Karma's Theory with Osha Morrison. From: Real Perspectives with LeTonyaMoore show. by REAL PERSPECTIVES RADIO. The Urban Dictionary Mug. One side has the word. The basic theory is: 'cause and affect'. The laws (Dharma) decide what affect is beget from a given cause. · Frequently asked questions on Theory of Karma. If you have any further questions, kindly post it in the Ask Agniveer section of the site. The Dark Prophecy: Pre-Order Now; 50% Off SparkNotes Study Guides; Shop the Mother's Day Gift Guide; Membership Gift Cards Stores & Events Help. ![]() Karma's Theory's profile including the latest music, albums, songs, music videos and more updates. · The theory of karma harps on the Newtonian principle that every action produces an equal and opposite reaction. Every time we think or do something. Karma as action philosophy and value theory: if we sow goodness. Thus, karma in Hinduism may mean an activity, an action or a materialistic activity. Get $5 Off Every $50 You Spend with code BOOKSMART; Shop the Father's Day Gift Guide; Graduation Gifts for All Ages; Summer Reading for All Ages. Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Karma (car- ma) is a word meaning the result of a person'sactions as well as the actions themselves. It is a term about the cycle of cause and effect. According to the theory of Karma, what happens to a person, happens because they caused it with their actions. It is an important part of many religions such as Hinduism and Buddhism. The theory of karma can be thought to be an extension to Newton's third law of action and reaction where every action of any kind including words, thoughts feelings, the totality of our existence, will eventually have a reaction, same type of energy coming back to the one that caused it. It implies that absolutely nothing exists, which does not comply with the law of cause and effect. On the scale of the Universe it would imply absolute determinism of all actions, feelings, thoughts and developments for the past and for the future making both calculable, if the current state of the Universe would be known fully. In terms of spiritual development, Karma is about all that a person has done, is doing and will do. Karma is not about punishment or reward. It makes a person responsible for their own life, and how they treat other people. The "Theory of Karma" is a major belief in Hinduism, Ayyavazhi, Sikhism, Buddhism, and Jainism. All living creatures are responsible for their karma - their actions and the effects of their actions. Karma as action and reaction: if we show goodness, we will reap goodness. Karma is the universal principle of cause and effect. Our actions, both good and bad, come back to us in the future, helping us to learn from life’s lessons and become better people. In religions that include reincarnation, karma extends through one's present life and all past and future lives as well. Karma is basically energy. One person throws out energy through thoughts, words and actions, and it comes back, in time, through other people. Karma is the best teacher, forcing people to face the consequences of their actions and thus improve and refine their behavior, or suffer if they do not. Even harsh karma, when faced in wisdom, can be the greatest spark for spiritual growth. The conquest of karma lies in intelligentaction and unemotionalresponse. The process of action and reaction on all levels—physical, mental and spiritual—is karma. One must pay attention to thoughts, because thought can make karmas—good, bad and mixed.[1]“I say kind words to you, and you feel peaceful and happy. I say harsh words to you, and you become ruffled and upset. The kindness and the harshness will return to me, through others, at a later time. ![]() Finally, what I give is what I get back.”“An architect thinks creative, productive thoughts while drawing plans for a new building. But were he to think destructive, unproductive thoughts, he would soon not be able to accomplish any kind of positive task even if he desired to do so.”Hindus look at time as a circle, as things cycle around again. Karma is a very just law which, like gravity, treats everyone the same. The law of karma puts man at the center of responsibility for everything he does and everything that is done to him. Understanding the way karma works, Hindus try to live a virtuous life. ![]() This is called dharma. There are three types of karma in Hinduism: sanchita karma, the sum total of past karmas yet to be resolved; prarabdha karma, that portion of sanchita karma that is to be experienced in this life; andkriyamana karma, the karma that humans are currently creating, which will bear fruit in future. Karma is considered one of the natural laws of the mind, just as gravity is a law of matter. Just as God created gravity to bring order to the physical world, He created karma as a divine system of justice that is self- governing and infinitely fair. It automatically creates the appropriate future experience in response to the current action. Several different views exist in Hinduism regarding the role of divine beings. In Hinduism, many see the deities or devas as playing some kind of role. Other Hindus, such as the Mimamsakas, reject such notions and see karma as acting independently, considering the natural laws of causation sufficient to explain the effects of karma.