35.
Why you can never get away with anything
NOTE: This
is an excerpt from the book The
Least You Should Know About Life.
The karma you make with yourself will stay with you and affect you all
the time, yet many people do not notice this effect because they have
become numb to it, as one can become numb to pain. The karma you make
with others will return to you according to certain cycles, and for
a time it will seem like nothing is happening. The numbness and the
cyclical return of karma is what makes it possible for people to deny
the reality of karma because it seems like you can harm yourself or
others and get away with it. One of the most persuasive illusions generated
by the way the material universe works is that you can escape the consequences
of your actions.
One of the primary psychological blocks that prevents people from accepting
a spiritual outlook on life is that they do not want to accept full
responsibility for their actions. They do not want to acknowledge that
you can never get away with anything. As the Bible says, “God
is not mocked, for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap”
(Galatians 6:7). Or as physicists put it, “Every action has an
opposite and equally strong reaction.” There is no action without
a reaction and thus no action without consequences.
Being a spiritually awakened person means that you accept responsibility
for your past actions and beliefs. While this might at first seem like
a burden, it is the only way to achieve spiritual growth and it is also
incredibly empowering. Once you realize that your circumstances in life
are to a very large degree shaped by your karma and beliefs from the
past, you can begin to take action to resolve the self-destructive beliefs
and neutralize the karma. Take note that karma from the past must cycle
through the four levels of the material universe before it manifests
as a physical event. Thus, if you neutralize the karma at the identity,
mental or emotional level, you can avoid experiencing physical consequences.
Another very persuasive illusion in the material world is that you are
powerless to rise above your past. Your ego wants you to believe that
once you have made certain mistakes, you can never rise above them.
Once you have sinned, you are doomed forever. Yet the central message
of all true spiritual teachings is that there is nothing in the material
realm that is permanent, and thus nothing in this world can affect you
forever. Everything is energy, and the material world is made from energy
of a lower vibration than the spiritual realm. This has two major consequences:
-
Nothing you do in this
world can destroy your spiritual identity. Thus, you can never lose
your potential to reclaim your spiritual identity. Even your conscious
self cannot be permanently affected by anything in the material
world. Your conscious self is what it thinks it is, but it can change
its thinking at any moment. Even though you may have built a limited
sense of identity over many lifetimes, you can rise above that sense
of identity by purifying your four lower bodies of destructive beliefs.
- Nothing in this world
is permanent, meaning that any mistake you could possibly have made
can be undone. The energies in the material world are lower than the
energies in the spiritual world. Your mind can be the open door for
a stream of spiritual energy to flow into the material world. When
your conscious self invokes and directs such energy, it can transform
or purify the misqualified energy you have created in this and past
lifetimes. Thus, you can free yourself from both the karma you have
made with others and the karma you have made with yourself. Even though
you may have generated much negative karma in past lifetimes, you
can transform it by using proper spiritual techniques, as will be
explained later.
Take note
that there is an enemy outside yourself who wants to control you and
there is an enemy within – the ego – who wants to control
you. The primary weapon used by both enemies is the belief that you
cannot overcome your mistakes. Yet as has been seen, any mistake you
make is the result of a destructive belief in one of your four lower
bodies. And there is nothing in this world that can prevent your conscious
self from dismissing the erroneous belief and replacing it with true
knowledge. No force in this world can prevent you from changing your
mind—unless you let it.
Your mistaken beliefs have caused you to generate imperfect energy,
but energy can always be transformed into another form of energy. Denying
this potential is simply denying the facts of life demonstrated by physical
science. Thus, no force in this world can prevent you from transforming
the negative energy—unless you let it.
36.
How to rise above your past
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