By Dadi Janki

“It’s God’s task to purify the impure, to transform the world,” Dadi Janki tells us. “But He can’t do it alone. He says, ‘I’ve got to get it done through you. You’ve created hell in the world, and so you have to be the instruments to create heaven. Then you can be the masters of heaven.’” This message is Dadi Janki’s mandate for leaders. And while this diminutive woman draped in a white sari might appear to be from an era long past, she is a guiding force to a bright future. “Those with a positive vision of the future,” she writes, “give us an image of a world . . . where the highest human potential is fully realized. But we can get to that stage only when there are leaders to take us there.”

And she is determined to create those leaders. Through “Call of the Times” dialogues, she invites key figures in government, business, and the nonprofit sector from all five continents to engage in the deepest level of dialogue and reflection about the current human situation. After these dialogues, she has been known to select someone to continue to work directly with her—meditating and engaging in discussion—to insure that that person viscerally grasps our world crisis and is compelled to take action in new and profound ways.

“Her leadership is not based on any formal position that she holds,” says Tex Gunning, president of Unilever Bestfoods Asia. “Her power comes purely from her spiritual credibility. As a leader, the more I’ve searched for role models, the more I’ve come to realize that this is the most profound power. If my boss asks me to make a meeting, I look at my agenda first. But if Dadi Janki, with whom I have no formal relationship, tells me to be in London, I just get on the plane!” As she makes profoundly clear to those who come in contact with her, there is no choice but to respond to the call to change the world: “As God says, ‘This is what you have to do.’ And we must say, ‘Yes, we will.’”

About author:
Dadi Janki has pioneered, exemplified, and shared a structured and disciplined method of spiritual development that has had a profound impact on the lives of millions across the world. Learn more about What is Enlightenment? here.

By Andrew Cohen

It is indeed a remarkable fact that now, at the dawn of the twenty-first century, executives and business leaders are beginning to look to the perennial spiritual truth of Oneness, not only for personal salvation in these most challenging of times but as the source for a new, deeper, and higher perspective from which to engage in the global marketplace. The first time I heard about this phenomenon was about four years ago when a friend told me: “Business people are scared because the rate of change is accelerating so quickly that they know the old ways of thinking are outmoded. They’re turning to spiritual concepts and techniques as an adaptive or coping mechanism in order to survive in this brave new world.”

On a recent teaching trip to Australia, I was invited to give a presentation about “authentic leadership,” sponsored by the Australian Institute for Management and the Integral Leadership Centre. Present were business consultants, managers, executives, healthcare practitioners, and even a government minister. In the morning, I gave a talk about the evolution of consciousness in order to create a context—the biggest context possible—in which to talk about the importance of leadership.

In the afternoon, I spoke about authentic leadership, which is quite a big buzzword in the alternative business community. In fact, knowing I was a spiritual teacher and not a professional business consultant, my host reminded me before the second talk, “Andrew, be sure to get something in about authentic leadership.” Of course, in an enlightenment context, there is no difference between what it means to be an authentic leader and what it means to be a liberated human being. I made clear that if we aspire to be an authentic leader, we must always be willing to:

Stand alone
Live fearlessly
Act heroically
Want to be free and true more than anything else
Take unconditional responsibility for oneself
Face everything and avoid nothing
At all times see things impersonally
Live for a higher purpose *

As I slowly but passionately worked my way down the list, I could feel the atmosphere in the room change from the openhearted receptivity that had met my morning presentation to one of drowsiness, dullness, discomfort, and even fear. Then, out of the blue, my host suddenly stood up and said, “Let’s take a short break!” Giving that talk was a confusing experience because the longer I spoke about authentic leadership, the more powerfully I felt the message was actually coming through. And the more powerfully I felt the message coming through, the greater was the feeling of inertia, resistance, and disinterest in the room. When we gathered again after the brief break, the fear and inertia were gone, but what was also gone was the palpable sense of evolutionary tension that had been present when we all, if only for the briefest moment, had glimpsed what it meant to be an authentic leader.

The thought of being a leader may seem like an appealing idea to the ego, but the reality of what being an authentic leader implies scares the ego to death. It means ego death. Why? Because it means that we actually care so much about a higher purpose, a higher principle, a higher goal that we’re willing to make the most important sacrifices for the sake of what we are aspiring to accomplish. It means we care so passionately about others also reaching that goal that we unhesitatingly sacrifice our own peace of mind, comfort, and security in order for them to succeed. It really means that we have no choice left anymore because we have realized without any doubt that from now on, it’s up to us. We have realized that One Without a Second. We have realized that there is no other and there never could have been. What is so interesting about authentic leadership is this very insight: that once we have arrived, there is no longer any point of return. We have become one with destiny itself.

About author:
Andrew Cohen, founder of What Is Enlightenment? magazine, is a spiritual teacher and acclaimed author widely recognized as a defining voice in the emerging field of evolutionary spirituality. A life-changing awakening in 1986 brought Cohen to the end of his own search for liberation while simultaneously starting him on an exploration of the meaning and significance of enlightenment for our time. This has led him to a profound investigation of the human predicament and into dialogue with sages, saints, and spiritual luminaries from nearly every tradition and beyond.

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By Jenny Liu

Business Feng Shui

As we look down a commercial boulevard, there are many similar businesses. Some of which thrive and others that struggle. Business owners often question me why it is that their competitor’s services or products are no better or less expensive than theirs but they are doing much better? Business may not always be slow, it comes and goes, but there are a lot of problems that cause internal struggle for the owner. Some of these problems include troublesome customers, poor inventory, bad credit, or conflicts with staff. Earning a living becomes a daily struggle. What makes one business do better than another? What can be done to improve businesses that are having trouble?

There are about 30 factors that influence or determine our success in life. Of the 30, there are some that are predestined or unchangeable such as our parents, our birth date, birth place, our culture and the economic and cosmic cycles at our time of birth. These factors have a great impact on our foundation in life and we have no control over them. Nonetheless, we can learn about ourselves through these factors. Then, there are adjustable factors such as our education, friends, spouse, career, personality, creativity, moral, motivation, ambition, endurance, philosophy of life, abilities to make a living, place of establishment and the energy or feng shui of our home or office.

If we were to set these factors on a scale, how do they rank in contributing to our success in life? How can we improve certain factors to promote us?

Feng shui is one of the easiest accessible means of change that can be used to promote our well-being. When our business has done all the promotion in the right markets and the product or service is competitive, and yet business is slow, we need to consider other factors that may be influencing it.

Does the business match you?

