What is Karma?
This world of relativity was born out
of the Transcendent. Modern physicists look at that
as the Big Bang
theory. Really, the Big Bang theory is going on
perpetually. In the final analysis, the only thing that
exists is the unified field. Nowadays, many modern physicists
are starting to recognize the unified field is a field
of pure consciousness.
When consciousness became conscious
of itself, it perceived itself as other. In that moment,
duality was born. Consciousness became aware of that
duality, a third thing was born, and it cascaded out
into a structure. That structure is called, “the
quantum mechanical realm,” from the perspective
of modern physics, and “the Veda,” from
the perspective of the ancient seers. That structure
is alluring. It is dazzling. It is a-mazing. It interacts
with itself. We see patterns in it and we can even lose
our sense of self to those patterns, to those structures—it
bubbles.
The tendency for that structure to
move, the power of its motion, the power of its allure,
is called, “shakti.” Shakti is there because
of the force of maya. Maya is the illusion there is
such a thing as “other.” They would say
Shiva is the Transcendent itself and shakti is the power
of the Transcendent to manifest. It is like the male
and female principles.
We become lost to the dazzle to the
point we lose the sense of wholeness. When the dazzle
becomes so alluring that our appreciation of the wholeness
value becomes fragmented, simplified, and undermined,
then actions cease to be in accord with that wholeness,
the totality of harmony. When this happens, karma is
created, distortion, action. Karma is action. So, when
we think of karma, we are really thinking of the fruits
of action, the result of action: our negative karma
or our good karma. Nevertheless, they are the fruits
of action. Action takes place in relativity largely
by virtue of the dazzle and the allure of the illusion.
When we meditate, we re-enliven that
wholeness value in our awareness. It permeates up through
our being, and any distortions are then purified out
and thrown off. So, our actions become more in harmony
with the wholeness value, or they say, in harmony with
natural law.
From within the dynamic of relativity,
it is tough to find your way out of the maze. We see
all kinds of patterns, all kinds of rationales, all
kinds of rationale-izations. And they can be consistent
with some facets of nature. They are all realities.
There are an infinite number of simultaneously valid
realities.
As a species, the way we try to evolve
is we attempt to find a reality we can align with that
will answer our questions or make life better. We do
it in the arena of personal development; psychology;
science, physics, and engineering; but it is all fragmented.
It comes from the amazement of some facet or quality
of the maze. However, it is not in context. We have
lost sight of the wholeness value.
Even though we can make advancements
with that reality, it further fragments us. It keeps
us fragmented. But it is an echo of that wholeness value.
There is truth to it. It is a reality. So we go in that
direction. It is self-justifying because it is a truth,
it is a reality, and we dedicate ourselves to it. We
can make certain advancements. We create electric lights
or we do personal process techniques that seem to improve
our life in some way, shape, or form, but really it
is another dangling carrot. It is another mirage. It
is another cog in the Wheel of Karma that goes from
identity to identity to identity to identity. Do you
see how tricky it is? It is very tricky.
Meditation is where you rest into the wholeness value so that value
can permeate up through your life and free you. That
is why they call it spiritual liberation. It is really
more about liberation than grabbing onto anything or
attaining anything. It is liberating your being from
those identities, even those things you thought were
truth, those things you worked so hard to learn.
At some point, you realize truth is
not a concretion. It is not something you can hang onto.
It is not a notion; it is not a belief system; it is
not an identity. It is no-thing-ness. Pure is-ness.
Pure consciousness. The abstraction that dwells at the
depth of your being. That is God. That is divine. But
it can’t be grabbed onto. If you try to grab onto
it, it slips through your fingers. To name it is to
compromise it. It is beyond thing-ness…
© Michael Mamas, 2/07 |
