Law of Karma

1. Law of Karma

2. What is Karma? Any Activity Every task we do is a karma. Karma is an activity, which all the human beings have to perform, until death releases them from this body prison.

3. Kriya and Karma Kriya – Natural Activity Kriya is a natural activity, which we perform in our day-to-day life, without thinking, questioning or seeking anybody's advice. If you get a nature's call, you would immediately run to the toilet, without thinking or consulting anybody. Every morning we get up, brush our teeth, take bath, wear clothes and go to work, or go to the garden, take some exercises, and do many more such acts. Such acts are known as Kriya. Karma – Intentional Activity Karma is the action or activity, deliberately done, with full knowledge and intention of the doer, and also in expectation of certain results in consequences thereof. This kind of Karma binds man to the causes and effects of the `Law of Karma'.

4. Why is Karma Important? Karma – Birth and Death To Clear Past lives Balance Liberation – Nil Karma balance

5. What Kind of Actions Bind you to Karma? Deliberate With Full Knowledge and Intention With/without Expecting some results

6. Only Actions are Karma? Thought Word

7. Action with Mind

8. Law of Karma

9. Law of Karma • Every action has a reaction • Person who performed the action should receive the reaction • The reaction is going to be exact same When you sow a seed of Karma and whenever it yields the result and become the fruit, whether it is sweet or bitter, rest assured that you and you alone will have to eat it, whether you like it or not, and no one else will be able to eat it on your behalf, even if somebody volunteers to do so

10. Law of Karma God Made (Law of Karma) Vs Man Made Law

11. First Karma(Original action) Start of Creation • Original Action • Divine Origin • Karma theory started from God himself

12. Does God bound by Law of Karma?

13. Does God bound by Law of Karma?

14. Karma vs Kala(Time) KARMA – cause for Pleasure/Pain and Birth/Death CONSEQUENCE/REACTION KALA – link between KARMA/Consequence(Action/Reaction) • Unknown (Impossible to predict) • Dependent on nature of Karma • It is in your hands?

15. Types of Karma Immediate/Instant Karma • Delayed Karma • Early Delayed Karma • Late Delayed Karma Mass Karma

16. Types of Karma Balances Sanchita Karma Prarabdha Karma Agami Karma

17. Types of Karma Balances

18. Why do bad things happen to Good People? Every human being thinks that he is undergoing suffering even though he has not done anything bad. But the fact is that whatever pleasure or pain anyone undergoes is due to Karma performed.

19. Can Good Actions remove Bad Karma? Most of the people are under the mistaken impression that after doing one bad Karma and at the same time by doing another good Karma, they can mitigate the result of the bad Karma. If one does something bad to someone, he is sure to get it back, in the same manner, today or tomorrow, from that very person himself or by any other person. By the same token, if one does good to somebody, he is also going to benefit in a similar manner. Karma is not a bank account. You deposit Rs.5000/- today, withdraw Rs.3000/- and the balance is Rs.2000/-, so when you again deposit Rs.1000/-, it becomes Rs.3000/-. Karma theory is not adding and subtracting like a bank account. It is `tit for tat, blow for blow, help for help'. It is same like Newton's 3rd law, `Action and reaction are always equal and opposite'

20. Good Actions and Prayers – what use ? One’s Transformation derives God’s Grace • Not always visible • Mind may not perceive • Continue • Test for consistency Why should one pray, meditate, contemplate on God or engage in good actions when one is anyway bound to face the consequences of one’s actions? You may not be able to see the transformation that comes within you by your good actions and prayer. You many not even be able to visualize it with your mind. Yet, this transformation in you is sure to attract God’s grace. The benefits derived from prayer or good actions may not be visible to naked eye. Yet the benefits do accrue in the form of God’s grace.

21. Actions and Prayer can change our Backlog

22. How can we overcome Karma? God’s Grace

23. How to earn Divine Grace? Absolute Faith in God Where there is faith, there is love. Where there is love, there is peace. Where there is peace, there is truth. Where there is truth, there is God. Where there is God, there is Bliss. Devotion to Father and Mother • Install God in your Heart • Make him basis of your actions • All your actions become sacred

24. Can God Change our Karma? ??? from Bougainvillea Creeper

25. Can God Change our Karma? Plums from Bougainvillea Creeper

26. Offering the results to God Perform only Karma • Do not covet for the results • Kharma phala thyaga You are not responsible of results Don’t stop performing your karma

27. Dealing with Sanchita and Agami Karma • Sanchita Karma • Namasmarana • Satsang/Study Circle • Agami Karma • Think about the consequence • If Swamy is about the action • Make it a habit

28. Dealing with Prarbdha Karma Bear it Stoically • Transmute your suffering • Learn from your suffering • Share the experience with others • Make sure to alleviate their suffering • Transcend the suffering • Stick to God • Go back to God • Transcends all body-mind conditions

29. Summary Do only Good Actions Offer the results to God Be a servant to God See God in every one Naamasmarana and Study Circle