On Apr 4, 11:25 pm, JR <JohnRCl...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Apr 4, 5:48 am, jaiguru <jaigu...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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> > =84X=83nThe life of human beings alone is controlled by karmas
performed=
in
> > the previous birth.
> > =84X=83nHuman body is not easy to attain.One acquires the human body
aft=
er
> > performing sadhana for several lives.That is why it is the duty of
> > every human being to realize God.
> > =84X=83nHuman being indeed is the greatest creation of God because it
is=
> > only in a human being that God has vested the freedom to exert all the
> > sense organs according to one 's will;God tests if this freedom of
> > senses is used or abused.
> > =84X=83nHuman body is not to be acquired without performing virtuous
or
> > sinful deeds.As a consequence of virtuous deeds,the desire for
> > spiritual practice was born in you; as a consequence of sins the mind
> > suffered a fall - it will lift up again!It is every person 's lot to
> > rise and fall in spiritual life like the flood and ebb tides in Ganga.
> > The fall only helps in bouncing back with greater determination.
> > =84X=83nYou have obtained the birth as a human being,which is
difficult =
to
> > get.Guru has been kind enough to bestow a mantra ;you will get
> > whatever you want near the
> > wish-yielding tree of the mantra .You shall realize the fourfold
> > objects of dharma- artha-kaam-moksha from your mantra .
> > =84X=83nThe moment a man is born,the state in which he is to leave
this
> > world is determined.Nobody has the power to touch a single hair.Death
> > is a singular occurrence;it cannot take place twice.
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> > -Sri Sitaramdas Omkarnath
> > Visit Baba at:www.guruvenamah.com/www.streamsofnectar.com
> > Email jaigu...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Dear Ji,
>
> Thank-you for your quotes. With your kind permission, I would add to
> your Guruji's thoughts that human existence is not finite and that
> each of us may experience God without it turning us into a Saint who
> lives to have his feet kissed, but as someone who, by personal
> example; not words, lifts in the seeker, chela, and the unwary alike:
> awareness and broadened perceptions of God in Life.
>
> If you can, perhaps someone you know could send you the ECKANKAR book
> titled, Spiritual Exercises; and perhaps later the Shariyat-Ki-Sugmad.
> Feeling, Knowing and Touching God is as simple as a child's daydream
> if given an environment that nurtures Spiritual values like yours.
>
> Guruji is correct in that not one human being or more can alter
> another's karma assuming we can see the fractal forks of consciousness
> at play in the immediate moment for single individuals and groups.
> However in each fractal of awareness and attention, there is a play of
> light and sound in what could well be labeled, "the Aka****c" essence
> of Spirit or ECK. (I understand there are several dialects in India
> and you may recognize the spelling of ECK I just used by another
> spelling.)
>
> Continuing, as karma takes place in the present, we are bound to have
> experiences we enjoy and experiences we do not like. The
> rationalization for accepting the experiences we do not enjoy is that
> they must have been caused by a similar action we committed ourselves
> which we could call a "sin" or "evil deed." What actually happens is
> as Shankacharya (I believe it was he or was it Chankacharya?) pointed
> out, is the light and sound ray we send out returns to us in our
> relative world of duality, but not in the world of the absolute: the
> world of Soul, Tuza and Surat, where karma does not exist for the most
> part. It is by our own state of consciousness that we change the hue
> in our personal actinic rays to either benefit ourselves alone or
> everyone together. Alone we risk taking something away from another,
> but by giving to all as a conscious source of actinic love, we risk
> only taking something away from ourselves. It is in this unselfish
> state, as Sri Twitchell and Sri Tarz point out in Stranger by the
> River, we surrender all to obtain the Godhead even if it means giving
> up our life to save an animal, an Untouchable, or our worst enemy-the
> bully.
>
> We can simply change our own karma by how we focus our attention on
> the actinic ray we are creating in the present moment. You and I can
> even to learn how to control our attention as we sleep and dream
> through the night. By the way these actinic rays can be as fuzzy as a
> flashlight beam pointed in the night sky or even thinner and precise
> than a laser beam of inaudible sound. Choose your color. Your
> consciousness is your prism. Your body is you, the musical instrument.
> Your actinic rays of karma are your strings. Play a song you enjoy and
> SUGMAD (God) both enjoy.
>
> Wiki "Lucy Tune" or go tohttp://www.lucytune.comto
catch a glimpse
> of what is possible to do with a Spiritual exercise which you could
> hum to yourself throughout the day. These strings of sound current are
> what, in my opinion, the Pythagorean Mathemetikoi were studying. Keep
> IT simple. Keep IT sweet. And focus without concentrating.
>
> With Love in the Light and Sound of the ****rt on your back, the
> sandals on your feet, and the belt that holds up your trousers
> assuming you are not a woman and if you are, then with Love in the
> Light and Sound of the Sari that folds and follows in the signature of
> your every step. So be the way.
>
> JR
> (This has been an original statement, it is not copyrighted, and it
> may be shared with due caution to avoid being labeled a BSer as so
> deftly pointed out in Sri Twitchell's The Tiger's Fang and the chapter
> describing the man who found the fang.)- Hide quoted text -
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Responding to thread topic.
Does anybody know what the "ma" part to the word
"karma" means? I don't know this exactly, but it's the
part I'm contemplating.
The first part "kar" appears to indicate "action", and
this is found in a number of words. Example:
http://webapps.uni-koeln.de/cgi-bin/tamil/recherche
[enter primary word "karma" and qualify as prefix]
A part of the definition for "karmaja" on this search
(No. 40) gives:
"mfn. `" act-born "' , resulting or produced from any act
(good or bad) ...."
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I would assume the word "karma" in Sanskrit is fairly
old. That it is talked about a great deal in the Bhagavad
Gita and the subject covered from many different angles.
This word (karma) in my opinion is not a native English
word, although it is familiar to English-speaking people.
Generally, the English definition (Oh, sorry. It's not in
my English dictionary. Imagine that. Could it be that in
the majority of Western religions the facets of Karma &
Reincarnation are taboo?) suggests action & reaction.
For every action there is an equal but opposite reaction.
So, given that "kar" (in Sanskrit) suggests action, is
it wise to assume that "ma" indicates "reaction"? This
is something I'm curious about.
So far, I haven't located any earlier incarnations of the
word "karma" to determine if it illustrates a shortened, a
mispronounced, altered and/or abbreviated form of some
other older word.
I suspect that insight into the creation of this word
"karma" might help to supplement this thread topic.
Action is implied in the word, the "law of action and
reaction", however, how is that evident? Does the
"ma" have anything to do with it? I'm asking myself,
or anybody else looking at this thread.
BTW, the beginning part of the definition for "krsna"
on the same site
http://webapps.uni-koeln.de/cgi-bin/tamil/recherche
[enter "krsna" qualified exact, or "krsn" qualified as
prefix in search]
includes: ".... the dark half of the lunar month from full
to new moon ...."
I thought that was interesting. Half of it especially,
beginning with "kr". Can "krsna" provide insight into
the word "karma" though? I suspect in some way it
might. I suspect.
Etznab
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