| Deeper Preparation for Effectively Using Secret Sounds, Part I |
Some people think: It is my bad karma that how no matter hard I work I can’t make good money. People less educated and less talented end up getting everything in life. Ugly people get beautiful spouses. Is there a magic to undo my bad karma? |
| Baba Sri Siva Speaks: |
| "Blessings. Before you learn and work effectively with secret sacred sounds that will dissolve your bad karma, it is necessary to understand what karma is. What is karma? |
| Consider this example: Someone is the president of a country; someone else lives as a homeless person in the same country. Why is there this inequality? How come some get everything so easily and others have to work hard and still get nothing and suffer? The answer is: it’s all the individual’s karma. Karma is the only theory that can explain the mysteries of life - the mystery of joy and suffering, health and disease, success and failure, long life and premature death and other dichotomies. |
| Simply put, karma is your past life: the desires and plans that you held in your previous life. These are now presenting themselves in this life. They may not necessarily be from your most immediate past life. They may be from other lives that you have lived long ago. |
| In fact, what you call the present or the future is indeed your past. Everything that you wanted to do in the past, you are now doing in the present. These things may end now, or they may not end now. Maybe it will take a few more births to end them. This is the philosophy of karma: you desire something and create karma and a lifetime (or lifetimes) to experience it. |
| In short, karma is your destiny. An orange seed has a destiny to grow into an orange tree. An apple seed grows into an apple tree. Just as a plant has a destiny so does every human being. Destiny is destination. You start out at a point and then move forward. Finally, you stop moving forward, and the momentum ends. |
| Growth itself is a mystery. Very few people have contemplated about growth. Growth itself is a process of decay! A child is growing, but at the same time it is decaying! The child is growing towards old age and death. |
| Contemplating these matter is what caused the Buddha to challenge life. The Buddha said, ‘I am a prince, but what good is it if I am going to decay?’ And in his escapades out of the palace, he went out and confronted people who were suffering from illness. He discovered that the skin shrinks and a once beautiful face becomes ugly. Others become crippled and disabled. He demanded: ‘What good is this life? I must find out the meaning for this life.’ |
| I don’t want to be too philosophical with you. There is an expression, ‘Philosophy never bakes bread’ which is to say philosophy is not practical. So, what is karma again? Karma is the force which causes you to reincarnate. Birth after birth, you come into being because there is this cyclical karmic force which creates life to experience those desires which were expressed. And for some, a time comes when you don’t want to come back at all, because you are tired of coming back and you want to return to Being. Then karma ends. |
| So karma is not just a metaphysical philosophy. It is real. Whatever you think becomes a reality in the invisible space-time complex of your soul and then this manifests in life after an appropriate lapse of time. |
| The Buddhists say that you cannot end karma until you become totally empty. When you are empty, there will be no more movement; there will be no more desire. And when there is no more desire, there is no possibility for life. Every one of you has come here to act out something in life. You came here to become the president of the country or to be a homeless person. You came here to marry someone or to divorce someone else. You came here to experience success or incredible prosperity. Or, you came here to go through poverty and slavery. |
| Why do you do what you do? I can understand people coming to live a prosperous life, but who wants poverty? It is a learning process. On the earth plane you learn everything through trial and error. That is the structure of human knowledge. You constantly go on making mistakes. Why are you not able to make a perfect computer? Every year companies are making an imperfect computer knowingly, because there is no way they can make a perfect computer. Same thing applies to life. You experiment with this man or woman, with this job or another, and then move on to get a new better partner or vocation. |
| I often talk about an interesting anecdote as some people find it easier to understand things through stories. One day I was watching a Disney movie for kids. The Disney movie was narrating the history of the invention of the bicycle. The movie explained when the bicycle was first invented in France, not very many people could afford it. Only aristocrats could afford it, and they would only use it on special occasions. For example, when an aristocrat had a date, the aristocrat would ride a bicycle so as to impress the woman he was courting. It was a status symbol. |
| And the funny thing about the bicycle was that the original bicycle did not have a brake. The man who invented it did not see the necessity for a brake. So he said, ‘What you do when you want to stop riding is you dash against a tree and hold onto the tree.’ Then the people who tried this method of course crashed and thought it was really stupid to stop a bicycle that way. They decided we have to somehow stop this bicycle from moving in an easier way. So, they invented the brake for the bicycle. |
| We are continuing in the same line of development today. We now have cellular phones that we can take anywhere, even to the bathroom! We have phones in the airplanes that we can use. And at some point we are going to realize it is better to psychically communicate. Then we don’t need a phone. And what will transmit our voice is space. We are going to do it sometime. We will decide to do things in an easier way. Why not do that right now, make that inner decision? ‘God, I want everything in an easier way. I am asking for things to be easier right now. Open my mind to new ideas and new ways of doing things.’ |
| In the long ago past, people in Atlantis were doing that, using psychic communication. But in this age, at the current rate of development, it is going to take time, because the model that our current science has is limited. It’s very, very limited. However, the people on this planet could make a collective decision to do things in an easier way. |
| Now, all these various limitations were challenged many, many thousands of years ago by the yogis in ancient India. They said all of these things, including the phenomenal world, are only a fabrication of your mind. What exists is your own mind. |
| If you have no mind, then nothing will be out there in the world. Everything is created by the mind, including a physical object like this. You have to have a mind which can hold this object as a thought in your brain. If that is not taking place, then the object cannot be a reality for you. |