It is important for us to make sure that the field we select is compatible with our energies. First, we need to learn about our personal energies. Aside from our basic education and personal skills, a birth chart called the “zi wei” is can be used to reveal ourselves. It is a complex astrology chart based on your birthday, time and place. The chart serves as a guideline of our life path and is only one out of 30 factors that influence us. Nonetheless, its accuracy is about 75-90%. It covers twelve aspects of our lives. These include our vital/personal energies, parents, siblings, spouse, friends, children, career, money, travel, fortune, property, and health. In general, it covers ten year, annual and monthly cycles of our life and lets us understand our potential, our weaknesses and strengths. In this case, the main focus would be the career sector which indicates suitable fields for a particular person. In many cases, a person who is working in a compatible field has a easier time becoming successful than one who is not. For instance, a person who is meant to be a restaurant owner may find it difficult to succeed as an engineer.

Are you doing your business at the right time in your life?

Also from our zi wei birth chart, we can tell when the strongest periods are in our life. When do we reach our turning points in life and really begin to live? It may be that we do not really take off in our business until our late 40’s, or maybe we have already passed our high point in life without realizing it. New business ventures should be opened at the right time in our lives. If we start a business during a period in our life when the energy cycles are low, it may be challenging and hard for it to thrive.

Are you doing it in the right place?

It is very important to understand where the energies on this Earth promote us best. Also from the zi wei birth chart, we can find out what country, what state, which city or region is strongest for us to do our business. For example, depending on who you are and when your birth date/time is, Los Angeles may not be the best place for you to establish your business, so no matter how strong you promote it and how good the feng shui is, you may find it hard to reach your full potential.

Does the feng shui match you?

If you are in the right business, doing it at the right time and place, the next step would be to make sure the building you are doing it in also reinforces your energies. There are over 60 factors involved in a feng shui analysis of a building. The orientation, entries, shape, interior layout, colors, decoration, windows, furniture placement, exterior environment and so forth all need to be examined to see if their characteristics promote or demote the business.

Is the business owner and staff members located in their positive directions? All the principle staff members such as the owner, office managers and supervisors who have their own office or work station should be placed in their positive direction. Their positive directions is also determined by their birth date. When people are not located in suitable directions, it is harder for them to focus and be productive. There’s greater tendency for abnormal behavior, inefficiency, laziness or conflicts.

Are staff members compatible to the business owner? When staff members are incompatible with the owner, it is easy for them to have conflicts or for the employee to bring trouble into the office. It is important to compare the zi wei charts of partners, office managers and other board members to make sure they are also doing the right field of work for them, that they are in a positive period of their life and that they are able to contribute to the business. If they are not, adjusting the feng shui can help them. Otherwise, they may inadvertently bring the business down.

Are the various departments or functions of the office located in the their optimum directions?

As every function creates a unique type of energy: the entry/reception, accounting/cashier, sales/marketing, production, conference, dining areas, restrooms and so forth all need to be placed in the locations that match the owner’s energy according to the laws of nature. This involves detailed measurements and analysis of the office plans with the feng shui compass which shows the best directions for them to be located to allow the business to run smoothly and harmoniously.

Rather than be frustrated and stressed by troubled business, ask yourself these questions and take these new ideas into consideration. You may find just the right solution to your problems. The secret to that other business’ success may be their good feng shui.

About author:
Jenny T. Liu is a fourth generation practitioner who holds a BA in Environmental Design from UC Berkeley and an MA in Architecture from UCLA. Awarded for her Master’s Thesis on Feng Shui, she is an expert in the ancient Chinese philosophy of Feng Shui. Please visit her website at: http://www.liu-fengshui.com.
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By Andrew Cohen

Continuation from Part 2, If You’re Conscious, How Can You Die?

COHEN: Yes, that was amazing.

RAGNAR: Well, we have the same faculty.

COHEN: But let’s say you’re driving through a town where the water has been completely polluted, and you don’t know it. And you happen to go to a diner and drink a cup of tea or something, and then eventually, you get cancer as a result.

RAGNAR: You’d know it. You’d know it ahead of time.

COHEN: But how would you know?

RAGNAR: Are you familiar with behavioral kinesiology, or muscle testing?

COHEN: Yes.

RAGNAR: Okay. How is it that certain things weaken us and certain things strengthen us? Our body tells us. Our body sends us a signal, and that signal either weakens or strengthens us. The other day, someone was asking me about some testing equipment for kinesiology. And I said, “I don’t need the testing equipment. I’ve already got it; it’s inside me.” I can look at something or think of something, and I know the feedback loop. I know whether it comes back “this is good” or “this is bad.” It’s the same feedback loop that all animals have.

COHEN: So, in other words, you’re saying that when you become more and more conscious, you become more sensitive to what you should do and what you shouldn’t do, a direction to go in or a direction not to go in, a place to eat or a place you shouldn’t eat, that kind of thing? That your intuition will evolve in leaps and bounds, and you will experience a level of sensitivity and intuitive knowing that most people would ordinarily be unaware of, or wouldn’t even be able to imagine?

RAGNAR: Precisely. Now, I know people will say, “You’re making me feel guilty now. You’re making me feel uncomfortable because I don’t have that.” And I say, “But you can. It’s something that develops in time. It’s all called consciousness.” Some of us have been at it longer, that’s all. Some of us have grown up faster. It’s just a part of our evolution. We grow more conscious if we work at it, and if you make a commitment to work at it, then you have the ultimate protection. You’re always in the right place at the right time for the right reason—you are never not. Nothing can happen to you that you do not designate if you are that conscious.

Now, let’s say my belief is wrong. Okay, we’ll find out. But the neat thing is that your confidence is bolstered once you realize that the process works. It works in little ways, and if one is conscious enough to see it working in little ways, then you will see it working in dramatic ways. I choose to believe that everything works because you are more conscious. If you’re conscious, everything works in your favor. And if you’re unconscious, everything works against you.

COHEN: Is that because if you’re more conscious, you’re at one with the life process? So then the process itself opens up within you and before you and around you?

RAGNAR: I’ll give you an example. The other day, a wild coyote came out of the forest, came right up to me. I was outside, and I opened the door and said, “Do you want to come in?” It said, “Sure.” And it came in. I said, “Let me fix you a meal.” So my wife and I fixed him a meal. I handed him a cookie, and he said, “Thank you, I really appreciate that.” I said, “Well, I appreciate your visit. It’s nice to meet you, Mr. Coyote.” And so now Mr. Coyote comes back and forth. But this is the relationship we have with all the animals because I see that as an extension of my own energy. This is life force, just the flow of life force. It’s like I have a kite, and he’s on the other end, and the wind is blowing, so he runs through the forest. And then when I wind up the kite, here he comes again.

