How to get rid of Karma

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Q507. What about past karma and how it is influencing me now?

 

A507. There are three things you can do about past karma. One is to

pay your karmic debts. Most people choose to do that- unconsciously,

of course. Sometimes, there's alot of suffering involved in the

payment of those debts, but the Law of Karma says no debt in the

universe ever goes unpaid. There is a perfect accounting system in

this universe, and everything is a constant ''to and fro'' exchange of

energy. The second thing you can do is to transmute or transform your

karma to a more desirable experience. This is a very interesting

process in which you ask yourself, as you're paying your karmic debt,

''What can I learn from this experience? Why is this happening and

what is the message that the universe is giving to me? How can I make

this experience useful to my fellow human beings?''. This allows you

to transmute your karma into a positive experience. The third way to

deal with karma is to transcend it. To transcend karma is to become

independent of it. The way to transcend karma is to keep experiencing

the gap, the Self, the Spirit. It's like washing a dirty piece of

cloth in a stream of water. Every time you wash it, you take away a

few stains. You keep washing it again and again, and each time it gets

a little cleaner. You wash or transcend the seeds of your karma by

going into the gap and coming out again. This is done through the

practice of meditation.

 

- Deepak Chopra