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| How to consciously engage with your karma |
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Sandie Gustus |
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How to consciously engage with your karma
© Sandie Gustus
We none of us have any greater chance of escaping our karma than we have of escaping death. It’s one of only a very few things that we can count on in our lives, both current and future … an inevitability for every single human being regardless of credence, color or merit, without exception.
In light of this fact, we have much to gain from increasing our knowledge and understanding of the laws of karma. By being better informed, we can start to consciously engage with our own karma, and transform it from something that ‘happens’ to us over which we feel we have no control, to something that we drive ourselves.
For those who are not already familiar with the concept, karma is the law of cause and effect, or action and reaction. Simply put, every action has a consequence. Karma is not, however, about punishment or reward, or judgment of any kind.
The karmic consequences of our decisions, choices and actions are often not apparent in one lifetime but are played out over a series of future physical incarnations.
There are three different types of karma:
Egokarma
A person’s egokarma consists of the actions and reactions relating only to himself or herself, so is a personal karmic account. For example, if I eat and rest well, exercise, and generally take care of my physical and psychological well-being, I will be healthy. If I lead a sedentary lifestyle, smoke two packets of cigarettes every day of my adult life and eat nothing but processed foods with a high fat and sugar content, I will not be healthy. Is your egokarmic account balance positive or negative?
Groupkarma
Taking into consideration the fact that when we die, we continue to exist in a non-physical state in a dimension more subtle than the physical dimension, each of us belongs to a large group of people that includes both family, other relatives, friends and colleagues etc. that includes both living beings and others who are currently in this non-physical state between lives. Groupkarma therefore, is the karmic account we have with all the people with whom we have formed a relationship (as opposed to a mere acquaintance), in this life or in previous lives. We end up living a greater number of existences with these individuals due to factors such as shared ideas, ideologies, history, energetic affinities, and natural rapport etc. so our karma becomes intertwined with theirs. Groupkarma is unavoidable as during our existence on earth, human beings depend on others to survive, notably up until the age of five.
Sometimes we see or hear of circumstances in which a person cannot get out of his group … because if he tries to leave he will be killed. Some mafia and terrorist organizations, drug and prostitution rings, and other criminal networks subscribe to this code of behaviour. When this happens, the person wanting to get out is entrapped by the unethical principles and actions of the group and is just starting to pay back the karmic debt he incurred by participating in the destructive activities of his group. Many lives may pass before the karmic debt has been recovered or rebalanced and he is free of his group. During this time and in order to repay the debt, he will be a victim of his group and later, help others who are victims of the same group.
When you are a victim of your group, there are many possible ways that you might pay back your karmic debt. E.g. a person who was a drug dealer in one life might suffer as a result of drugs in a future life. He might become a drug addict himself; he might, as a passer-by and through an apparent synchronicity, get caught up in street crime or other violence related to drugs that he has nothing to do with, and get hurt or killed; perhaps a son or daughter in a future life might share a needle once with a drug user and contract the HIV virus; or could suffer at the hands of one of his previous victims.
So there are many different and complex ways in which a person can settle his or her karmic debt. The link is not always so obvious or direct.
As we progress through the stages of group karma we eventually free ourselves of our commitments or responsibilities to our group and eventually, we apply our time to developing and improving ourselves. When we progress to the stage where we apply our time to help others to similarly develop themselves, we open our polykarmic account.
Polykarma
Polykarma, therefore, refers to the karmic account of an individual in relation to all other beings, including those who are physically alive and those who are currently existing in a non-physical incarnation between lives. Polykarma relates to an event in which our actions reach and affect people that we don’t know, and on a large scale. People such as Gandhi and Einstein opened their polykarmic accounts. Others, such as Hitler, Saddam Hussein and bin Laden, each of whom has been responsible for the deaths of thousands of people, have polykarmic karmic accounts that are heavily in debt.
Every physical individual has his egokarmic and groupkarmic accounts open from the moment he takes his first breath on earth. Only a small minority of people, however, have their polykarmic accounts open.
Knowing what we now know about egokarma, groupkarma and polykarma, (which when considered together are known as holokarma, from the Greek holos meaning whole), what practical steps can we take to improve our holokarma?
On the egokarmic level, look after yourself well by making sure that all your needs are met on the physical, emotional and mental levels. To improve your groupkarma, strive to have a clear conscience with regards to all of your relationships - take steps to eliminate or avoid any misunderstandings, resentments, sorrows or hurts; stop victimizing others or playing the victim. To open your polykarmic account, do good works of assistance to help not only your friends and family, but strangers – people that you don’t know – and as many of them as possible.
In this way, we start to take responsibility for and improve our own karma, and to see it as an important influence in our lives over which we can exercise some control rather than as an unseen force of which we are but random victims.
REFERENCE
Vieira W., “Projectiology,” Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2002)
More information:
Sandie Gustus has been an instructor and volunteer at the London office of the International Academy of Consciousness (IAC) since 2003. For details of IAC courses, including free introductory seminars and the Consciousness Development Program, or information on IAC books and videos, Email: london@iacworld.org; Tel: 020 7723 0544 or visit: www.iacworld.org
First published in Vision magazine (U.K.) Issue 5, 2005 |
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