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PHILOSOPHY OF SOUL
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WHEN SINS OR EVIL KARMAS ARE MANIFESTED?
You get nervous, you are worried and begin to lament when sins are unfolded and chains of miseries befall you one after the other. Then you blame others for your condition but why do you not realise that these are your own creations. The sins or evil acts which you contracted in the previous existence have begun to unfold themselves and so this has been your plight. Other persons are only instrumental. What purpose can be served by blaming them? Suppose, you strike your head against a pole on your way and then you blame saying: "Oh, pole, why did you strike against me?" Do you quarrel with the pole? You were negligent in walking so you smashed yourself. Negligently contracted Karmas in the previous existence bring about clash and conflicts with other persons in this world.
When a sinful act contracted by you out of ignorance is being unfolded then endure the results patiently and calmly. If you become nervous, worried or highly agitated you will further contract a series of Karmas on the contrary and your future security will be put to peril. Remember that what you suffer shall be deducted from your total awards of Karmas. At the same time, be scrupulous not to contract new Karmic bonds. Some saint declared: "If we are vigilant on the eve of contracting Karmas, then bonds will be loose not rigid and they might even confer blessed results, the evil rewards conferred would not be too bitter". Therefore, if you avoid passions and attachment to your best, engrossed in devotions of the Lord in His meditation with mental purity equipped with full consciousness, then you will not have to worry when Karmas are unfolded.
Remember that the soul is possessed of the power of converting good into evil and evil into good. The Karmic molecules themselves do not possess such power.
Astrology has specifically dealt with the omens exhaustively. Omens cannot bestow upon us pains and pleasures. They only indicate them. Omens enjoy the most prominent position among the indications. Even in the most auspicious hours if you meet with an evil omen you refrain from launching upon a new venture. The authors of the sacred scriptures say: "One should wait till eight breathings are completed when a bad omen occurs for the first time. Then one should proceed further. If the bad omen
