Sree Krishna, the Lord of LovePremananda Bharati, Baba
Religion
Sree Krishna, the Lord of Love
Premananda Bharati, Baba
Krishna (Hindu deity)
In respect to the law according to which they come to be worked out in
their turn, the Karma-seeds, white and black, are of three
classes—Sanchit, Prārabdha and Kriyamān or Agāmi. Sanchit means
stored-up. Prārabdha means Karma the reaction of which has begun or that
which is working now. Kriyaman means Karma-seeds originating out of the
Prārabdha Karma now being worked out, but which will form the seeds of
future (Agami) actions. Sanchit Karma includes the seeds of all the
actions of past existences stored up as impressions on the mind. Out of
this storehouse of Karma-seeds that, white or black, which is the most
powerful asserts itself to be worked out first, drawing to itself, by
the law of affinity. Karma-seeds of minor power, but of a nature similar
to its own. This most powerful Karma-seed, lumped up with small
Karma-seeds of similar character, forms the Prārabdha Karma, Karma which
is in the process of being worked out. And in its process of working the
fresh thought-impressions which the mind is registering are called
Kriyamān (Karma being born), also called Agāmi (future) Karma, Karma
seeds which, after being deposited in the storehouse, will come to be
worked out in their turn in future, either as main or minor Prārabdha,
according to their potency.
This is the law of working of human Karma, the inexorable law which
shapes our life and destiny, which fills existence with joy or sorrow.
Karma is unending unless we learn the mysterious law which works it and
grasp the still more mysterious Law behind that Karmic law and by its
practice destroy its roots and prevent its present and future actions
within us. I will speak of this Law and of its ways of practice later
on.
We often see a man, who has lived a good, pure and harmonious life,
suddenly, through circumstances or bad associations, changed into a bad
man. He becomes worse in habits and conduct and dies in that degraded
mental state. Similarly we find some one very bad up to a certain period
of life; he suddenly turns good and, before death, develops into an
angelic character. This law of Karma is behind this change of character.
Good Prārabdha influences one into good life and actions while it is
working. But if some black Karma-seed is the most powerful of all
Karma-seeds in the mind's storehouse, after the good Prārabdha has been
worked out, it asserts itself to be worked out next and, lumped up with
the minor seeds, forms his Prārabdha which changes the whole complexion
of his character and conduct. The case of a bad man becoming good is
subject to the same law; a white Prārabdha, owing to its predominant
power, succeeds a bad one. The liability of alternate succession of bad
and good Karma producing the actions of human beings is expressed in the
metaphoric saying that the action of Karma in man is like a revolving
wheel.
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