Karma literally means action. It has basically three dimensions,
- One is the impression of your actions from the past, called the ‘Past Karma’,
- Then there’s the action that you are doing in the present, called the ‘Present Karma’ and
- The possible action that may befall you or which you would attract in the future is called ‘Destiny’.
Life is a combination of both ‘Destiny’ and ‘Free-will’. It’s ‘Karma’ and ‘Karma Swatantrata’ both are there with you. For instance, your ‘Height’ is determined, that is your ‘Destiny’, but your ‘Weight’ is your ‘Free-will’. That, though you have not inherited the huge wealth of the past, nothing can stop you from dreaming about it and creating it in the future.
Now let’s talk about ‘Positive’ and ‘Negative’ Karma,
Suppose you have a certain ‘X’ amount of money with you to start a business and you don’t think about multiplying your capital and just sit with it. What will happen? whatever you have earned, that capital will drain over a period of time. Like that, your ‘Karma’ is your ‘Capital’. If there is a ‘Debt’ or if there is a ‘Negative Karma’ attached to you from the past, then your present action can nullify it and if there is a ‘Positive Karma’ attached to you then your present action can make it grow. In either case, ‘Doing present actions consciously is what life is all about’.
Unfathomable is the ocean of Karma because this entire creation is filled with action, there is action everywhere, even as you sit there, there is:
- Physical,
- Mental,
- Emotional and
- energy activity,
Going on all the time in each one of us, whether you are awake or asleep, the dimension of karma is happening all the time and at any given time we are simultaneously reaping and sowing karma. Every day we make decisions that will result in consequences, while at the same time, we are reaping the consequences of our previous decisions. Only because over 99% is happening unconsciously, it looks like some other force is manipulating you. It’s exactly like when a bad driver gets into some kind of crash.
Karma means reminding you that everything that I am doing and not doing is my fundamental responsibility and that you are the source of your life. Now, if you ask, ‘Is there no other force working in the Universe?’, ‘Yes it is!’, but even to harness it is your business. Nothing in life comes by itself, your life is your making, and there is nothing else that can decide. Every young person must first explore this dimension before you step out into the world and messing with other people.
You must understand, Karma is not like the ‘Reward and Punishment system’. It is just residual memory within you. Every thought, every emotion, every action, and every movement that you do in some way is recorded in your memory. This memory creates a tendency for you because so much memory is gathered naturally; it’s like building unconscious software, so naturally, it begins to function in a certain way. But, it doesn’t matter what your software is as you can always rewrite it, which is your Karma.
Karma can never be finished, they continue, it’s like asking when will the ocean have no waves. Ocean will have waves but you can rise above the wave by being a ‘Witness’ to it, not being ‘Reactive’.
So, Will you allow unconscious activity that you have performed to rule the nature and destiny of your life? Or Will you make sure it is the conscious activity that you perform that will rule the fate of your life? This is something you have to decide! And so, see the ‘Past’ as ‘Destiny’, the ‘Future’ as your ‘Free-will’ and ‘Live happily in the Present!’.