We have deer, a whole bunch of deer, and when we walk out there, they come up and nose me. We give them apples. I know the wildlife people in the park would go crazy if they heard me telling this story. But I say, “Hey, they love me, because I love them, and they have nothing stopping them from feeling that.” We have a wild boar—I mean, you ought to see this thing. He’s got a mane like a big black lion and burning red eyes—especially at night—and these big tusks. It would scare the hell out of anybody if they saw him. We call him by name; I call him Rasputin. He comes running up and dances around in a circle on the deck. He loves us. And this thing is totally wild. If a stranger came here, they’d never see this happen. They wouldn’t see a bear, they wouldn’t see a deer, and they certainly wouldn’t see the coyotes. The birds leave, too, when the vibrations are wrong or off.

Now, what does that tell you about life? All life is one, and if you’re in harmony with it, you can walk out into the middle of a forest, walk up to a strange deer, and touch it. The first time a mama bear came, I was out in the woods. I laid down in front of her, and she came over and sniffed me. And I showed her that I was totally surrendered, that I wasn’t going to hurt her. I have not one ounce of fear or negativity about these animals. You know, she was pregnant, and she brought her three cubs. She brought them right to our bedroom door, and we babysat the cubs while she went off and had some free time. This is on a regular basis. I’ve got photographs of this. The cubs would come in the bedroom, and we’d watch them until she came back half an hour later. And then off they’d go with their mama, because there’s no disconnect. There is no separation. It’s all one beautiful picture. However, when people with other energies come—people with fears and apprehensions—they don’t see a thing. The world changes. It’s a different world. And between the two worlds, I choose this one.

COHEN: Was there a particular moment in your life when you went through a transition where these things started to happen, when they hadn’t before?

RAGNAR: Yes. I was a spiritual maniac. I would meditate, and I’d sit cross-legged into the deep hours of the night until my knees and back hurt like hell. Finally one day, I gave it all up. I said, “This is nuts; this is totally nuts. I’m not doing this anymore.” So I just went on doing what I usually do, and it sort of became a habit to sit before the fire. And one day, back in 1977 in May—I remember it, full moon night, sitting in front of the fire—something happened. I was never so frightened in all my life. Everything I knew about myself seemed to be evaporating and dying, spontaneously. I felt like I had turned into a pillar of stone, and the last vestige of what I knew as myself was leaking out. Once the fear evaporated and the experience ended, I was different.

I don’t know how you explain that, but I can remember going out to my outhouse the following morning and sitting there with the moonlight coming in through the trees. I had the door open, and here a fox comes running up to me, and sits right before me while I’m sitting in the outhouse. Right by my knees, looking me in the eyes, and talking to me without words. Later that day, I went out to my garden. I took a little lunch with me so I didn’t have to go back to the cabin, and when I sat by a big tree to eat, a crow jumped down, sat on my knee, and said, “Can I have some of your food?” And I said, “Sure.”

From that point on, everything was different. It’s the same world, you know. I get up, I wash, I use the bathroom, I brush my teeth, I do what everybody else does, I guess, at least to some degree. But it’s different, because my amnesia went away. I don’t know if I’m enlightened. I have no idea what the word means. All I know is that I’m now different, and I like this different feeling. Nothing has ever been the same.

COHEN: How long had you been a seeker up until that point?

RAGNAR: My entire life. From the time I was a child, in one form or another, there was something nagging me, an uncomfortable nagging that never went away.

COHEN: Peter, in the way that you think about it today, is there any difference between the quest for enlightenment and the quest for physical immortality? Because most revered sages and masters have passed away.

RAGNAR: I know I go out on a limb when I answer questions like this, but I have to say, master of what? Master of your thoughts? If you’re a master of your thoughts, you’re master of your body, master of your money, master of your life circumstances. If you have personal mastery, then it’s visible, measurable, and you can demonstrate it.

Right now, at my age, I am master of my body. I’m master of my mind, my financial world, my emotional world, my personal environment. I don’t know, maybe it won’t always be that way. But I doubt it. Why would I give up now? People say, “You’re getting arrogant, you’re getting pompous, and life is going to show you.” You know, “Pride comes before the fall.” And I say, “Well, pride is something you’ve got to earn.” You earn the right to be proud of your accomplishment, and at the same time, once you realize how hard you had to work, you’re immensely humbled.

COHEN: Right. But in relationship to this question, for example, in India, maybe even in the last century, there were people such as Ramakrishna or Ramana Maharshi who were undoubtedly highly enlightened beings, yet who died painful deaths. They died of cancer.

RAGNAR: Well, I guess there was one thing they didn’t have mastery over, isn’t there?

COHEN: The reason I’m asking is because those individuals were universally considered to be profoundly enlightened beings. The Buddha, too, seemed to have passed away from food poisoning. And it seems that the power of their awakening had everything to do with victory over the mind. Yet they all died painful deaths.

RAGNAR: I don’t discount their reputations, and I would never say anything negative about them. But I immediately have doubts about the levels of mastery. I don’t understand how you can have mastery over your thoughts and not have mastery over your body, because the body, at least from my perspective, is your thoughts. Unless you simply choose to commit suicide. And then I have to wonder, why do you want to do that? Don’t you like the people around you? I mean, have these disciples absolutely eaten you up? I don’t know. But at least I’ll go on this particular track until I’m proven wrong. And when I’m proven wrong, I’ll apologize to them! I’ll say to all those dead gurus, “I apologize to you. You were right; you can’t get to keep this body.”

I’m lonely. I’m out here by myself, Andrew. But I can say for sure that the little things give you confidence. If you can do the little things, you know that by the inch it’s a cinch and by the yard it’s hard. So you do the little things, and you keep building, and every little unit of consciousness that expands, every little breakthrough that you have, is living a life of victory. And pretty soon, the final victories, whatever they may be, are there on the horizon and you’re crashing through them. I’ve often said, “Okay, so you’ve climbed the mountain. Now we’re standing on the peak. What do you do next? You step off into space.”

By Andrew Cohen

Continuation from Part 1, If You’re Conscious, How Can You Die?

COHEN: How do you go to bed with more energy than you woke up with? Is it because you’re building it during the day?

RAGNAR: Right. This is why I do what I call Magnetic Qi Gong. I’ve discovered a way to go to bed with my body buzzing. And the buzz is basically the battery charger. We tested this just last week with a chiropractic acupuncture clinic. They brought their electro-meridian imaging equipment up here, and after I did some chi gong, they tested me. The unit can’t even measure past where the life force in my kidneys reached; they said they’d never seen anything like that before. The Chinese say that the life force is in the kidneys, and there are some reasons for that, but nevertheless, they couldn’t believe the readings. The readings were off the chart.

