What is Karma?
Karma is nothing but conditional thinking.
Can you elaborate it?
Let us say you are grown up in a particular religious environment, then your concept of God will be pertaining to the beliefs and the environment in which you have been brought up. A Hindu will think about God as Shiva, Vishnu, Ganapati, Mother Goddess or many other forms in which that person is brought up. In the same way a Christian may think God in terms of Jesus the Christ or Mother Mary; a person brought up in Islam thinks in an other way; like wise each person thinks in a peculiar fashion in which that person is brought up, and that person gets conditioned in this mode of thinking over a period of time and it becomes difficult for that person to come out of this thinking pattern. Hence that person's mind gets conditioned to that kind of thinking. This conditional thinking is not just in the religious matters, but also in all other materialistic matters.
Do you mean to say that, this kind of thinking is not proper?
Not exactly. The thinking pattern in which you think - as long as you are not conditioned by it, then it is ok. If not, then that same thinking pattern becomes your limitation.
I am unable to understand. Can you explain further?
Sure. Let us say there is a wave of the ocean. If the wave thinks that it is completely different from the ocean and gets into a conditional thinking that it is only a wave and not at all a part of the ocean. What will be its status? Miserable. Isn't it? A Wave is having the same characteristics that of the ocean. Only that it is a small part of that vast ocean. So the concept of God of a Hindu, a Christian, or any other is only a part when it is considered and restricted to only one particular aspect of God. However, when you consider that God is Omnipresent and Omniscient, then your conditional thinking about the concept of God will change drastically and you will end up seeing God in everything and everywhere. Now to come to this stage what is that you have done? You have overcome your conditional thinking about God in which you have been brought up.
And, when you come to a stage that you are not even the doer of anything and everything is just happening all by itself, then you will come to a stage called surrender. Then you will understand that there is no karma. Everything, and every happening is just happening and it is there just like that. Even your body is also just a happening in the cosmic drama.
Do you mean to say I can overcome my karma or change my karma by just changing my thinking pattern or my thoughts?
Yes, as simple as that. And, more than that is: when you do not think, then there is no karma.
Actually, it is not the thinking pattern or thoughts that build your karma, it is the attachment towards your thoughts or the identification that you create with your thoughts build your karma.
Karma is nothing but conditional thinking.
Can you elaborate it?
Let us say you are grown up in a particular religious environment, then your concept of God will be pertaining to the beliefs and the environment in which you have been brought up. A Hindu will think about God as Shiva, Vishnu, Ganapati, Mother Goddess or many other forms in which that person is brought up. In the same way a Christian may think God in terms of Jesus the Christ or Mother Mary; a person brought up in Islam thinks in an other way; like wise each person thinks in a peculiar fashion in which that person is brought up, and that person gets conditioned in this mode of thinking over a period of time and it becomes difficult for that person to come out of this thinking pattern. Hence that person's mind gets conditioned to that kind of thinking. This conditional thinking is not just in the religious matters, but also in all other materialistic matters.
Do you mean to say that, this kind of thinking is not proper?
Not exactly. The thinking pattern in which you think - as long as you are not conditioned by it, then it is ok. If not, then that same thinking pattern becomes your limitation.
I am unable to understand. Can you explain further?
Sure. Let us say there is a wave of the ocean. If the wave thinks that it is completely different from the ocean and gets into a conditional thinking that it is only a wave and not at all a part of the ocean. What will be its status? Miserable. Isn't it? A Wave is having the same characteristics that of the ocean. Only that it is a small part of that vast ocean. So the concept of God of a Hindu, a Christian, or any other is only a part when it is considered and restricted to only one particular aspect of God. However, when you consider that God is Omnipresent and Omniscient, then your conditional thinking about the concept of God will change drastically and you will end up seeing God in everything and everywhere. Now to come to this stage what is that you have done? You have overcome your conditional thinking about God in which you have been brought up.
And, when you come to a stage that you are not even the doer of anything and everything is just happening all by itself, then you will come to a stage called surrender. Then you will understand that there is no karma. Everything, and every happening is just happening and it is there just like that. Even your body is also just a happening in the cosmic drama.
Do you mean to say I can overcome my karma or change my karma by just changing my thinking pattern or my thoughts?
Yes, as simple as that. And, more than that is: when you do not think, then there is no karma.
Actually, it is not the thinking pattern or thoughts that build your karma, it is the attachment towards your thoughts or the identification that you create with your thoughts build your karma.
