![]() So the next time you feel good about yourself, speak kindly, observe moments of self-judgement, give yourself another chance: that’s a karmic boost. Karma doesn’t hand out rewards or punishments, it’s an energetic exchange that is created, powered, and contained by the Self. It’s important to understand the root meaning of familiar Eastern principles like karma, so that we don’t perpetuate an unfounded belief system that victimizes our psyche and our souls. ![]() If your friend walks around saying “I’m doomed,” she is not simply condemning herself, she is repeating a familiar, negative thought pattern that can wreak havoc on her present and future decisions. It is so easy to confuse karma as “I cut someone off in traffic two years ago, so that’s why this bad thing is now occurring,” when it’s really “my thoughts, feelings, and words fuel my actions, thus feeding the karmic cycle of life.” If karma is action, and the yogic path relies on karma, then our yoga is an active work in progress a co-creator with the universe. We see any mistakes we make as bad and faulty-then we label our own being as bad and faulty. We cling to our work and our duty in fact, we allow them to define our worth. These definitions have been tainted by our Westernized culture built on guilt, shame, and hustle mentality. Karma Marga, The Path of Action, is understood as an active yogi’s realization through his/her own divinity through work and duty. See also: Introduction to the Bhagavad Gita with Anusha Wijeyakumar This equipoise is called Yoga.” ( Bhagavad Gita) Never let the fruits of action be your motive and never cease to work…Be not affected by success or failure. Karma Yoga is Yoga by Action, and is clearly defined in the Bhagavad Gita by Lord Krishna: “Work alone is your privilege, never the fruits thereof. Often, we get stuck on translating karma into event-based theory-doing good deeds and having positive thoughts- rather than seeing the larger, philosophical foundation on which it was built. See also: Seeing Eye to Eye: Comparing Yoga + Buddhist Traditions What karma is-and isn’t Basically, the “self” isn’t permanent, which means that karma isn’t permanent. These things are not the true “self”-they are how a personality is formed through interaction with the material world. Instead, Buddhism focuses on the five skandhas, or aggregates) that explain the common experiences of sentient beings: form, sensation, perception, thought, and consciousness. Buddha taught a doctrine called anatman-the idea that there is no soul, no self. ![]() In Hinduism, it is largely believed that the soul, purusha, survives death and is reborn into a new body, inheriting karma from a past life. The word karma is rooted Hinduism, but its understanding is derived from Buddhism (a branch of Hindu theology). Karma is the Sanskrit word for action, and action is what rules our lives. We’ve heard it a million times: “That’s karma!” and “What goes around comes around!” or my personal favorite, “Karma’s a bitch!” And while it has become a reliable belief system that good deeds, positive energy, and kind thoughts breed an easier, happier future, the idea that negativity means bad karma, a curse on our own lives, is a faulty one. This means that today we are a result of our accumulated experiences from the past.Heading out the door? Read this article on the new Outside+ app available now on iOS devices for members! All aspects of the person we have become, based on our experiences during thousands of lives, sit in our aura and make us into the person we are today. This experience of suffering will tell us with great precision what we can find it in our hearts to do to others. It holds our accumulated experiences of suffering which means that in areas where we have suffered ourselves we will develop a strong compassion towards others in the same situation. Our consciousness holds all the aspects that make us into human beings such as feelings, memory, level of intelligence, patterns of reaction, habits, ideas, morals, culture, wisdom, creativity, compassion, humour, gentleness or hardness. ![]() All experiences are stored in the aura, so that means that we become wiser, cleverer and more humane for each life we live. We build up our consciousness over thousands of incarnations, and for each life we live, we add to the contents of our consciousness because we have new experiences. Our consciousness is not restricted to the brain, but it sits around the whole body as a field of energy. It is this kind of matter that our consciousness consists of. The aura consists of electromagnetic radiation or ray-formed matter, as Martinus, the Danish visionary and mystic, calls it.
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