Book Title: Journey to Enlightenment Part 01
Author(s): Chitrabhanu, Chetana Catherine Florida, Nirmala Hanke, Raksha Penni Helsene
Publisher: Create Space
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Winter 2003:
Our Place in the Universe: Part III Our Karmas, Our Quest
A person who always helps somebody out of compassion and love acquires pleasure producing karmas. Wherever that person takes birth, pleasure from all sides comes to him or her. Such a person is invited and received with joy.
On the other hand, someone who goes on hating and hurting people, someone who does not build understanding relationships with living beings builds pain-producing or bliss-obscuring karmas. Wherever he goes, people feel a kind of repulsion for him. Now the person may be doing the best he can for mankind, but because in the past he did not care for anyone or share what he had with others, now people do not give him a good reception.
In addition, a person who not only harms but who takes life irreverently, such as a man who goes fishing, hunting, torturing, receives not only pain-producing karmas but also age-determining karmas. Such results come because he has caused pain to living beings. Longevity comes to him or her who lets others live in peace.
If you are born with a beautiful bodily form and make fun of someone who has not received physical beauty, the pain you create in that person's life with words, gestures, jokes, laughter, or disgust is an invitation to vibrations for deformities which bring physical-making karmas.
If you observe yourself and find a physical lack, then you can tell yourself: “Somewhere I have made fun of somebody. At that time I was not aware of what I was doing. Because of ignorance I went on causing pain to somebody. What I have now is the result of a feeling, gesture, vibration which I sent and which became concretized”.
You were born to certain parents. Why? It shows some previous vibrations. You have chosen them or they have chosen you. Depending on the previous relationship, it will be a superior or inferior heredity, caused by what are called heredity-determining karmas. If the previous bond was painful, then you have come to cancel or undo the wrong, or you have come to allow the parents to experience and erase their past vibrations.
Deeds, Dreams, Motives
Most important is to know your deeds, dreams and motives. That is the clay which you use to compose your life. It is on the basis of our unique idea, speech, action that you select a family, that family whose genes will permit you to express your best dream. Therein lies your unique temperament, nature, character, growth pattern. That is why in the whole of the universe you will not find a single carbon copy of yourself.
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