Karma helps in spiritual growth as it helps our soul
understand the cause and effect relationships between the kind of energies it
creates and the kinds of energies it attracts.
It makes our soul realize that if it makes another soul feel like a
victim, it has to undergo the same feeling itself at some point .In this
process, our soul is forced to learn its soul lessons, and evolve emotionally
upwards on the soul dimensional scale.
Negative karma gets created when the
soul is unable to pass a soul test or learn a soul lesson.
A negative karmic debt is like a mistake
committed while giving a test which has to be rectified in order to pass the
test with good grades. When our soul does not learn its soul lessons, we create
negative energy in place of the positive energy we would have created by
passing the soul test. An erring soul, i.e. the soul who creates negative karma
is said to sin.
Sinning or making mistakes is not an
insurmountable crime from the soul’s perspective, for which one has to suffer
in hell for eternity!
Our soul learns by making mistakes. When we
sin to feel happy and do not become happy with the outcome we manifest, we
realize overtime that our method was not the right one for achieving happiness.
Hence, committing a sin is like falling
on a step while trying to climb up the ladder of soul evolution to reach a
higher level of happiness. We may lose balance in our hurry to go
up fast but we cannot stop moving up because we fell on the way.
Metaphorically, if we compare a young soul
to a toddler, then a soul sins in the same way as the toddler falls while
learning to walk. It is with experience that the toddler attains its balance of
walking.
Similarly, it is with evolution that the
soul understands which of its acts create positive energy for itself at the
soul level, and which acts create negative energy.
The toddler cries because it gets hurt
while falling in the process of learning to walk. It gets hurt because it has
not yet learnt to walk.
But, the toddler’s suffering continues only
until it masters the art of walking, as once it knows how to walk, it does not
need to fall.
Also, feeling positive by feeling
loved and encouraged plays a very important role in healing the toddler’s hurt
while it learns to walk. The toddler gets comforted when it falls by loving
adults around it.
Similarly, our soul suffers if it sins or
makes mistakes in the process of finding ways to achieve its desired purpose of
life.
Our soul’s suffering continues only until
it learns how to achieve the desired happiness while feeling positive with the
method chosen, because when we grasp the right balance, we learn how to walk
with stability without tripping on short cuts.
Energies multiply by being focused upon and
when we focus on feeling the joy of work and being loved while being success
-oriented, we multiply the positivity in our lives.
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How can we prevent the need
to sin?
Essentially, to prevent our need to take
actions which we consider as sinful, it is necessary to understand the
feeling behind a desire than focus on the external form of the desire.
Desire comes from the soul level and has to
be understood from that level, itself and not purely from an external, physical
or materialistic level.
For example, it is important to know that
we desire money to attain happiness in some material form through it. Instead
of desiring money only for the sake of it, we need to be aware that our core
intention is to be happy from the money we receive. And happiness may not come
in only by earning money, buying goods or cars or jewels.
It would come in when we feel happy with
the choices we make in life because energies within our mind multiply to create
our future. If we don’t feel happy within our mind, our external joys or
successes will not help us de-stress.
Happiness usually entails feeling loved
or desired. Earning money by sinful means, or eating extra fatty foods or
indulging in loveless sex or in drugs or alcohol excessively may not compensate
for not feeling loved and accepted.
That is why we sometimes subconsciously say
we are sinning when we eat fatty foods because we know that they lead us to
feel unhealthier than satisfied over the day. Whenever we devolve instead of
evolving, we say we are sinning because our conscience kicks us from within and
stress rises.
By understanding that we feel happy
when we feel loved or appreciated, we become aware that our soul desire is to
feel appreciated through any actions we take. If our actions do not make us
feel loved from within, as souls, they do not help our soul feel positive.
We would feel happy only if we do not feel
more negative /unloved while doing that act. Otherwise, the negative energy
focused upon would multiply more than happiness.
Like, a prostitute may use her
body to earn money but she may not feel happy by having sex without feeling
loved. She may feel used and thrown, and hence, the money she earns may not
compensate for her loss of happiness.
To prevent the need to sin, it is important
to choose the path of work carefully such as to ensure that the intention
behind working creates more happiness for self and others than the negative
energy emanating as a result of having to work.
If we are compromising ourselves in the
work we do or in the relationships we are in, we sin/devolve our soul frequency
out of fear of survival. Just as eating pizza only satisfies immediate hunger
but does not help in losing weight or in keeping the body healthy, work done to
cool down immediate pressures may not help in achieving the soul’s purpose of
incarnation.
Any advanced soul realizes that taking
shortcuts to happiness creates more negative energy than positive in the long
run, but the young, inexperienced soul does not.
Like the toddler, the young soul loses its
balance and falls often. Had Dev realized that killing his king for money could
not help him buy happiness, he would not have killed. Instead, he would have
focused on finding a better route to manifest his desires. By killing for
money, he not only lost his life but also got caught in a negative loop of
getting betrayed for life-times.
The process of soul evolution takes its
course, like physical maturation does. Just as a toddler can only be supported
while learning to walk but cannot be forced into learning quickly, a soul
cannot be forced into evolving.
When the toddler reaches the right
maturational age and physical fitness level, it starts walking, without
falling, automatically. It intrinsically does not lose balance anymore.
Similarly, the soul experiences trial and
error situations, usually, over several life-times before learning how to
achieve its purpose of life without creating negative karma. Thus, in the
process of repaying karma, or learning from mistakes, our soul becomes
advanced.
• Karma
forms the syllabus of a life-time
Diane Stein, the author of ‘Essential
Energy Balancing’, writes - ‘Karma is pain carried over lifetimes. It is
woven into our mind-grid when the soul plans birth in a human body. It forms
the belief system the person is born with and which needs to be changed or
evolved as part of soul evolution. Each incarnation gives the soul a chance to
experience, grow and learn in a different physical body. Karmic patterns carry
over several life-times, circumstances and situations, till the negative energy
is transcended into positive.’
Thus, karma forms the syllabus of a life-time.
It decides the kind of negative emotions we, as souls, want to overcome in one
life-time. Just as a course syllabus entails the subjects and the problems the
student has to understand to move to a higher grade, our soul’s life plan
entails the kind of emotional lessons of maturity it needs to imbibe, to
understand happiness.
A pattern of recurring problems is usually,
karmic, as they occur due to the soul testing itself. If the soul is unable to
learn the lessons in that life, the test passes to the next life.
When the soul is able to use a
difficulty as a means of evolving to a higher level of consciousness, it
succeeds in transcending its karmic debt into positive energy.
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