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ocean ever in ebb and flow, like the season's movement the universe is accurate. What appears to us as accidental has some cause behind it. It is not a creation of a whim or a fancy. It is a law. It has its law. We grow what we sow. We get what we give. It echoes what we speak.
What we have to understand is that for countless life-times this living sentient self-energy went on evolving, taking on and letting off different kinds of matter, as a process of life, without awareness. Then there came a time when it started taking on matter of awareness. At that time we started deciding our form, our intelligence, our condition, our every characteristic.
The procedure is this: in a state of repulsion or attraction, we send our vibrations which are either negative or positive, and we are reborn in such a way as to experience those same vibrations we sent out previously. We receive from the universe on the level of our awareness or consciousness. If we have sent our negative-violent vibrations in thought, speech, or action to someone else, we will experience that pain which we have caused. If we have sent our positive vibrations, we receive them back in a kind of echo.
Vibrational Echo & Karmas
The vibration echo comes back and draws to us particles of matter which create a structure or shell-like form around the soul. These particles we call karmas.
The vibrations we sent may be from lifetimes ago, from years ago, or from yesterday, but having sent them they have started working on us. Because of those vibrational echoes, there are karmic effects on relationships.
In the living present lies our challenge, our work or hope for spiritual growth. There are ties which are already formed with our own past vibrations; these we can work with -- fulfilling them, undoing them, bringing them to completion.
In what way is the present living? How is it that we can say that everything is possible in the present? Because karmas built by living life have the capacity to be evaporated or transmuted by living vibrations. You can use positive living vibrations to extinguish the smoldering embers of old negative ones. You can upgrade your present life by erasing your past with responsible, kind vibrations.
This we experience in our meditation. It is not an intellectual experience.
Vibrations must be experienced, not explained. For example, as soon as a mother conceives, she starts feeling love. Parents are ready to part with their fortune for a new-born stranger. Seeing someone, you are ready to die for that person. Meeting someone in an airport, you become in a matter of minutes closer to that friend than you are even to members of your own family. Why? What is that which brings together and what is that which separates? It
132 - Journey to Enlightenment
| SR No. | 006996 |
| Book Title | Journey to Enlightenment Part 01 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Chitrabhanu, Chetana Catherine Florida, Nirmala Hanke, Raksha Penni Helsene |
| Publisher | Create Space |
| Publication Year | 2008 |
| Total Pages | 142 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 4 MB |