And it’s not just the kidneys—it’s all the organs. If you do certain practices, you can enhance the voltage in all the organs and meridians of the body. Basically, we’re buzzing power plants. We’re nuclear power plants.

COHEN: And you believe that human life expectancy should be between 160 and 200 years?

RAGNAR: If you look at the rate of maturation of any animal—in other words, the ratio of the length of time it takes an animal to mature to the length of its life span—for most animals it’s ten to twenty times. A horse, for example, will mature in two years and live for twenty-five to thirty years. Same thing with chimpanzees, dogs, cats—with all animals, it’s at least ten to twenty times. The only exception to this rule is the human species. Even if you take ten times human maturity, which is a low figure, that gives you 180 years. If it’s twenty times, then double that.

You’ve got to get sick in order to die. Nobody dies healthy. I’ve heard people say, “They just died of old age.” And I say, “No, they had so many diseases, they didn’t know which one killed them!” To get sick, you have to get into some type of negativity that damages one or more particular organs.

I’m probably out there by myself on this one, but I feel that we do have ultimate control of our body, because our body is a thought. It’s filled with frozen memories—memories that are formed by our experiences that we have already reached conclusions about, and we’ve emotionalized those conclusions and frozen them into our flesh. Therefore, only when we thaw it out and release, and stop holding on for dear life, can we have dear life.

COHEN: What you’re saying is that a lot of the ideas and beliefs that we have about who we are, about the nature of life, and about how long it’s possible to live are subconscious and unquestioned. So in this sense, I understand what you mean about them being frozen in our body. And unless they are released, since we are not aware of them, they are likely to determine our destiny.

RAGNAR: Precisely.

COHEN: Okay. That’s clear. But when you said that our body is a thought, did you mean that literally?

RAGNAR: Yes, I meant that literally. Actually, I should have said that many, many trillions of thoughts form our body. And it’s really the health of our overall life view or worldview that determines our physical health.

COHEN: You seem to have awakened to a perspective where you see the nondifference between the physical, the psychological, the emotional, the spiritual, and the energetic—where you’re able to see all these as literally one process. And of course, most of us are in the habit of relating to our experience in a way that is very conceptual and completely divorced from the integrity of the process itself. The way we see our experience is often only a small fraction of the totality of what’s really happening. And I suppose that unless one actually gets to the point where one directly experiences this insight into the ultimate nondifference between spirit and matter, there will still be some kind of fundamental separation between what one is doing and how one is thinking about the process, some fundamental duality in terms of oneself.

RAGNAR: You’re describing it so well, Andrew, because there is no separation.

COHEN: Some people would say that this insight into the fact that there is a much deeper relationship between the mind and the body than we had previously thought is true up to a point, but that there are certain processes that really won’t be affected by what we think, certain processes that are, in fact, unconscious. And you’re basically defying that. You’re saying that it’s possible to become so conscious of these physical processes that we would be able to have absolute control over the whole system.

RAGNAR: Absolutely. There are so many people, for example, who have had spontaneous remissions of cancer. The medical researchers scratch their heads and say they don’t know why it goes away. But the reason it goes away is that the intention to live is so powerful, so strong, that it overrides any other negative programming that might be in the body.

A classic example that is cited in psychology texts is the Krebiozen story. A cancer patient, Mr. Wright, got this worthless placebo—at least that’s what the AMA eventually said about the drug Krebiozen. He went to a doctor and said, “Look, I’m dying.” He had tumors so big they had to milk them. And the doctor said, “What’s it going to hurt to give the guy Krebiozen? He’s going to be dead in a weekend anyway. It’s an inoperable cancer, the worst of the worst.” After he got the worthless drug, the journals stated, “His tumors melted like snowballs on a hot stove.” He totally recovered from his cancer in ten days’ time. No one could explain it. Unfortunately, the story has a bad ending because later, when Mr. Wright read the AMA report revealing that Krebiozen was worthless, he said, “Oh, it was worthless,” and his cancer came back, and he died.

Here you have a classic example of the power of intention. His intent was to stay alive, and when he saw that he had an opportunity, the body said, “Yes sir, what do you want us to do?” All the immune soldiers lined up and saluted him and said, “Whatever you want; you’re the commander.” And we are the commander.

COHEN: What do you think happened to the cancer? If it went into total remission, theoretically, it wouldn’t be there anymore, so it wouldn’t be able to come back. Are you saying that the cancer that was originally present was also a thought?

RAGNAR: Yes, I believe that. Look at how many people die after receiving a diagnosis saying they’ve got six weeks to live. And sure enough, in six weeks they’re dead. Yet what if it was a misdiagnosis, as it has been in some cases?

COHEN: Yes. But one could live next to a chemical plant and get poisoned, or live next to Chernobyl and get cancer from radiation, and that wouldn’t necessarily have anything to do with any negative thinking, right?

RAGNAR: It’s a hard question to answer because people get very sensitive when you say anything about personal responsibility. But I think that if I had been living in the Ukraine, there would have been something inside me that said, “Get out of here, boy; get out of here.” You know, whenever a severe storm comes, if you look around here, the animals are gone. They disappear; they know. All you have to do is listen to nature, and it tells you everything and anything you need to know about life. The animals know without knowing all the time. Not some of the time, not part of the time, but all of the time. And we do too.

COHEN: But there were thousands of people who would have had no warning. I mean, that has to be part of the equation, doesn’t it?

RAGNAR: When do we have no warning? I’ve said this so many times, and I know it bugs people. It irritates them when I say, “Look, you never have an accident without being warned at least three times in advance. It’s just that you fail to hear or see or perceive the very warning that’s before you.” Nothing happens to us without us first being told about it. It’s like the tsunami. Where did the animals go? They already knew.

By Andrew Cohen

I’ve often wondered how it would look if someone like Jack LaLanne or Anthony Robbins—whom I’ve always admired for their indomitable spirit, incredible self-discipline, and joie de vivre—became enlightened. When I discovered Peter Ragnar, I think I found out.

The amazing Peter Ragnar is a modern-day shaman, Taoist wizard, natural life scientist, and self-master par excellence. He lives in the Tennessee mountains with his wife, and he claims to be a “senior citizen” but refuses to give away his age because he “doesn’t believe in it.” He does strenuous two-hour strength-training workouts seven days a week and performs record-breaking feats. He’s been a martial arts practitioner for over fifty years, and he has developed his own version of Taoist energy practice called “Magnetic Qi Gong,” which he claims is the key to immortality. He has healing powers and is renowned for his clairvoyant and telepathic abilities. He lives on a strict diet of raw foods and juices and has spent a lifetime studying the relationship between the body and the mind at all levels. And his most remarkable attainment is his profound awakening to the energetic dimension, or “bio-electric-magnetic” field, of life. While this dimension of reality and experience is one that many have heard of, it’s a world that Peter actually lives in.