[2][3][4]Some interpretations of the Bhagavad Gita[5] suggest an intermediate view, that karma is a law of cause and effect yet God can mitigate karma for His devotees. It is said in Bhagavad Gita that only the karma that is done with a sense of doership and with attachment to the karma could cause good or bad reactions. Karma that is done with an attitude of duty and without attachment to the results will not create any effect and will move one closer to God. Another view holds that a Satguru, acting on God's behalf, can mitigate or work out some of the karma of the disciple.[6][7][8]↑Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami, "Ten Questions people ask About Hinduism …and ten terrific answers!" (p. Pratima Bowes, The Hindu Religious Tradition 5. Allied Pub. 1. 97. ISBN 0. 71. 00. 86. Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, Vol. II, at 2. 17- 2. 25 (1. ISBN 8. 1- 8. 53. Alex Michaels, Hinduism: Past and Present 1. Princeton 1. 99. 8) ISBN 0- 6. Verses 4: 1. 4, 9. Yogananda, Paramahansa, Autobiography of a Yogi, Chapter 2. ISBN 1- 5. 65. 89- 2. Swami Krishnananda on the Guru mitigating the karma of the disciple↑Swami B. V. Tripurari on grace of the Guru destroying karma. FAQ on Theory of Karma in Hinduism. Frequently asked questions on Theory of Karma. If you have any further questions, kindly post it in the Ask Agniveer section of the site. Question: What is Theory of Karma? Answer: Put simply, theory of Karma states that. Your thoughts become reality. Inversely, your present reality is nothing but a cumulative manifestation of whatever thoughts you decided to think of till date. These include both the conscious and unconscious thoughts. The purpose of this reality is to help you rise above sorrow and achieve bliss. And you can change your reality to higher bliss by changing your thoughts. Thus, life is not an unplanned random chemical reaction. Instead, life and world around is a well- planned system built to guide you towards bliss. And the way to use this system effectively is through directing the thoughts towards achievement of bliss. Question: Does it mean happiness alone is goal of life? Answer: Exactly. The only goal of life is to achieve happiness or bliss. And the way to achieve it is through proper understanding of the mechanism of the life system and directing our thoughts towards most optimal use of this system. Question: What about those people who sacrifice their own happiness for sake of others? Answer: They do not sacrifice their happiness, they merely sacrifice their short- term conveniences in pursuit of higher levels of happiness. The satisfaction derived from selflessness is way above the happiness derived from mundane activities. You can compare it with our own lives. As children, we enjoy many activities like eating soil. But as we grow up, we seek higher levels of pleasure and will never be eager to exchange these pleasures with many of the childish pleasures. As you will realize, the way the world has been designed, we are all closely interdependent like various molecules of water in a pond. We cannot maximize our individual happiness without maximizing the happiness of the world. So smart people trade- off their short- term conveniences for significantly higher levels of happiness derived from thinking about and acting for betterment of the world. Question: Are thoughts everything? What about actions? Answer: Thoughts are not everything. But they are the only starting point we have in our control. Everything else including our actions are next steps of the process that starts with each thought. All we do and achieve starts with a thought in the mind. Even the thought of ‘empty thinking without action’ is a thought we decide to accept that leads us to the resulting consequences as per Theory of Karma. And decision to act is also a thought we decide to accept. And as we would realize, thoughts that do not culminate into actions, in general, lead us away from bliss. In complete framework, three aspects of this thought should go hand in hand – Knowledge, Actions and Contemplation. A thought system that encompasses all the three is necessary. Question: How do we decide what thoughts will lead to happiness and what thoughts will not? Answer: There are various ways to decide it. But the fundamental principle is that. Truth=Bliss. Consider two forces to be operating in our lives: Knowledge and Ignorance. Knowledge leads us to truth and Ignorance away from truth. And they are controlled by our most fundamental thought – the Will or Sankalpa in Sanskrit. This Sankalpa or Will leads to further thoughts which result in consequent actions and these result in the reality we face. If we direct our Will to pursuit of Truth, we will move closer to Bliss. And away from Bliss otherwise. The rest of the ways are merely expansions of this basic principle, Truth = Bliss. Question: How do we decide what is truth? Answer: There are various ways. Basically its an evolutionary approach. Decision of truth demands exclusion of all sorts of blind beliefs and an openness to change the stand as and when we get new information and facts. The essential component is again, a Will or Sankalpa to accept the truth. The various methods include: a. Process of elimination. Like a smart CAT or GMAT aspirant, one should immediately reject those choices which are obviously false, based on reasoning and fact. For example, when we know that earth is round, all theories based on hypothesis of earth being flat, including so- called religious books should immediately be rejected. Testing for internal contradictions in an hypothesis. For example, a theory says that God