| That is why when you are sleeping, nothing exists. When you are sleeping, you are not dead. The mind is dead. The mind is not there. So when the mind is not there, then everything disappears. When the mind comes back, everything comes into existence. |
| So the mind creates. Nothing creates, but the mind creates. We have to understand the human mind. It creates through thoughts, through understanding. Karma is also created through the mind. The mind creates psychic impressions that stay somehow in the cosmos, and then these impressions cause a person to reincarnate. |
| So we have to become very, very responsible in handling our mind, because whatever we think is going to become a reality. As I said in the beginning, our life as it is now is a result of our own thoughts in our past lives. We have to become very, very careful about what we think, because what we think is going to manifest as reality. |
| I will give you a practical example. Norman Cousins was an old acquaintance of mine. He wanted me to come and work with him in UCLA on the project of psycho-neuroimmunology. What this high-sounding word means is that your thoughts become your biology. He had a number of projects in this country and also in Europe to discover how thoughts get translated into biological reality. |
| The major experiment he conducted was on cancer patients with at least 500 people in each experimental group. This experiment was repeated in Europe and also in this country. These cancer patients were tested for a placebo effect - he wanted to see how powerfully people translate a certain idea that is given to them. |
| All these cancer patients were told that they are going to receive chemotherapy and, as a result, that they would all lose hair. However, the doctors didn’t administer chemotherapy, but instead a placebo was given. 35 percent of the people lost hair anyhow. |
| Just by giving them this idea that they are going to lose hair, people generated fears that were translated into biological reality. |
| This led Cousins to make very serious objections toward preventative medicine. We are giving some information to people to prevent certain things from happening, but it may produce a counter effect. An innocent woman who doesn’t know about breast cancer is told to examine her breasts periodically- who knows what is going to happen? Somebody is going to realize that fear in a physical form. |
| That’s why it is very, very important to be positive. We should have only positive thoughts. If there are negative thoughts, we do not know what danger they may inflict upon us in this life and in the life to come, because the thought process is what creates karma. |
| Now I am going to confine my current discussion to one area of karma, the karma which cannot be changed easily. You have certain givens in this life. For instance, I have brown skin. If I want to turn it into white skin, it’s not going to happen. |
| I might bleach myself and invite more problems. I have selected certain situations in my life which are very, very difficult to change. That’s why people come to me saying that they have wanted to change their life ten years ago, but day after day they wake up to the same reality. They have not been able to make changes in a significant way. |
| Why? It is because of the givens which have become solid matter. It is very difficult to change solid matter. Everything starts out as energy and becomes matter and when it has become a material reality, the changes are very, very difficult to make. |
| I’m not saying that it is impossible: you can change these things. But we have to operate with the fact that matter is a fact. |
| Matter is a fact. There is an area which is resistant to change because of its physicality. |
| In Sanskrit they call it the most difficult karma to change, prarabdha. Prarabdha is that which is going to be experienced by you no matter what you do. |
| That is why when self-help people tell me that you create your own reality, I tell them this is only true in a limited sense. There have been many self-help books and how many people have been able to turn around their life? They have been reading hundreds and hundreds of books on self-help which all say you create your own reality and the universe is the limit. You are a totally unlimited being. |
| How many of you have dramatically changed your life? What is the percentage of people who have been able to change their life? One percent? Two percent?…. 98% fail. This is what people have to look at. How many of us have been able to change our life although we all wanted to change our life not now, but five years ago? |
| But for most people, that has not happened yet. Day by day we wake up in the same old reality. We get frustrated. Even people who write books saying that you can do everything, they get frustrated too. Although they may not acknowledge it. |
| So there is a reality that is very difficult to change, ‘prarabdha’. These are the givens. And we created it. And that is what we need to diffuse. The diffusion cannot be done by the mind. That’s the most important thing that we have to understand. |
| Mentally you can go on making affirmations, writing affirmations, making promises that “I won’t repeat this, I will change this, I won’t repeat this behavior”. But then you will find that you are in the same cloud, in the same place, in the same situation. |
| Why is that? Because of karma. Karma is the spell. Everyone is under a spell. In Sanskrit they have a word called ‘samskara’ which means innate qualities or certain proclivities with which you are born. That is the karma from a previous birth. |
| Someone has come with a mindset that he has taken birth to do certain things. No matter what you do to change him, he is not going to change. This holds true for everyone. Everyone of us is under a spell. We are unconscious. We are unconsciously led to the process of staying with a certain mindset because it is very, very difficult to be alert. |
| It is easy to be a robot. That is how we live life. We are not conscious at all. The Buddha said that you consider yourself to be in a waking state, but you are not. You are under a spell as if you are drugged. You follow the same path. You are incapable of making changes. The mind thinks, ‘I want to change my life. I want to change my car. I want to change my apartment. I want to change my job. I want to manifest a good relationship.’ |
| You want it on a mental level, but then it is not happening. Why? Because of the spell. Because of the robot mind. The influence of karma forces you to carry on with the misery. You must ponder this very soberly. I will continue this discussion next week. |
| Go on re-reading this newsletter during the week. Re-read the other newsletters again. Each time your understanding will grow. Practice the suggestions in them. Be sincere. Share this material with others who may be interested. Positive planetary change can be accelerated by your decisions and the decisions of others. Take this very deeply to heart. |
| I have discussed elsewhere that your money karma is carried out in life through the planets. I recommend that you find out which planets are directly involved in creating financial hardships for you and do some remedies to change those bad influences." |
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