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Date Posted: 02:18:16 04/11/04 Sun
Author: Anonymous - 19 Mar 2004
Subject: Re: Karma & Kriya Question
In reply to: Kriyaban - 18 Mar 2004 's message, "Re: Karma & Kriya Question" on 02:17:33 04/11/04 Sun


'Karma is the objective cause of birth and death. Karma is of three types: prarabdha, sanchita, and kriyamana.

Prarabdha is that which is yielding fruit in the present life, ie. , the body and its conditions resulting from past-life actions.

Sanchita karma is that which is accumulating, but will not yield fruit until a future lifetime.

Kriyamana karma means future action, or karma not yet started.

As wood is reduced to ash by fire, so prarabdha karma and sanchita karma are destroyed when the devotee becomes Self-realized. Past and present karma thus destroyed can no longer govern or overwhelm the devotee. When he reaches this illumined state, Kriyamana karma (any action he performs thereafter) cannot have any effect on him, just as water rolls off a lotus leaf.

Bhagavan Krishna said: "The mind of the liberated being is unattached, enveloped in wisdom. No karma pursues any of his actions, which he perfomrs only as yajna (sacrificial rite)" (Bhagavad Gita IV:23). When the yogi's activity is directed inward in meditation, and he concentrates his life force and consciousness in the cerebrospinal centres (the ture yajna or sacrificial rite) he overcomes ego consciousness and becomes established in the Self, the soul. The effects of all karma, no matter how evil, are thereby destroyed automatically. If one does not destroy karma by this inner activity, he is subject to the effects of good and bad actions. To remain in this karmic bondage is a sin against the Self. The mind of the wise remains fixed in sahasrara, which is beyond duality; the efects of karma cannot touch that exalted being.

He who is full of faith, who preforms right action, and who has control over his senses gains true knowledge and bliss. The Self-realization achieved through this raja yoga (the sovereign path), is the greatest of all knowledge. It brings direct spiritualizing results: when one gains this immutable Self-knowledge, he is no longer affected by prarabdha or kiyamana. being thus freed from the bonds of delusion, he becomes successful in finding Giod through his Self-realization. This supreme knowledge is therefore the best, and holier than the holy. "This knowledge is teh king of sciences, the royal secret, the peerless purifier, the imperishable enlightenment, and the essence of dharma (man's righteous duty). Through ways (of yoga) that are easy to perform, this truth is knowable by direct experience" (Bhagavad Gita IX:2)."

Paramahansa Yogananda - "Mejda: The Early Life of Paramahansa Yogananda" by Sananda Lal Ghosh.

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