Padmanabhan Janakiraman
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Is our Birth related to Previous Janma Karma?
One of the mysteries puzzling the human mind since the origin of mankind is the concept of “reincarnation” which literally means “to take on the flesh again.” As the civilizations evolved, beliefs got discriminated against and disseminated into various religions. The major division manifested was “East” and “West.” The eastern religions being more philosophical and less analytical, have accepted reincarnation. However, the different eastern religions like Hinduism, Jainism, and Buddhism have differed in their faith on rebirth. Further, the Islam as well as the most dominant religion of the world, Christianity, having its origin in the west, have largely denied reincarnation, though some sub-sects still show interest in it. Also many mystic and esoteric schools like theosophical society have their unique description on rebirth.
Being born into a rich family or as children of successful people alone is not necessarily the result of good past Karma. If being born into rich families were to be due to good past Karma, what about severely disabled or very sickly babies born to extremely rich parents and absolutely healthy babies born to parents living in abject poverty?
In Hinduism, in the holy book Rigveda, the oldest extant Indo-Aryan text, numerous references are made to rebirths. One verse says:
“Burn him not up, nor quite consume him, Agni: Let not his body or his skin be scattered. O Jatavedas, when thou hast matured him, then send him on his way unto the Fathers… let thy fierce flame, thy glowing splendour, burn him With thine auspicious forms, O Jatavedas, bear this man to the region of the pious. Again, O Agni, to the Fathers send him who, offered in thee, goes with our oblations. Wearing new life .
Psychiatrist Ian Stevenson, from the University of Virginia, is an authority in scientific research on reincarnation. He investigated many reports of young children who claimed to remember a past life. He conducted more than 2500 case studies over a period of 40 years and published 12 books, including Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation and Where Reincarnation and Biology Intersect. Stevenson methodically documented each child's statements and then identified the deceased person the child identified with, and verified the facts of the deceased person's life that matched the child's memory. He also matched birthmarks and birth defects to wounds and scars on the deceased, verified by medical records such as autopsy photographs, in Reincarnation and Biologym increase his offspring: Let him rejoin a body, Jatavedas.
Some skeptics, such as Paul Edwards, have analyzed many of these accounts, and called them anecdotal.
Objections to claims of reincarnation include the facts that the vast majority of people do not remember previous lives and there is no mechanism known to modern science that would enable a personality to survive death and travel to another body. Researchers such as Stevenson have acknowledged these limitations.
Being born into rich or poor families is only various stages in the process of one’s Karmic evolution. It is the past Karma of a person that determines the family and surroundings in which a baby is born and raised. Your present is the result of what you did in the past, and what you do today, will determine your future.
A person’s past Karma forms the home position or starting point of every Janma or ‘leg’ in their Karmic voyage towards attaining Supreme Consciousness. What one does with whatever one has been provided with by their destiny, solely remains with them and that depends on their own ‘Guna’ or nature and also on the steps one takes to alter those Gunas.
The ultimate results that people expect in return for whatever they do or aspire to do, apart from their natural desire to continue to live, are happiness and satisfaction, which are both nothing but states of their minds.
Whether it is winning a war or a game, acquiring large amounts of wealth, marrying the person one loves or buying the car one has always dreamed of, it is that special state of mind which is always the final goal behind every endeavor of man.
There are countless ways that people take in order to achieve a special state of mind, and they include performing noble deeds and also committing horrible acts that satisfy one’s pride. When the happiness achieved is due to noble thoughts, words and deeds that are in accordance with Dharma or due to Divine knowledge gained, there is further progress in one’s Karmic journey. However, when it is achieved by causing harm or through any Adharmic act, it locks a person in a vicious Karmic cycle that is difficult to break.
