender to God and I know that he will protect me.”
The king was really very amazed and for a moment he thought, “Even after I sacrifice this boy, there is no guarantee that I will have a son. And this boy seems to be very, very matured. What is the point in sacrificing him, a matured person, in the expectation of having a son and we do not know whether it will happen or even if it happens, we do not know whether that son will be as mentally sharp as this boy?” So, the king adopted the boy as his son and made him the prince.
The moral of the story is, two things really matter in life. One is the prarabdha karma that you bring in any lifetime, the fructified karma as we call it. Karma that is ready to ripe. Number two is the faith in God. And most importantly, the third point could be that, when your life is governed by righteousness, never ever lose hope, till the end. You never know when the turning point will happen.
As I keep telling people who get exhausted, get tired, it is like breaking a rock. You keep hitting the rock, hit, hit, hit! Even a day may pass, nothing really happens and suddenly, one last blow and the rock splits into two. That means all the blows that the rock received has not gone waste.
Same thing is with our efforts. All the efforts that you have been consistently making in your life is bound to yield results. That is why, it is always said, “No good action done with the purest of the motive goes unrewarded.” It never happens.
You shall be rewarded for all the hard efforts. You shall be rewarded for all the qualities that you possess. Nobody can take it away from you. It is just a question of the divine time. And also, remember, in every situation, there is only goodness.
“Sab chise mein kalyan hi, kalyan hi bhara hua hai.” In everything, there is only goodness. Everything is filled with goodness. So, I hope the story was interesting to you. You can connect it with your life in whichever way you like.
Let us proceed for the study from The Secrets of Karma.
Choose any spiritual path that blends with your nature and practise diligently. Do whatever is in front of you with absolute commitment and courage, fulfilling all your karmic obligations. Be grateful for everything in your life and cultivate happiness.
Cultivating happiness is the most important ingredient. Once you learn to cultivate happiness, together with that, many other virtues will be connected. So, you will become hopeful, you will have more faith, you will become cheerful, you will become fearless. So, every thought as we mentioned some time back, needs to be happy, healthy and holy.
If you are able to monitor your thought on these three parameters, whether the thought is happy, is it a healthy thought, is it a holy thought? Holy thought is not only about spirituality. Holy thought is benevolent thought. If you are able to check the quality of your thoughts, you don’t have to worry about anything in your life, the rest will be taken care of.
Have unshakable faith in the goodness of Divine order and surrender to God.
Surrender to God happens after you have done whatever you can to the best of your ability, as in the case of the story that I narrated. The boy had no other option other than surrendering to God because the situation is beyond his control. So, when the situation is beyond your control, that is exactly what you need to do. “Doing the best, leaving the rest,” meaning surrendering to the divine will.
Work on your karma thoroughly by learning your lessons properly and by paying your karmic debts cheerfully, with awareness. When you pay all your dues, there will be nothing left to make you suffer.
The last paragraph is the blessings!
May you be blessed with divine wisdom, divine love, divine power to complete your journey in the Earth school, with peace and joy. May you manifest your greatness. So be it.
Let’s do the inner reflection for this particular topic.
Inner reflection – Path to Freedom
1. I will let go when it is necessary and pay my karmic debts cheerfully, with awareness.
2. I refuse to react and will take a moment to reflect on the cause and purpose of any situation.
That means, before you say something or do anything, you will take a pause. This is what we call gap. That gap is very, very critical. If you practice this, you can prevent from making any major blunders and also you can definitely improve the quality of your life.
Blunder in the sense that sometimes, people do not realise that when you take a decision in haste and you take that decision when you are emotionally not in a good condition, those decisions tend to be mostly wrong and sometimes, it can be disastrous.
And that is the reason why a gap or a pause before you react is very, very essential. I refuse to react and I will take a moment to reflect on the cause and purpose of any situation.
That means we are going deeper into why this problem is existing in the first place. Does this carry a lesson? Does it carry a purpose? Reflect on that.
3. I will be cheerful for my own sake and the sake of the people of the world.
Cheerfulness is one of the most important traits, together with fearlessness.
4. I will honor my Dharma by fulfilling my duties with devotion and love.
Dharma is your duty or obligations.
5. I will do for the sake of doing good and will serve selflessly, with pure intention. I will refrain from manipulating others for my own benefit.
6. I will obey the laws of nature. I will cultivate humility and I will plan ahead of this lifetime to create a strong foundation of good karma.
7. I will complete my journey in the Earth school with peace and joy. I will manifest my greatness.
So, friends, that’s about the Secrets of Karma. Some of you had read the book. I sincerely hope it served to be a good reminder. We have to keep discovering many levels of truth hidden in the teachings of the great masters. So, this is very very important.
Further reading, Secrets of Karma, Page 152-153