Karma the Mechanism

Author(s): Hermann Kuhn
Publisher: Crosswind Publishing Germany

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SUTRAS
ATTRACTION TO KARMA
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potential inherent within us. It further describes extraordinary dimensions which human endeavor hardly ever attempted to venture into. This concept is called 'Karma'.
Now, - apart from the obvious misconceptions about this term that have been dealt with in THE MYSTERY, - most people picture karma as a rather abstract function of their life. We tend to regard karma as something foreign, as some separate and alien component we feel only a distant and rather fuzzy link to.
Yet there is nothing abstract, foreign or vague about karma. We find its expressions and effects right in our everyday existence. Karma is nothing other than our very emotional attachment to the 'themes' or features of our life we feel - positively or negatively - attracted to. Karma is essentially the material carrier of our desire to physically experience this world.
There is a fundamental difference between our consciousness and karma. Consciousness - that what is alive within us - is independent of any physical carrier. Karma on the other hand is a kind of subtle matter that surrounds our consciousness in a similar way as our body surrounds it with physical matter. When these two components - consciousness and karma - mix together, we experience life as we know it at present. Yet as long as we remain unaware of the mechanisms that govern the interactions of these two components, we will experience that our actions often produce unexpected or undesired results.:
We do have the ability and power to control all interaction between karma and consciousness. Once we become aware of their mechanisms, we can easily stop the erratic results the random mixing of these two components often generates. We then gain access to far more efficient ways of using our awareness, far greater freedom of action and growing insight into the real functioning of our life.
Sutra 1 to 9 explain how we attract karmic matter to our consciousness. Sutra 10 to 27 illustrates with a number of concise examples how our consciousness and karmic matter interact with each other.