THE THEORY OF BALANCING KARMA
The scriptures suggest that if we exhaust our Sanchita Karmas and do not accrue any Kriyamana Karmas, we could reach a point of zero i.e. we have no Karmas left to exhaust and therefore we can be free from birth and death.
Nice thought-almost impossible! Reaching a zero balance is difficult even in a debit card. So then how do we transcend this Law of Karma?
In my personal experience, even the spirit after death is involved in acts and deeds. Many tantriks use spirits to trouble people, haunt them. Many spirits do it themselves. They either want to scare people away, or get some revenge, or maybe it is their nature.
Gurudev, as we called him, was at a camp at a place called Bathri, near Dalhousie. He invited some of us disciples to spend a few days with him. He was staying at a guest house of the Himachal Electric Board. During my stay I learnt that the guest house was haunted by the spirit of a Yogi (ascetic). The watchman of the guest house would sometimes see this Yogi-like figure in his dreams. Sometimes the Yogi would tell him things. The spirit repeatedly communicated that he was waiting for a saint to visit that guest house. He had been waiting for decades.
One of Gurudev’s disciples and his wife, Mr. & Mrs. Taneja were staying in the same room with me. (It was a dormitory-like accommodation). I woke up at 6 am and overheard a conversation between the couple. She was saying that a Yogi had appeared in her dream and requested her to grant him birth. That he (the spirit) would make sure that most of the couple’s problems would be solved within the period of her pregnancy.
She told her husband that she had flatly refused the yogi and explained that she was too old to conceive. The couple went and shared this experience with Gurudev, who promptly told her that she must have this child and that she had no choice.
In confidence he repeated to me the whole experience, including the existence of the Yogi. (He was not aware of my investigating skills, or that I had done my homework on the yogi.) He mentioned that he had called another couple a week earlier to try and get the yogi to accept them as future parents. The wife had fought with the husband at that location and the yogi did not want to take birth with these potential parents. Now he seemed to be eager to take birth with the second couple. And it happened.
In less than ten months, Mrs. Taneja delivered a baby boy. A few months into her pregnancy, their economic and family issues were resolved. Today, young Mr. Taneja, the X-yogi, is a smart and educated young man running a small boutique hotel in Delhi. I went to meet him a couple of years ago. I could not find any hint of a Yogi in him, nor any inclinations. He is busy in business. He is a sauve, sophisticated young man, with a touch of arrogance.
I am sure that at some future date, he will want to explore the spiritual field-at least, I hope so. His father was a great saint and his mother highly inclined too. He certainly is seeing a lot of positive karma fructifying. He must be a powerful spirit and that’s how he could use the power to help resolve their issues before he was born. If he does not top up the jar of his positive karma, this life, for him would be an expenditure more than a profit. I do believe, that at a later stage in his life, circumstances and his destiny, will make him reconnect to the old wily yogi, that is his past.
There are other spirits who help humans do good and collaborate in spiritual healings and help many mediums who use spirits to answer questions.
I know for a fact that many saints who live in higher plains serve humans on earth and also contribute to their own good deeds. Many do it as an act of grace. Khwaja Moin Ud-din Chishti’s tomb in Ajmer, St. Francis Xavier’s Church in Goa, Mount Mary Church in Mumbai, Sai Baba’s temples, Markandeshwar’s temple at Worli, Mumbai, several Dargas of late Muslim Saints, Gurudev of Himgiri at Nasafgarh, Delhi, the list is endless of saints worldwide and across religions who do service after they give up their physical bodies.
Many skeptics would consider this a result of a psychosomatic effect or a placebo effect. They definitely have a more logical sounding viewpoint. One cannot deny that. But what does one do when one has practically experienced such phenomena? There are accounts of such experiences by several people even in today’s time. If you don’t find this easy to believe it’s understandable.
Even besides the three astral planes where spirits live, (there are many more than what have been described in the books). For example, there is the GURULOK where great GURUS stay and work for the betterment of the universe. There are several others which probably have no specific description. There is often an exchange of citizenship. Many spirits of higher planes voluntarily go to lower planes to help elevate the state and GUNAS of the lower spirit citizens.
Helping an entity with too much tamasic Guna reducing some of that, and replacing it with part Satvik and part Rajsic Gunas, helps to improve the entity’s basic nature. Similarly descending from the third level to the second, to help the inhabitants replace some Rajsic qualities by more divine Satvik ones, helps to raise the bar. Most prophets who have taken birth in a body of matter on earth, have had the same purpose in mind.
Nice thought-almost impossible! Reaching a zero balance is difficult even in a debit card. So then how do we transcend this Law of Karma?
In my personal experience, even the spirit after death is involved in acts and deeds. Many tantriks use spirits to trouble people, haunt them. Many spirits do it themselves. They either want to scare people away, or get some revenge, or maybe it is their nature.