All this being said, Peter’s most compelling and inspiring message is his steadfast and passionate call to self-mastery based upon the relentless cultivation of intention. This foundational element of his teaching is clearly a contemporary expression of the great American New Thought tradition, championed in the early twentieth century by Napoleon Hill, author of the all-time bestseller Think and Grow Rich,and later by Norman Vincent Peale, known for his widely acclaimed, inspirational classic The Power of Positive Thinking. Hill wrote in 1937, “Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe it can achieve.” At the beginning of the new millennium, Peter Ragnar is proving that it’s still true!

ANDREW COHEN: Peter, why is it that you declare that there is no explainable reason why a person should die, other than his or her belief in death?

PETER RAGNAR: Because I feel that we have ultimate control to the degree that we’re conscious. If we are conscious enough, we can make anything happen in our body. We can preserve this body or we can kill this body.

It’s very simple to see how people kill their bodies with their thoughts—it’s a product of their unconsciousness of causes and effects. If we’re conscious of our thoughts—I mean luminously conscious of our thoughts—those thoughts then impregnate the cellular structure of our body in a way that is very, very difficult to explain. When you have an abundance of life force inside you, it pours out of your eyes. It comes out of the palms of your hands as heat, as healing heat. It radiates as if you swallowed the sun, and you are different. Now, with that type of dynamic and powerful energy inside of you, how can you die?

COHEN: Interesting question!

RAGNAR: It’s a working hypothesis, of course. But the more life we have running through our body’s energy system, the more alive we are. Life is not death, life is the opposite of death. So embracing life is the situation. How many people embrace life with every thought and every action and every decision they make? Only a very, very rare few.

You see, we’ve been conditioned to believe in death. Right from the very first breath we take, we feel like life is a march between the womb and the tomb.

COHEN: (laughs) Well, it does seem that everything in the universe that is born and takes on physical form goes through a maturation process and ultimately degenerates and falls away.

RAGNAR: That’s true. But let’s look at it from the standpoint of a caterpillar in the process of becoming a butterfly. Andrew, do butterflies come out of deformed cocoons, or do they come out of cocoons that are fully perfected?

COHEN: Cocoons that are fully perfected.

RAGNAR: Exactly. So I feel that we should endeavor with every ounce of strength that we have to create a perfect life, to become fully perfected as human beings, and then see if we fly. Now, we may not. I may be wrong. But the quest is to be a perfect human.

That may sound rather egotistic. People might say, “Oh no, just give up, don’t do anything. You’re efforting too much.” But it’s not effort—it’s our evolution. Our evolution is to get better and better and better at every single thing that we do. For example, I’m well past my athletic prime, according to the experts, and yet I keep breaking my own personal records. I don’t believe in age; I’m ageless. But I will say that I’m a senior citizen, a pre-baby boomer. And I continue to break records I couldn’t have done when I was in my twenties and thirties. Why? Because I don’t believe in limitations. And because I don’t believe in them, I’m free. I’m free to do anything I want to do. If I want to break world records, I can break world records, if that’s what’s important.

COHEN: What you seem to be saying is, “Let’s make the effort to transcend all of our self-limiting thoughts, all of our convictions of emotional, psychological, spiritual, and physical limitation. Let’s first try to discover, at least as far as we can humanly imagine, what a perfectly full and absolutely positive embrace of the human experience is. And then let’s see what the result is going to be on every level, including the physical.” Is that what you mean?

RAGNAR: Absolutely. You put it as good as it can be put.

COHEN: So therefore, you don’t actually mean that if you strive to live a perfect life, you will live forever. But that if you strive to live a perfect life, you don’t exactly know how long you’re going to live, but let’s find out. That kind of thing?

RAGNAR: Exactly, let’s find out. It’s a working hypothesis. Let’s find out if this life is a definite one of eighty to ninety years, or seventy to eighty years, however gerontologists might want to estimate it—or whether it’s an indefinite life that you can go on living as long as you stay in that space. If you can live the “perfect life,” how long would that life span be?

COHEN: What would it mean, then, to live a perfect life?

RAGNAR: Well, first, it would be free of all limiting beliefs, because we are not limited creatures unless we believe we’re limited. And how do we drop all limitations? By becoming more conscious. By adding more conscious energy and life force to our physical organism until we literally see it glowing; we see it glowing in the dark.

COHEN: Peter, what is the life force? Where does it come from?

RAGNAR: I wish I knew that. The Chinese Taoists call it chi, and a lot of people refer to it. But these are just words. It’s an oscillation that is absolutely physically measurable. To the degree that your body oscillates with its vibration, it can be measured. But what it is . . . they’re still arguing about what electricity is! We know how to create it, but we don’t know what it is.

Every time you have an electrical field, you also have a magnetic field, so you can’t really talk about electricity without bringing magnetism into it. But what’s beyond that? They’ve discovered that maybe the smallest quantum of energy is actually what is defined as chi. It’s an oscillation of something that gives off a bio-electric-magnetic field. The stronger that bio-electric-magnetic field is, the more vitality the individual has, the more life force. And of course, you’ll see it in the electricity in the eyes; you’ll hear it in the voice; you’ll see it in the way the body flows without hesitation; you’ll see it in the posture. I don’t know what it is; all I know is that I am that.

COHEN: You make a distinction, I think, between prenatal and postnatal chi. Could you explain what the difference is?

RAGNAR: Basically, we come into this life with a battery that has a certain amount of juice in it. I call this prenatal chi. If you don’t do a thing and you just continue to run with your lights on and the radio blaring, eventually the battery will wear out, depending upon how much demand you put on it. And that’s generally seventy to eighty years. So we’ve got a battery that is meant to last at least that long. However, if you plug the battery in at night and you charge it, there’s no end in sight—that’s postnatal chi. I have a concept that says: If you go to bed with more energy than you woke up with, then all night long, you’ve got the battery charger on. And that’s the secret to life. It’s that simple.

By Janarrdhana Guptha

Meaning & Significance of Karma

Karma is a Sanskrit word springing from the root “Kri” – “to do” or “to make” or more simply, “action”. The deeper meaning of Karma can be described as an infinite chain of the results of action that is perceived and performed. Karma is a concept of wisdom, based on the Ancient Vedas and Upanishads, which explains a system where beneficial events are derived from past beneficial actions and harmful events from past harmful actions, creating a chain of actions and reactions throughout a person’s reincarnated lives.

