on Karma by Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami

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Thanks Steve. That is really powerful and clear.

 

Ardis

 

 

On Dec 29, 2004, at 7:22 AM, Steve Connor wrote:

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> LESSON 262 from Living with Siva

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> How to Face Your Karma

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> If difficult things are happening to you and your mind is disturbed

> because of them and you have mental arguments within you because you

> can't accept your own karma, go to the feet of Lord Siva in your mind,

> go to the feet of Lord Siva in the temple with your physical body, and

> beg for the intelligence to place yourself firmly on the path of

> Sanatana Dharma.

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> Though it is true that we must work through all aspects and phases of

> past actions, there are ways of becoming excused from the punishments

> that drastic actions of the past impose upon the future. These ways

> are grace, sadhana, tapas and atonement through penance and the

> performance of good deeds, thus acquiring merit which registers as a

> new and positive karma, alleviating the heaviness of some of our past

> karma. Through seeking grace and through receiving it by performing

> sadhana and tapas and the doing of penance, the karmas are in

> themselves speeded up. The going through and meeting and reaping of

> rewards as well as displeasures embodied in past karma in the present

> is accelerated through these self-imposed actions. Therefore, the

> sages say, "Bear your karma cheerfully." And as the seeking of Self

> commences, the karma unfolds in all of its hideousness and glory, to

> be seen before the single eye and not reacted to by even a tremor

> within this physical and astral nerve system. The yoga must be that

> strong. Each time you blame another person for what has happened to

> you, or cast blame in any way, tell yourself, "This is my karma which

> I was born to face. I did not come into a physical body just to blame

> others for what happens to me. I was not born to live in a state of

> ignorance created by an inability to face my karma. I came here to

> spiritually unfold, to accept the karmas of this and all my past lives

> and to deal with them and handle them in a proper and a wonderful

> way."

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> Humility is intelligence; arrogance is ignorance. To accept one's

> karma and the responsibility for one's actions is strength. To blame

> another is weakness and foolishness. Let's begin by not advertising

> our ignorance. If you must blame what happens to you on your friend,

> your neighbor, your country, your community or the world, don't

> advertise it by speaking about it. Keep that ignorance to yourself.

> Limit it to the realm of thought. Harness your speech and at the same

> time work to remold your thinking and retrain your subconscious to

> actually accept this basic premise of Saiva Siddhanta.

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