Gurudev, as we called him, was at a camp at a place called Bathri, near Dalhousie. He invited some of us disciples to spend a few days with him. He was staying at a guest house of the Himachal Electric Board. During my stay I learnt that the guest house was haunted by the spirit of a Yogi (ascetic). The watchman of the guest house would sometimes see this Yogi-like figure in his dreams. Sometimes the Yogi would tell him things. The spirit repeatedly communicated that he was waiting for a saint to visit that guest house. He had been waiting for decades.
One of Gurudev’s disciples and his wife, Mr. & Mrs. Taneja were staying in the same room with me. (It was a dormitory-like accommodation). I woke up at 6 am and overheard a conversation between the couple. She was saying that a Yogi had appeared in her dream and requested her to grant him birth. That he (the spirit) would make sure that most of the couple’s problems would be solved within the period of her pregnancy.
She told her husband that she had flatly refused the yogi and explained that she was too old to conceive. The couple went and shared this experience with Gurudev, who promptly told her that she must have this child and that she had no choice.
In confidence he repeated to me the whole experience, including the existence of the Yogi. (He was not aware of my investigating skills, or that I had done my homework on the yogi.) He mentioned that he had called another couple a week earlier to try and get the yogi to accept them as future parents. The wife had fought with the husband at that location and the yogi did not want to take birth with these potential parents. Now he seemed to be eager to take birth with the second couple. And it happened.
In less than ten months, Mrs. Taneja delivered a baby boy. A few months into her pregnancy, their economic and family issues were resolved. Today, young Mr. Taneja, the X-yogi, is a smart and educated young man running a small boutique hotel in Delhi. I went to meet him a couple of years ago. I could not find any hint of a Yogi in him, nor any inclinations. He is busy in business. He is a sauve, sophisticated young man, with a touch of arrogance.
I am sure that at some future date, he will want to explore the spiritual field-at least, I hope so. His father was a great saint and his mother highly inclined too. He certainly is seeing a lot of positive karma fructifying. He must be a powerful spirit and that’s how he could use the power to help resolve their issues before he was born. If he does not top up the jar of his positive karma, this life, for him would be an expenditure more than a profit. I do believe, that at a later stage in his life, circumstances and his destiny, will make him reconnect to the old wily yogi, that is his past.
There are other spirits who help humans do good and collaborate in spiritual healings and help many mediums who use spirits to answer questions.
I know for a fact that many saints who live in higher plains serve humans on earth and also contribute to their own good deeds. Many do it as an act of grace. Khwaja Moin Ud-din Chishti’s tomb in Ajmer, St. Francis Xavier’s Church in Goa, Mount Mary Church in Mumbai, Sai Baba’s temples, Markandeshwar’s temple at Worli, Mumbai, several Dargas of late Muslim Saints, Gurudev of Himgiri at Nasafgarh, Delhi, the list is endless of saints worldwide and across religions who do service after they give up their physical bodies.
Many skeptics would consider this a result of a psychosomatic effect or a placebo effect. They definitely have a more logical sounding viewpoint. One cannot deny that. But what does one do when one has practically experienced such phenomena? There are accounts of such experiences by several people even in today’s time. If you don’t find this easy to believe it’s understandable.
Even besides the three astral planes where spirits live, (there are many more than what have been described in the books). For example, there is the GURULOK where great GURUS stay and work for the betterment of the universe. There are several others which probably have no specific description. There is often an exchange of citizenship. Many spirits of higher planes voluntarily go to lower planes to help elevate the state and GUNAS of the lower spirit citizens.
Helping an entity with too much tamasic Guna reducing some of that, and replacing it with part Satvik and part Rajsic Gunas, helps to improve the entity’s basic nature. Similarly descending from the third level to the second, to help the inhabitants replace some Rajsic qualities by more divine Satvik ones, helps to raise the bar. Most prophets who have taken birth in a body of matter on earth, have had the same purpose in mind.
The Spirit who Partnered in Healing
I was treated (but not cured) by a Parsi gentlemen in Andheri, Mumbai, who used a planchet to get instructions from his late Guru as to what homeopathic mixture to give me. It helped a lot, and till I kept having those medicines regularly my pain was 60% in control.
Mr. Marchant, the gentleman who used to do this healing, was an ex railway employee, and never charged for the medicine or consultation. He used to put my name in writing on a biscuit box, converted into a planchet box, with a huge magnet in it, with a perforation on the lid. He would put my name on a chit and swing the weighted string. There was a semicircle of alphabets in the outer circle and numbers from 1 to 10 in the inner circle. The swing kept moving from one alphabet to another, creating words for Mr. Marchant to follow.