When we talk about “Our Karma” we’re talking about the actions we’ve “sown” or performed in the past (including our past lives) that are the cause of what we “reap” in our current life situation. This either becomes our Karmic Burden or Karmic Baggage or our Karmic Blessing depending on whether we’ve performed positive or negative actions in the past.

Every action, either physical, emotional or mental, every movement occurring either on the plane of gross matter (Sthoolam) or on the astral planes (Sookshma), causes an emission of Energy. In other words, it produces a Seed.

Being a Seed, Karma fructifies or does not fructify immediately after it is sown. The innumerable Karmic Seeds we produce by our various actions – desire, aversion, love, hatred, happiness, etc. will undoubtedly produce, sooner or later, a positive or negative result according to the nature of the seed, if not in this life, then in some future one.

The Vedas propound, “Here they say that a person consists of desires. And as is his desire, so is his will. As is his will, so is his deed. Whatever deed he does, that he will reap.”

Karma should not be confused with Fate. Fate is the notion that man’s life is preplanned for him by some external power, and he has no control over his destiny. Karma on the other hand, can be corrected. Because man is a Conscious Being and he can be aware of his Karma and thus strive to change the course of events, with the help of superior powers.

Four Types of Karma

Karma is primarily of four kinds :

1. Sanchita Karma (Sum Total Karma or “Accumulated actions” or the Arrows in the Quiver)

Sanchita Karma is the vast store of piled-up Karma accumulated in the preceding and in all other previous births and yet to be resolved. In other words, it is the aggregate sum of yet unseen Karmas committed during innumerable previous existences. This is your total cosmic debt. Every moment of your every day, you are either adding to it or you are reducing this cosmic debt. It is waiting to be fulfilled in your future births. So unless and until the Sanchita Karma of a Soul is zeroed, it keeps on birthing in new physical bodies, in order to exhaust it’s balance Sanchita Karma.

2. Praarabdha Karma (Fructifying Karma or “Actions began; set in motion” or Arrows in Flight)

That portion of the Sanchita Karma destined to influence human life in one or the present incarnation is called Praarabdha. In other words, Praarabdha Karma is Karmic Template (of that portion of Sanchita Karma) that is ripe enough to be experienced by you and alloted for this lifetime for you to work on. If you work down your agreed upon debt in this lifetime, then more past debts will surface to be worked on. And that much Sanchita Karma gets dissolved.

Jyotish, the Vedic Astrology and any other authentic method of Astrology, at it’s best, can reveal only the Praarabdha Karma. Thus the Natal Horoscope is the Blue Print of the Karmic Energy Patterns of the Praarabdha Karma only.

3. Kriyamana Karma (Instant, Current Karma or “Being made” or Arrows in Hand)

Kriyamana Karma is the daily, instant Karma created in this lifetime and that we create in our life because of our free actions. It refers to those which are currently in front of us to decide or act on. This contributes to our Future Karma in a big way. They can also be worked off immediately. These are debts that are created and worked off – i.e. for example, you park your vehicle in a ‘No Parking Space’, you get caught and you are fined (punished) immediately.

While some Kriyamana Karmas bear fruit in the current life, others are stored for enjoying in future births. Thus the Kriyamana Karma is classified into two sub-categories: Arabdha Karma – literally, ‘begun, undertaken;’ the Karma that is ‘sprouting’- and Anarabdha Karma – ‘not commenced; dormant’ or ‘The Seed Karma’. An example : two persons committ a theft and one of them get caught – Arabdha Karma – and the other one got away – Anarabdha Karma. The thief who got caught, immediately starts to feel the effect of the cause or the reaction to his action; he gets caught and goes to jail. The other robber who escaped, will have to experience, in this life or in a future one, the effect of this wrongful action.

The Horary Chart of Prashanna and Aaruda methods of the Vedic Astrology, Tarot Reading, Runes Casting and I-Ching Reading, when done under guidance, can reflect both the Praarabdha Karma as well as the Kriyamana Karma. However, the Energy Consultancy (Energy Audit) and the resulting LifeForce Energy Assessment Report will be more accurate and more specific. It is, in a way, your latest Karmic Energy Bank Statement in the context of the query.

4. Aagami Karma (Future Karma)

Aagami Karma is the Karmic Map that is coming, as a result of the merits and demerits of the present actions of your current birth. In other words, it is the portion of Karma that is created because of the actions in the present life and that will be added to your Sanchita Karma. If you fail to work off your debt, then more debts are added to Sanchita Karma and they become more Karmic Seeds and are served to you in more future lives.

Soul Energy Correction through Crystal Energy Fields

In Vedantic Literature, there is a beautiful analogy. The Archer has already sent an arrow and it has left his hands. He cannot recall it. He is about to shoot another arrow. The bundle of arrows in the quiver on his back is the Sanchita Karma; the arrow he has shot is Praarabdha Karma; and the arrow which he is about to shoot from his bow is Kriyamana Karma. The result of the arrow that he is about to shoot is the Aagami Karma.

Here is a modern example : You go on a motor bike ride and get into an accident. The accident is your Praarabdha Karma – your allotted Karma for this life out of the entire Sanchita Karma of your Soul. To bandage the wound in order to minimize your suffering would be your Kriyamana Karma. To set an intention to be more careful in the future would be your Aagami Karma. To buy a bike light and reflectors in order to avoid future accidents would also be your Kriyamana Karma.

Based on this description, it is generally thought that Praarabdha Karma is inevitable and should be suffered and endured. It has been likened to an arrow which, once shot from a bow cannot be taken back. The intention of this example is to really and only to show how strong the Praarabdha Karma is. It does not mean that there is no remedy at all. An eminent warrior can neutralise the arrow with another arrow and can escape from being its target. Similarly, with the help of SOUL ENERGY CORRECTION done through proper CEFs – CRYSTAL ENERGY FIELDS (under the guidance of Higher Cosmic Light Beings), one can overcome not only the effects of Praarabdha Karma and Aagami Karma through Kriyamana Karma, but also nullify the Sanchita Karma itself, thereby avoiding further rebirths. Read more about Crystal Karma Gate 24 which implements the Ultimate Karma Energy Correction for the Soul, by clicking here : http://www.crystal-vaastu.com/crystal_karma_gate_24.htm.

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By Krupa Darshna

In the previous issue we discussed karma and the importance of creating Sat Karma in one?s life. We touched upon the three ways of generating Sat Karma: physical, psychological and spiritual. In this issue we shall take up the physical Sat Karma.

Since the physical dimension primarily deal with words and action, it follows that physical Sat Karma is composed of right speech and right action. Physical Sat Karma is the positive karma that one earns through right words and action.

