sufferance is because of our karma of previous birth?

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When human beings face turbulence in life it is often said as "it is

because of your karma of previous birth". Please explain?

 

A person did some bad deed (Paapa karma or vikarma). The person went

to hell and was punished there. The punishment reduced the intensity

of quality (Guna or Samskara) which is the cause of that deed. But

the quality is not completely removed and a small trace of it

remains. Punishment cannot remove the quality which is a form of

wrong knowledge. The wrong knowledge can be completely removed only

by right knowledge and not by external physical punishment. Of

course the punishment reduces the intensity of wrong knowledge to a

great extent. A thief can leave his quality of stealing only on

realization obtained by the right knowledge. Any extent of torture

cannot remove this quality completely. Therefore, even when the

thief comes out of the police station, a trace of the quality of

stealing remains. But if he meets a Satguru and receives right

knowledge, the quality can be removed completely. Valmiki, a robber,

became a sage by the preaching of Narada but not by the third degree

treatment in a police station.

 

The samskara or quality is knowledge and can be destroyed by another

type of knowledge only, as a diamond is cut by another diamond.

Except the knowledge, no other physical works like chanting the

name, doing worship, singing songs or any other physical exercise

can remove the wrong knowledge which is the cause of sins. Now what

is this wrong knowledge? Is it not karma? As I told you the

knowledge is also karma because any part of the creation is karma

only. Quality or samskara is a process of feeling or thinking of

awareness which is karma only. But the karma of awareness can be

removed by another karma of awareness only and not by the karma of

matter or inert energy. Beating and burning are the works done by

inert matter and inert energy. They can affect the body and since

the body is connected to mind, it can create fear and reduce the

intensity of the wrong knowledge but cannot remove it from the root.

Only the logical analysis of right knowledge can remove this

samskara or quality from the root. When the quality is removed, it's

corresponding deed also disappears.

 

Therefore the right knowledge removes the cause of the karma and

thus burn the quality and its deed from the root (Jnanagnih Sarva

karmani-the Gita). When the sinner comes to the earth from the hell

he is with the trace of quality. Since the quality is also basically

karma, the trace of quality is called as karma sesha (remains of

karma). This trace of quality grows in a congenial atmosphere into a

big tree and the deed is again repeated. The punishment of this deed

may be in the hell or sometimes may be immediate. Sometimes the

thief may be caught by the house owner on the spot and may be beaten

immediately. Sometimes the thief may be caught in the police station

and may be beaten there. Even if he escapes these two places he will

certainly be beaten in the hell. Therefore the deed of the previous

birth punished in the hell comes down along with the soul as karma

sesha (quality or samskara) which is responsible for the

corresponding deed on this earth and which may yield its fruit here

itself. In such case his previous quality called as previous karma

is certainly responsible for the misery here. Here you have to

understand one point. The karma of the previous birth is not giving

its result directly in this birth. The samskara which was

responsible to the karma of the previous birth continues into this

birth as a trace, which grows in a congenial atmosphere and

generates its corresponding karma once again, which may yield

sometimes its fruit here itself. Thus the karma of the present birth

is only responsible directly for your misery here and the present

karma has its root in the samskara of previous birth. This samskara

can be called as karma and thus in that sense it is said that the

karma of the previous birth is responsible for the present misery.

 

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