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Om Namah Sivaya

 

Dear Sivananda,

 

”Q:How is karma defined ?

A:Karma is defined by a action (good or bad).”

 

 

According to Rishi Tirumular Jivas inwardly share

Siva’s eternal perfections of Satchidananda and

Parasivam, but each individual jiva, being temporally

created as a divine soul-body that evolves from

immaturity to maturity, from divine ignorance to

divine sapience, is slowly gaining and maturing the

faculties to realize its IDENTITY WITH SIVA’S

PERFECTIONS. This evolution is effected through Siva’s

purposeful imposing of veils – Anava (individualizing

ignorance), Maya (subtle and material from), and

Karma.

 

The Jiva, who cannot mature into divine fulfilment

without the impetuses of the triple malam, just as a

baby cannot mature into a great and productive

adulthood without the appropriate and necessary

experiences. This body, the senses, the phenomenal

world, and the power of sense enjoyment are created

for the jiva, so that he may by experience learn how

PAINFUL it is to be tainted by the triple impurities,

and recurring birth and death, and so be liberated to

MERGE in Siva.

 

Karma is the law of cause and effect, action and

reaction governing maya. Anava is the individuating

veil of duality, source of ignorance and finitude.

Maya is the classroom, Karma the teacher, and anava

the student's ignorance. In the highest sense, there

is no good or bad karma. It is a neutral principle

that governs energy and motion of thought, word and

deed. All experience offers opportunities for

spiritual growth. Selfless acts yield positive,

uplifting conditions. Selfish acts yield conditions of

negativity and confusion. Performing daily sadhana,

keeping good company, pilgrimaging to holy places,

seeing to others' needs--these evoke the higher

energies, direct the mind to useful thoughts and avoid

the creation of troublesome new karmas.

 

a Saivite's great mark, three stripes of white vibhuti

on the brow. This holy ash signifies purity and the

burning away of anava, karma and maya by the fire

kundalini.

 

The Tirumantiram explains, " When the soul attains

Self-knowledge (Jnana), then it becomes one with Siva.

The malas perish, birth's cycle ends and the lustrous

light of wisdom dawns.”

 

Sri Ramakrishnaya Namah

 

 

 

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