Let us look at right speech first. In order to understand the term ?Right Speech? one must first know what the wrong speech is. Words that hurt are ?Wrong Speech?. Consciously or unconscious, we often tend to use words that cause hurt or pain. Right words are those who do not hurt. Sometimes good intentions are not matched by right words. A good purpose must also be accompanied by right words. Sweet words soothe the soul and create joy. A kind word at the right time can be a great help in times of crisis.

We speak, from birth until death. We may or may not be conscious of what we speak. Nevertheless each word we utter has a vibration and frequency to it. Whether the vibration is positive or negative depends upon the intent and content of our speech. As with action so it is with our words. This is the law of karma. ?You reap what you sow, but many times over?.

The use of abusive and spiteful language, gossip or lies, are all ?wrong speech?. Ever so often, when under stress. We say things that we do not mean, without any ill will. But such word wound. The consequence of angry, incorrect speech is wonderfully illustrated by the following story.

There was once a little boy with a bad temper. ?Take this bag of nails?. Said the ill-tempered boy?s father to him one day, ?and every time you lose your temper hammer one of these nails into that fence behind your house.

By the end of the first day he had driven thirty-seven nails into the fence. Gradually, however, as the physical effort of hammering nails began to get him, the number of nails that where driven into the fence each day dwindled. Before long the boy had discovered that it was less burdensome to hold his cool than to drive all those obstinate nails into the fence.

Inevitably, the day dawned when the boy did not loose his temper at all.

I?m not angry anymore, Papa!

Very well, then ! Why don?t you pull one nail out for every day that you can hold your temper?.

And then one day the nails on the fence where all gone.

Now the father took his son?s hand and let him to the fence.

?You have done well, my son. But look at all those holes in the fence. This fence will never be the same again. That?s how it is, when you say things in anger. Those nasty words leaves scars, like the ones in his face. Put a knife in a man and draw it out ? it doesn?t matter how many times you apologize afterwards, that wound is going to stay there!

A verbal wound is as bad as a physical one.

Now, about spearing the truth. There are accessions when we feel constrained to utter lies, If only to make someone happy, or because the lie would benefit someone. But there can be no licence for falsehood. It is necessary to stick to the truth as far as possible. The strongest argument in favour of speaking the truth is that one does not have to try and recall everything that has been sad. If you lie you must constantly remember what you have said, and that can be great burden.

Remember that it is all right to be tough, but not rough. Harshness in speech is best avoided. Wrong speech and gossiping creates a negative frequency, attracting negative situations and people around one. There was this lady in Mumbai who was very fond of criticizing other?s daughter?s. She would always speak negativity about them and spread rumours about them. But then she never realized that karma is the greatest judge. A day came when her daughter ran away with a boy from their colony creating a great scandal for her family.

Harsh, abusive language, leads to physiological imbalances, which manifest as health problems.

Sri Bhagavan says. ?The external word is a reflection of the world within?.

To understand this, constantly review life. And contemplate upon the situations that you face. Being aware and relating to the occurrences in our lives help us recognize the correlation or our speech and the situation that we are confronted with.

Right action consists of deeds that sacred, and do not wound otters. The essence of right action is ?do unto otters, as you would have them do to you, and not do unto others what you would not have them do unto you?

There is this famous story of a man who was vexed of taking care of his old father. So one fine day he decided to bury his father alive. He then took his father and his young son for company and went to a secluded place and started digging. The digging when on for a long time. His young son was watching with great curiosity, and asked, ?father what are you doing ? ?The father say? Son, your grandpa has become old and useless. Hence I am going to bury him so that need not be burdened any more with with?. The some listens and then goes a feet away and starts digging too. The father then is curios and asks him what is he doing. The son says, ?Father, now grandpa has to wait for such a long time, as you are digging. I am digging right now so that you don?t have to wait when I come to bury you when you get old

Would you want other to hurt you ? would you want others to behave badly with you ? If not there cannot be any justification for your acting in such a manner as to hurt another. And if you do hurt others then again Karma would be the judge. A lady was very cruel to her mother in law and ill-treated her to a great extent. The mother in law unable to bear the torture ran away from the house. Even the other children of the old lady did not brother in law is in great love and affection is divorced and she almost hates her mother and blames her for her suffering.

Hence we must always remember the karmic laws and live in awareness. Creating Sat Karma through our words and action will definitely reap its fruits, maybe immediately, maybe sometimes it might be delayed. But then the fruits will definitely come into our lives as solutions to problems or timely help from people or just a smooth and hassle free life.

To conclude then, the keys to right speech and right action are-

1. Being aware of yourself- your words and your actions.

2. seeking forgiveness of hose you have hurt through wrong speech or action..

3. Always speaking and acting consciously.

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By Krupa Darshna

Karma is the most widely used term in popular spirituality (with an exception of Semitic religions; Christianity, Judaism and Islam). Karma is believed to decide ones progress or failure both in the material as well as spiritual spheres, in terms of health, wealth and even attainment of enlightenment. Karma is one of the cosmic or natural laws governing the universe. Though cosmic laws cannot be defined and can only be understood through application and observation, we will try to define it as much as possible.

A cosmic law Karma literally means action, whether good or bad, right or wrong. When it comes to spirituality we define it as the fruit of our actions.

What is karma and why the laws of karma? Is it a mechanical process to enforce order in the world? What is the order it seeks to establish?

The intrinsic nature of all living phenomena is to give, to offer, to sacrifice itself for another cause. This is what we observe in nature. The nature of the universe is compassion. This natural compassion, maintains harmony in the universe. Compassion is the order of this universe. When any living being or living species have deviated from this order, the law is enforced to re-establish this order. Karma is a conspiracy to awaken heart.

“The nature of the universe is compassion.”

Karma is a living law and therefore its nature ought to be compassion. It is not a punisher but a teacher. It teaches through life experiences, although one needs to be perceptive to learn. It teaches a person to love, to be compassionate and vulnerable. When we have learnt the lessons that karma intends to teach us; when our lives have fallen into universal order of compassion, there is no need for the conspiracy anymore.

Each time you think (perceive), speak and act, you are setting into motion the laws of karma. You are planting a seed. The kind of seed you have sown is the nature of the sought, word and action you set in motion; fear, hate, judgement, love, blessing, anger, joy etc. And every time you think and act similarly you are nourishing the seed. The seed eventually grows to a big tree bearing tons of fruits. This is the consequence, your reward or punishment, however one likes to perceive it. You are hated, judged, loved, blessed many times over depending on what the seed contained when it was first sown. You reap what you sow many times over.

