Karma and redemption, Self-Realization

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There is another way to look at karma besides

reward and punishment. Karmic consequences that are seen

as punishment can also be seen as events that are

there to teach you lessons about inappropriate

behaviour. You learn about inappropriate behaviour by

experiencing the effect of that behaviour that you directed

against others. Karmic consequences viewed as reward can

also be seen as events that are forthcoming to

encourage the spiritual journey and smooth the road

travelled. Spiritual seekers are well aware of fortuitous

events that are signals that they are on the right path.

Viewing both of these kinds of karmic events in this way

results in little or no new karma being

generated.<br><br>A person’s soul operates to always turn the person

to God just as a flower always turns toward the sun.

But a person can be distracted from that journey by

the ego and the senses that together provide a false

sense of a world of separate objects and a false means

of achieving happiness through acquiring some

objects and avoiding others to satisfy a false and

emotionally-based sense of who you are.<br><br>There are other ways

to mitigate the karmic potential that you have

accumulated. Sadhana, purity of intent and a willingness to

come to God will neutralize impending karma. If karma

is seen as lessons to be learned and efforts to

encourage one in their spiritual development, then if one

is spiritually developed, there is no need for those

lessons or for the encouragement. The karma becomes

unnecessary and while it will still come to fruition to

satisfy the four laws previously mentioned, it is greatly

diluted. For example, karma that is to result in a car

accident, may, through sadhana and a burning desire to come

to God, be neutralized into occurring in a dream.

<br><br>Through contined sadhana and spiritual development, karma

can be buned off completely. The fully-Realized

person can operate beyond the reach of the four laws

that govern the phenomenal universe. Karma can be

destroyed through exerting divine will to command the

elements and nature. Negative or evil forces operating

against you can be neutralized. Unfavourable

circumstances can be changed into the best possible

circumstances. Destiny can be changed by the person who strives

toward Self-Realization because of access gained to the

knowledge and powers of the chakras.<br><br>Moreover, there

are ways to prevent karma from being accumulated in

the first place. To move beyond the reaches of karma,

one must transcend the consciousness that gives rise

to the thoughts, emotions and actions that bring

karmic consequences. <br><br>One must go beyond the ego

stage wherein the individual has the illusion that they

are the doer of actions. One must become aware of

their divine identity. <br><br>One must go beyond the

evidence of the senses that produces the delusion that

there are separate objects in the universe upon which

one can act. One must acces the intuitive knowledge

of the chakras to come to unequivocal state where

all is indeed one.<br><br>One must go beyond the lock

step grip of reason and develop other, more profound,

ways of acquiring knowledge. <br><br>It is through

meditation that these leaps are made and one moves beyond

time, space and all other limits. <br><br>When all this

has been done, one experiences the grace of God and

the truth of the Absolute and cosmic consciousness.

Here, in this state of Grace, one performs actions with

no personal motive. No new karma is accrued and

existing karma is either burned off or comes to fruition

and is gone. When all karma is dissolved, one can

leave the wheel of birth and death and merge into

Brahman.<br><br>That final merging into Brahman is Yoga.