He would make the medicine with the tincture of gems soaked in alcohol (I think) and pour it into homeopathic tablets. He would then place the vials on the planchet apparatus, and again he would swing the string (it had a weight at the bottom). He said that his late GURU had taught him how to do this and used to guide him continuously. He said he did not charge, as those were his late GURU’s instructions.
I think Mr. Marchant liked me a lot and was keen on teaching me his art, of what he termed as magnetic healing. Before Gurudev cured me of my arthritis, I was going to Mr. Marchant for his homeopathic/ magnetic treatment.
When Gurudev cured me, he said he would cure 95% of my disease. His disciple had thrown holy water into my eyes with force, and then removed the pain with his hands. My pain was in the ankles and wrists. He had given me some cloves and cardamom, to have daily, in a particular way, as a follow-up. I found myself cured and went to see Mr. Marchant to give him the good news and thank him for the help. Clueless of what had transpired in my case, he set up the planchet and what happened next was quite shocking.
The string kept swinging much more vigorously than normal. Almost, as if that day, it was charged with extra energy. Normally it would swing about 50 to 60 degrees. Now it was swinging more than 90 degrees. Much faster–almost aggressively. More than me, Mr. Marchant was taken aback. He broke into conversation with his box. “But how please?” “How can he be alright? ” “What are you saying please?” Unwittingly, he forgot I was a witness to his interaction! After the string had done a lot of swinging, he looked at me with helplessness. “He is saying, you are all right” “Is it true ?”
This was quite a moment for me. I decided to do an acid test. I said, “Ask him how I am alright”. The dongle was swinging again–and how ! He said “He is saying that jungle man, jungle medicine”. “I said how much am I cured ?” He said “95%”. That blew my mind! I realized that his partner in his efforts was his GURU and that could not have been a figment of his imagination.
His GURU after death was earning post death Karmas by helping heal so many people and not allowing Mr. Marchant to charge for it. It solidified my belief in Karma Yoga, almost 40 years ago. Today, it can be your third party experience if you allow it to be.
The idea of doing a perfect balancing act of exhausting the karmic balances does not make logical sense to me personally, so then, how do we transcend the laws of Karma? Another complication that I see is that because the Sanchit Karma gets exhausted in consonance with destiny, naturally destiny must be such that it gives the opportunity to erase both positive and negative Sanchits. Therefore a person with more positive Karma will have a better destiny and some bad time to exhaust the minus. While people with more negative Sanchits, will have more bad luck, sorrow, tragic events, poverty, strife and very few segments of good luck.
To synchronize this fructification of the stock in trade to specific measure, is just too hard to fathom. The ‘Catch 22’ here, is that every Mahurat (cross section of time calculated by having a person’s date and time of birth at a particular cross section of time), will have predictable luck in various spheres.
Wealth, health, relationships, education, career, marriage, romance, nature of the person, tendency towards spiritualism, criminal tendencies, life span are several factors that reflect in a person’s horoscope.
Therefore, if a person has to suffer much more, than enjoy, how can he or she be born at a time that has the trends of good luck? One is not suggesting that being rich and famous insures you from suffering. Nor does being born in poor circumstances guarantee suffering. One can be simple, just make two ends meet and yet be much happier than a millionaire. However, a mahurat also can reflect the happiness quotient of a person to a fairly accurate degree.
My deduction from this is that as a person’s destiny is the fructification of his Karmic balance sheet, it stands to reason that such person will need a matching mahurat at birth. My submission is that to have your Karma balances reduced, the right birth time is a must. To get a perfect match may not be possible, so I believe birth takes place to ensure that, at an average, your karmas are worked out. Some could be extra plus, or some extra minus.
The scriptures say that through Gyan or eternal knowledge, one can burn up one’s balance of Sanchit Karmas and be free. TRUE! Can do. But for that one needs to transcend the senses, mind and intellect and know and feel the oneness of oneself with the Supreme Consciousness. One needs to believe without doubt in AHAM BRAHMASMI ( I AM THAT) or I am a part of the whole!
The problem is knowing it logically and agreeing with the concept is one thing, but sensing it beyond intellect is another! (If the reader wants to understand this concept in greater depth,I would recommend reading the Yog Vasistha–(the teachings of Guru Vasistha to his disciple RAM).
When a person knows this, and understands the circle of MAYA, they also realize that the world we see is but a delusion of the mind and not an absolute reality. It is not easy to believe these things, because like we saw earlier, you have to go beyond what the senses perceive, what the mind thinks and what the intellect analyses.
I was treated (but not cured) by a Parsi gentlemen in Andheri, Mumbai, who used a planchet to get instructions from his late Guru as to what homeopathic mixture to give me. It helped a lot, and till I kept having those medicines regularly my pain was 60% in control.