You are a creator We are the architects of our life. Unfortunately we are not perceptive enough to see the relationship between the sought and the deed. Perhaps the time lapse between the two is sometimes too much for us to keep a track. From thought to deed, it may take a week, a month, a year, a decade or more. Constant review of our life will help us to see the connection. The speed of reciprocation depends upon the evolution of the individual. Sometimes reaching the threshold could mean a life time or more. If we do not get answers to our questions even after examining our lives in the light of the cosmic principles, only the theory of reincarnation can explain the rest.

“You reap what you sow many times over”

The whole process of thought materializing into deed is a karmic cycle. Our life is a flow of karma. An awareness of these eternal laws gives us the power to alter the course of karma, but not in the midst of the karmic cycle. We have the power of wisdom and the choice of freewill to review and make changes in our life but not before the cycle comes to an end. A frog in midair cannot alter the course of its flight. Yet, on landing it can choose the direction of its next leap.

However we have already seen that karma is not a judge but rather a teacher. Therefore even in the midst of a cycle, if one can learn their lessons the karmic cycle is altered. The lessons are learnt through an intense awareness of ones thought patterns, which are creating such life situations. As one becomes aware, there is a sense of acute helplessness. In this state of helplessness, there is divine intervention and grace alters the karmic cycle. This kind of liberation is possible only through Divine Grace and not through any kind of human effort. The other alternative to liberation is through creating Sat Karma, which will be explained later on.

The self Life is a process of learning and karma is the greatest teacher. But then a question arises; “Why is learning such a painful process?”

The self, which has acquired such prominence in today’s world, and all the self centred activity born there of go against the order of compassion. Man lost the faculty of feeling and this is a potential danger to the harmony of the world. Loss of feeling also means loss of responsibility. So nature is conspiring to break the self in order to create a compassionate world. The word compassion originates from the word passion, and passion means pain. Compassion means, “that which has risen from pain”. We cause pain to others because we just cannot perceive the pain we are causing to them, although we try to guess it and feel guilty later on.

“Karma is a conspiracy to awaken heart”

Feeling guilty does not make us responsible, it only causes more pain. A suffering man only causes suffering to others. When we are subjected to the same pain that we have caused others, there is every chance that we will not repeat the same mistake. You now know how it feels to have caused pain. You are going to think twice, you will grow to empathize with others. You naturally become more compassionate and responsible. These are the ways of karma; by causing pain, it removes pain.

Sat Karma (good deeds) Now that we have understood what karma is and why there is karma, let us see why Kalki, the founder of The Golden Age Foundation, emphasize on creating sat karma (sat karma = good deeds).

“A frog in midair cannot alter the course of its flight”

In Bhagavad-Gita Sri Krishna says; “Do your actions without expecting the fruits of it”. But Kalki differs here and says that “Think, speak and do only such actions that create good karma”. Why is such importance being given to creating sat karma? Let us see a story that illustrates the importance of creating sat karma.

Once upon a time there lived a pundit in a village. One day he suddenly had an urge to attain God and hence decided to renounce all his worldly possessions and go into the jungles to perform tapas (penance) to attain God realization. As he steps out to leave, the goddess Lakshmi, appears in front of him and says that she is entering his life and from then on all luck will be in his favour. He tells the goddess that he has nothing to gain from luck as he is renouncing the world. But then the goddess insists that she has to enter as it was destined to be so. The pundit agrees to this but makes a request that as she entered his life after telling him, the same way she must also let him know when she is departing. The goddess agrees to this. Now luck is with him.

He continues his journey. Half way through he meets the king’s messengers who say that the king has sent word for him to be his guru and advisor. The pundit is surprised at the turns of events. He reaches the kingdom and is received with great honour by the king. The pundit is in doubt and has a desire to test as to whether luck is really with him or not. So he thinks of dragging the king down from the throne. Everybody is stunned and angry. But as luck is favouring him, the dome above the throne cracks and fall exactly on the throne missing the king. Everybody including the king is thrilled and thankful that he has saved the kings life. But then he is still not satisfied.

That night he enters the king’s chamber where the king is fast asleep. He just lifts the cot and topples the king down. As the soldiers come to give him a lashing, they see a snake come out of the bed and he is again saved. Now the pundit is convinced about the luck favouring him and repents for all this actions and is truly transformed. After a long period one day he is sitting under a mango tree meditating. Goddess Lakshmi manifests and tell him that she has come to take leave of him. His time is up. He prostrates before her and thanks her. The king then comes and asks him for teaching and Sadhanas (spiritual practice). To this the pundit said, “go and perform this puja (ritual) and then come to learn from me”. Saying so, he gives a mango as prasad (offering).

Unfortunately the mango had a poison of a snake, which had bitten it. So when the king eats the mango after the offering ritual he dies. And now the pundit is punished for what he had not done.

What does one understand from this story? As long as you have good karma everything goes well. The moment good karma is exhausted you starts to suffer. That means that we need to keep creating good karma. It means that we need to think, speak and do only such actions that give joy to others and not pain. Otherwise its like the bank balance being empty and we are in debt.

How to create Sat Karma

There are three types of Karma; physical, psychological and spiritual and hence three ways of creating sat karma.

Physical Sat Karma Physical sat karma is earned through words and actions. Many a times consciously or unconsciously we tend to use words that hurt or gives pain to others.

Right words are words that do not pain others. Sometimes there might be good intent but the words might be harsh. A good intent must be matched by the right words. Words must be sweet and must soothe the soul and create joy. Even a kind word at the right time can be of immense help to a depressed person. Right actions are basically actions that are sacred and do not hurt others.

Psychological Sat Karma Psychological Sat Karma is earned by right thoughts and emotions. Many a times one tends to feel that I am not doing any harm to anybody, but within my mind I have the freedom to think, as I want.

“By causing pain, karma removes pain”

The realm of thought is very powerful. Hence having right thoughts are very important. Here the question arises that many a times one doesn’t want to think negatively but is nevertheless plagued by negative thoughts and emotions. What must one do then? Kalki just advice us to be intensively aware of the thoughts and emotions, without attempting to pull or push the thoughts away. The Sadhanas (spiritual practice like meditation) in itself will help in creating Sat Karma.

Spiritual Sat Karma Helping yourself and others to grow spiritually creates spiritual Sat Karma. Doing spiritual Sadhanas, applying teachings, praying for yourself and others, teaching others the path of spirituality and helping them to grow spirituality, chanting mantras etc, are all ways and means to earn spiritual sat karma. Our spiritual sat karma helps us to progress on the spiritual plane, opens the doors of grace for us and ultimately also leads us to enlightenment.

Therefor, one must consciously strive to create sat karma.

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