is just. And then it says that He shall put more women in Hell. Now both these statements contradict each other. Hence they are worth immediate rejection. Internal analysis and reasoning. Verification of factsetc. This is a science in itself requiring detailed analysis and contemplation. But the only prerequisite to understand it is a Will seeking truth. Question: How does Theory of Karma works? Answer: It works instantaneously. Each thought in the mind produces a a certain pattern of neuron firing in the mind. Based on this, various physiological changes start taking place including change in hormonal levels, heart- rate etc. Further, even the neurological patterns start adapting to this thought. Thus, if you think of same thing again and again, the neurons create a pattern that next time it is easier to take that thought process ahead. That is why we see people getting into good or bad habits. These thoughts define one’s thinking patterns, and hence his or her personality, health and actions. Thus, each thought influences who we are. And by changing this thought, we can decide who we would be. Further, the same process is happening among all humans. And when we interact with them, based on our thought patterns we produce a myriad of social patterns and behaviors, which further influence who we are. Not only humans and society, this influence is also extended to nature in general because we are designed to exchange matter and energy continuously with nature. Thus we would see that merely by will- power, at times, unbelievable miracles happen in medical science. Thus thoughts become our destiny. We, the souls, are different from our body and mind. And when we die, the body and mind (brain) stop having sustainable exchange of matter and energy with nature, and hence the system decays to death. But the soul, who was controlling this system, is unaffected. Now it gets into another emerging system (mind- body) and starts its journey again. Because memories are part of brain cells, they get destroyed in this migration process. But the soul carries a vital body with it which carries the Sanskaars (traits) with it. God ensures that the new system provided is the best fit for uninterrupted journey ahead for the soul. Now, based on traits, the soul develops its personality again. It also continues interaction with the world outside in the same manner as it was doing earlier and continues to evolve itself. At each moment, God ensures that situation we face in the world is best suited for our pursuit of ultimate bliss. This is a continuous optimization process. If we exercise our will to do stupid things, stupid situations emerge and we start a descending to unhappiness. If we exercise our will to do things in pursuit of truth, we ascend. This process is uninterrupted by death. Question: What about animals and lower species? How can they exercise their will? Answer: Broadly speaking, only humans have the potential to exercise their will. Other species can only accept what happens to them and cannot exercise their will? When a soul descends too low that it no more exercises its will as a human, then it gets birth as animals where these tendencies that it had collected can be purged out. Same is case with those born insane or terminally ill. Please note that it is a multi- dimensional world. So depending upon the thought patterns in these various dimensions and aspects of life, the potential combinations are virtually infinite. It is not a discrete system but completely continuous. Thus conditions vary for birth of each soul – in different species, conditions, health, society etc. Question: What about accidents and events on which we have no control through our thoughts? Answer: Critically analyzing, on most of these events we have a control through our collective intelligence. Thus, collectively we all are responsible for terrorism and environmental damage. And we all can do something about it even individually. We can never absolve ourselves of any responsibility on pretext of we being one single individual, as per Theory of Karma. The birth we got on this earth was best suited to our future growth (as bliss seekers) given our traits and tendencies so far. These include our exercise of will in social aspects as well. So the events we face are also consequence of our actions. There are certain events we face without any apparent control of ours. They result out of our past actions. In any case, none of the events hamper our eligibility to seek further happiness ever. At best, there may be a temporary delay, based on theory of Karma. And even this delay can be used to further elevate ourselves on certain other aspects that we may have missed so far. Remember, its a multi- dimensional world with variety of aspects to look into. Question: Why do we not remember our past lives? Answer: Because in general, they are unnecessary to fulfill our goals. Remember that this is a completely optimized process with no scope for redundancies. If we remember our past lives, we would not be able to look ahead. Thus, most of the events of even this birth are not remembered by us, forget about past life. Its a natural law that only what is relevant is remembered. And when people try to break this law by living in past, they get into a variety of mental problems because of indulgence in an unnatural act. The maximum pleasure we derive in life is by living in present and directing our efforts to future.
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