What really signifies good past Karma and good Karmic progress, is a person’s birth as an offspring of good people even if they are not rich, highly educated or well-placed in society. It is the past Karma of a person that automatically causes their birth in circumstances that, in some way or another, are favorable for their Karmic progression. This is also in the case of the birth of good people who might have inadvertently collected some negative Karma in their past Janmas due to which they are born into families undergoing challenging situations, but due to their Dharmic values and hard work, rise above the rest.
SBG 6:45
But, the Yogi who strives sincerely, is purified of all sins, and he is gradually perfected through many births and finally, he reaches the Supreme goal.
Past Karma cannot be altered, and therefore there is no point in thinking about why one is born into a rich family or into a poor one. Instead, being thankful for everything one has and being conscious of every new action is absolutely essential because, through every thought, word or deed of a person, they create new Karma which will determine their future both in the worldly as well as in the spiritual planes. What we are today is the result of our past Karma, and what we do today will create our future. Although all actions have reactions, the way to remain unaffected by them is to do everything as a sacrifice to Bhagavan Sri Krishna.
While discussing Karma, Sri Bhagavan said: “Karma has its fruit (phala). They are like cause and effect. The interrelation of a cause and its effect is due to a Sakti whom we call God. God is phala data (dispenser of fruit).
This life has been given to man to sort out the consequences of previous Karma deliberately done, in many past lives, as well as in the present life.
Man cannot be liberated, until and unless he has sorted out
and neutralized all effects of past and present Karma, and bringing
the Karmic balance to nil.
Karma is the action or activity, deliberately done, with
full knowledge and intention of the doer, and also in expectation of
certain results in consequences thereof. This kind of Karma binds
man to the causes and effects of the `Law of Karma'.
According to Karma theory positive actions results in one’s positive experience,
whereas negative action results in negative experience. The effects may be seen immediately or delayed as stated above. Sometimes the delay may be indefinite due to the intervention of God’s Grace.
(ABOVE VIEW MAY NOT BE ACCEPTABLE TO MANY.. )
Good Karma and bad Karma are independent of each other and will result in independent reaction; one can not compensate the other.
Source:tavamithramsarvada.
This Post is for sharing knowledge with no intention to violate any copyrights.
One of the mysteries puzzling the human mind since the origin of mankind is the concept of “reincarnation” which literally means “to take on the flesh again.” As the civilizations evolved, beliefs got discriminated against and disseminated into various religions. The major division manifested was “East” and “West.” The eastern religions being more philosophical and less analytical, have accepted reincarnation. However, the different eastern religions like Hinduism, Jainism, and Buddhism have differed in their faith on rebirth. Further, the Islam as well as the most dominant religion of the world, Christianity, having its origin in the west, have largely denied reincarnation, though some sub-sects still show interest in it. Also many mystic and esoteric schools like theosophical society have their unique description on rebirth.
Being born into a rich family or as children of successful people alone is not necessarily the result of good past Karma. If being born into rich families were to be due to good past Karma, what about severely disabled or very sickly babies born to extremely rich parents and absolutely healthy babies born to parents living in abject poverty?
In Hinduism, in the holy book Rigveda, the oldest extant Indo-Aryan text, numerous references are made to rebirths. One verse says:
“Burn him not up, nor quite consume him, Agni: Let not his body or his skin be scattered. O Jatavedas, when thou hast matured him, then send him on his way unto the Fathers… let thy fierce flame, thy glowing splendour, burn him With thine auspicious forms, O Jatavedas, bear this man to the region of the pious. Again, O Agni, to the Fathers send him who, offered in thee, goes with our oblations. Wearing new life .
Psychiatrist Ian Stevenson, from the University of Virginia, is an authority in scientific research on reincarnation. He investigated many reports of young children who claimed to remember a past life. He conducted more than 2500 case studies over a period of 40 years and published 12 books, including Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation and Where Reincarnation and Biology Intersect. Stevenson methodically documented each child's statements and then identified the deceased person the child identified with, and verified the facts of the deceased person's life that matched the child's memory. He also matched birthmarks and birth defects to wounds and scars on the deceased, verified by medical records such as autopsy photographs, in Reincarnation and Biologym increase his offspring: Let him rejoin a body, Jatavedas.