Mr. Marchant, the gentleman who used to do this healing, was an ex railway employee, and never charged for the medicine or consultation. He used to put my name in writing on a biscuit box, converted into a planchet box, with a huge magnet in it, with a perforation on the lid. He would put my name on a chit and swing the weighted string. There was a semicircle of alphabets in the outer circle and numbers from 1 to 10 in the inner circle. The swing kept moving from one alphabet to another, creating words for Mr. Marchant to follow.
He would make the medicine with the tincture of gems soaked in alcohol (I think) and pour it into homeopathic tablets. He would then place the vials on the planchet apparatus, and again he would swing the string (it had a weight at the bottom). He said that his late GURU had taught him how to do this and used to guide him continuously. He said he did not charge, as those were his late GURU’s instructions.
I think Mr. Marchant liked me a lot and was keen on teaching me his art, of what he termed as magnetic healing. Before Gurudev cured me of my arthritis, I was going to Mr. Marchant for his homeopathic/ magnetic treatment.
When Gurudev cured me, he said he would cure 95% of my disease. His disciple had thrown holy water into my eyes with force, and then removed the pain with his hands. My pain was in the ankles and wrists. He had given me some cloves and cardamom, to have daily, in a particular way, as a follow-up. I found myself cured and went to see Mr. Marchant to give him the good news and thank him for the help. Clueless of what had transpired in my case, he set up the planchet and what happened next was quite shocking.
The string kept swinging much more vigorously than normal. Almost, as if that day, it was charged with extra energy. Normally it would swing about 50 to 60 degrees. Now it was swinging more than 90 degrees. Much faster–almost aggressively. More than me, Mr. Marchant was taken aback. He broke into conversation with his box. “But how please?” “How can he be alright? ” “What are you saying please?” Unwittingly, he forgot I was a witness to his interaction! After the string had done a lot of swinging, he looked at me with helplessness. “He is saying, you are all right” “Is it true ?”
This was quite a moment for me. I decided to do an acid test. I said, “Ask him how I am alright”. The dongle was swinging again–and how ! He said “He is saying that jungle man, jungle medicine”. “I said how much am I cured ?” He said “95%”. That blew my mind! I realized that his partner in his efforts was his GURU and that could not have been a figment of his imagination.
His GURU after death was earning post death Karmas by helping heal so many people and not allowing Mr. Marchant to charge for it. It solidified my belief in Karma Yoga, almost 40 years ago. Today, it can be your third party experience if you allow it to be.
The idea of doing a perfect balancing act of exhausting the karmic balances does not make logical sense to me personally, so then, how do we transcend the laws of Karma? Another complication that I see is that because the Sanchit Karma gets exhausted in consonance with destiny, naturally destiny must be such that it gives the opportunity to erase both positive and negative Sanchits. Therefore a person with more positive Karma will have a better destiny and some bad time to exhaust the minus. While people with more negative Sanchits, will have more bad luck, sorrow, tragic events, poverty, strife and very few segments of good luck.
To synchronize this fructification of the stock in trade to specific measure, is just too hard to fathom. The ‘Catch 22’ here, is that every Mahurat (cross section of time calculated by having a person’s date and time of birth at a particular cross section of time), will have predictable luck in various spheres.
Wealth, health, relationships, education, career, marriage, romance, nature of the person, tendency towards spiritualism, criminal tendencies, life span are several factors that reflect in a person’s horoscope.
Therefore, if a person has to suffer much more, than enjoy, how can he or she be born at a time that has the trends of good luck? One is not suggesting that being rich and famous insures you from suffering. Nor does being born in poor circumstances guarantee suffering. One can be simple, just make two ends meet and yet be much happier than a millionaire. However, a mahurat also can reflect the happiness quotient of a person to a fairly accurate degree.
My deduction from this is that as a person’s destiny is the fructification of his Karmic balance sheet, it stands to reason that such person will need a matching mahurat at birth. My submission is that to have your Karma balances reduced, the right birth time is a must. To get a perfect match may not be possible, so I believe birth takes place to ensure that, at an average, your karmas are worked out. Some could be extra plus, or some extra minus.
The scriptures say that through Gyan or eternal knowledge, one can burn up one’s balance of Sanchit Karmas and be free. TRUE! Can do. But for that one needs to transcend the senses, mind and intellect and know and feel the oneness of oneself with the Supreme Consciousness. One needs to believe without doubt in AHAM BRAHMASMI ( I AM THAT) or I am a part of the whole!
The problem is knowing it logically and agreeing with the concept is one thing, but sensing it beyond intellect is another! (If the reader wants to understand this concept in greater depth,I would recommend reading the Yog Vasistha–(the teachings of Guru Vasistha to his disciple RAM).
When a person knows this, and understands the circle of MAYA, they also realize that the world we see is but a delusion of the mind and not an absolute reality. It is not easy to believe these things, because like we saw earlier, you have to go beyond what the senses perceive, what the mind thinks and what the intellect analyses.
