Deeper Insights on Karma Series Short Nithyananda Videos
Sadashiva samarambam shankaraacharya madhyamaam
Asmadaacharya paryanthaam vande guru paramparaam
The moment you started feeling you exist individually, from that moment pull this moment. Whatever ripple effects of actions created in you, sediments of the action waves happened in you, the impressions of the karmic effect happened in you, the vasanas and samskaras in you, all put together is called sanchita karma. Please understand I am talking about the three levels, three kinds of karma. This is called sanchita karma.
And second whatever karmas you decided to bring to express itself in your life, that part is called prarabdha karma. And whatever karmas you accumulate after you assume the body which you are having is called agamya karma.
Now Patanjali reveals an important sacred secret. prarabdha is not a quantity. I wanted you to understand this example of a dam. There is a huge dam. Whatever water being stored in the dam is sanchita. prarabdha is not whatever water getting released from the dam for irrigation. See if you think river as the life flow, all the water stored as agamya, we may think the water released from storage to the life from the time being is prarabdha . But Patanjali reveals a very important technical detail, the sacred secret - the water released is not prarabdha . The shape of the gateway where water getting released is prarabdha !
Understand there is a difference. This sutra says the karmas get active only in favorable conditions. It means all the water available in the storage sanchita is available to you. Then what becomes prarabdha, what expresses in this body, what expresses in this body is decided based on the conditions you create for yourself.
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Prarabdha if it is taken as the quantity of the karma you can’t change it. But Patanjali says very clearly it is not quantity of karma. It is the possibilities you create. That is where the freedom to alter your life comes in place.
Details
The talk
- Date
- 27 May 2011
- Place
- Raja Sabha, Bidadi ashram
- Language
- English
The recording
- Watch
- youtu.be/JS5aVpIsnHo](https://youtu.be/JS5aVpIsnHo)
- Published
- 4 June 2011
- Duration
- 7 min
The transcript
- Status
- Transcribed
- Time-synced
- Yes — 5 marks
- Length
- 328 words · 2 min read
- Topics
- None recorded