Some skeptics, such as Paul Edwards, have analyzed many of these accounts, and called them anecdotal.
Objections to claims of reincarnation include the facts that the vast majority of people do not remember previous lives and there is no mechanism known to modern science that would enable a personality to survive death and travel to another body. Researchers such as Stevenson have acknowledged these limitations.
Being born into rich or poor families is only various stages in the process of one’s Karmic evolution. It is the past Karma of a person that determines the family and surroundings in which a baby is born and raised. Your present is the result of what you did in the past, and what you do today, will determine your future.
A person’s past Karma forms the home position or starting point of every Janma or ‘leg’ in their Karmic voyage towards attaining Supreme Consciousness. What one does with whatever one has been provided with by their destiny, solely remains with them and that depends on their own ‘Guna’ or nature and also on the steps one takes to alter those Gunas.
The ultimate results that people expect in return for whatever they do or aspire to do, apart from their natural desire to continue to live, are happiness and satisfaction, which are both nothing but states of their minds.
Whether it is winning a war or a game, acquiring large amounts of wealth, marrying the person one loves or buying the car one has always dreamed of, it is that special state of mind which is always the final goal behind every endeavor of man.
There are countless ways that people take in order to achieve a special state of mind, and they include performing noble deeds and also committing horrible acts that satisfy one’s pride. When the happiness achieved is due to noble thoughts, words and deeds that are in accordance with Dharma or due to Divine knowledge gained, there is further progress in one’s Karmic journey. However, when it is achieved by causing harm or through any Adharmic act, it locks a person in a vicious Karmic cycle that is difficult to break.
What really signifies good past Karma and good Karmic progress, is a person’s birth as an offspring of good people even if they are not rich, highly educated or well-placed in society. It is the past Karma of a person that automatically causes their birth in circumstances that, in some way or another, are favorable for their Karmic progression. This is also in the case of the birth of good people who might have inadvertently collected some negative Karma in their past Janmas due to which they are born into families undergoing challenging situations, but due to their Dharmic values and hard work, rise above the rest.
SBG 6:45
But, the Yogi who strives sincerely, is purified of all sins, and he is gradually perfected through many births and finally, he reaches the Supreme goal.
Past Karma cannot be altered, and therefore there is no point in thinking about why one is born into a rich family or into a poor one. Instead, being thankful for everything one has and being conscious of every new action is absolutely essential because, through every thought, word or deed of a person, they create new Karma which will determine their future both in the worldly as well as in the spiritual planes. What we are today is the result of our past Karma, and what we do today will create our future. Although all actions have reactions, the way to remain unaffected by them is to do everything as a sacrifice to Bhagavan Sri Krishna.
While discussing Karma, Sri Bhagavan said: “Karma has its fruit (phala). They are like cause and effect. The interrelation of a cause and its effect is due to a Sakti whom we call God. God is phala data (dispenser of fruit).
This life has been given to man to sort out the consequences of previous Karma deliberately done, in many past lives, as well as in the present life.
Man cannot be liberated, until and unless he has sorted out
and neutralized all effects of past and present Karma, and bringing
the Karmic balance to nil.
Karma is the action or activity, deliberately done, with
full knowledge and intention of the doer, and also in expectation of
certain results in consequences thereof. This kind of Karma binds
man to the causes and effects of the `Law of Karma'.
According to Karma theory positive actions results in one’s positive experience,
whereas negative action results in negative experience. The effects may be seen immediately or delayed as stated above. Sometimes the delay may be indefinite due to the intervention of God’s Grace.
(ABOVE VIEW MAY NOT BE ACCEPTABLE TO MANY.. )
Good Karma and bad Karma are independent of each other and will result in independent reaction; one can not compensate the other.
Source:tavamithramsarvada.
This Post is for sharing knowledge with no intention to violate any copyrights.
