By George A. Boyd ©2000
Excepted from "On Karma"
The Primal Substance of the Unconscious
Karma is the primal substance of the unconscious mind. On the one hand,
it is the dynamic pressure of desires unfulfilled, of dreams unrealized,
the incompletion of the Soul's aeonic mission. This "unfinished business"
layers beneath the surface of consciousness. We feel it as tension and
discomfort, ever pressing upward into awareness, seeking to communicate
its wordless, primal cravings.
On the other hand, it is our potential for spiritual and personal growth.
We transmute the raw material of karma into wisdom, understanding and
virtue. We shape the inchaoate, amorphous mass of karma by the forces
of intelligence, imagination and will to create our lives, our character,
and develop our abilities on each Plane of Light.
We characterize four types of karma. These are shown below.
Type of Karma |
Content |
Potential |
Adi |
Unfinished noetic experience |
Spiritual evolutionary potential |
Kriyaman |
Incomplete action or communication, unfinished goals,
unexperienced consequence of past actions |
Potential love-wisdom-power |
Sinchit |
Attachment to objects of desire, expressed as craving,
passion, obsession or fantasy |
Potential virtue and Grace |
Pralabdha |
Template of life experiences, the challenges and blessings
that are imbedded in life experience |
Potential life experience and fulfillment of destiny |
Where Karma Dwells
Karma is multidimensional. We identify seven levels of karma.
(1) Physical distress. This can take the form of muscular tension,
organ inflammation, a disease condition, a genetic abnormality, and other
afflictions of the tissues and their physiological functioning.
(2) Etheric obstruction. In the energy field or aura, karma appears
as blockages in the inner channels of the vehicles, plugging up its meridians
or nadi.
(3) The magnetic force of craving or desire. Karma uses this magnetic
force to attract certain people or resources into a person's life so the
desire can be fulfilled. It may create the opportunity for fulfillment,
but we don't always take advantage of that opportunity because of other
priorities or because of conflicting values. Desire has tunnel vision,
it looks only for an opportunity to be fulfilled, through whatever means
available.
(4) Fantasy. This is creative visualization and imaginary enactment
of the pursuit and possession of the objects of desire and craving.
5) Cognitive-emotional nexus. These underlying beliefs and feelings
are innately bound to obtaining the object of desire. This includes the
constellation of thoughts and feelings about the object of the desire.
It also includes beliefs about the obstacles to its fulfillment. It has
beliefs about other people who may possess the object of desire, about
your self and your failure to possess the object of desire, and about
the Divine and/or Fate as to why it is unfair not to let you have what
you desire.
(6) Samskara, or impression in the causal body. This looks like
either iron filings or golden threads, depending on the nature of the
desire. A samskara effectively remembers the karma, keeps a lasting impression
of it, until it is finally worked out.
(7) The karmic seed. This is the essence of karma. When karma
is dormant, it sleeps in this seed form. When it is latent, it exists
as samskaras, as imbedded beliefs deep in the unconscious zone of the
mind, and as liminal fantasies, encountered in dreams, hypnotic states
and in meditation. When it is active, it is present in all seven levels,
and we are aware of the force of craving or desire.
How Do We Get Rid of It?
You dissolve karma by using a transformational method. All transformational
methods work by drawing down the energy of the Divine Spirit to burn away
karma at each of these levels by vaporizing the karmic seed.
Whether it is a transformational (bija) mantra, Kriya Yoga, Nada Yoga,
or Grace-Bestowing Light Immersion, each of these methods focalize the
radiant, fiery energy of the Divine Spirit. These methods are taught to
you in the Mudrashram® Master Course in Meditation and the Mudrashram®
Advanced Course in Meditation.
By knowing these techniques, you will be able to intentionally and consciously
transmute and dissolve the karmic accretion that fills your unawakened
inner vehicles. Through methodical and sustained transformational meditation
practice, these obstructions will be largely removed, and you will actualize
your spiritual potential.
How is New Karma Created?
New karma is created with your every thought, word and deed. Each cause
that you set into motion has consequences for your self, your family and
other people interrelating with you, your community, your nation, the
whole of humanity, the kingdoms of nature upon this planet, and the entire
universe.
As you evolve spiritually, you gain the option to function from higher
aspects of your being, through higher octaves of your volition. These
higher octaves of volition allow you to relate to others with compassion,
sensitivity and wisdom. They express the innate virtue and life of service
that arise from your spirituality.
We say option, because your ego does not cease to function. You still
may find yourself relating to others from this defensive, thoughtless,
and selfish mode of being-in-the-world.
But as you evolve, you can express the higher aspects of your nature.
These octaves of volition are shown below.
Octave |
Type of Will |
Mode of Activity |
Ego |
Desire-based |
Action based on passion, impulse, and strong desire |
Etheric body |
Suggestion-based |
Action based on suggestion and repetition, habit |
Personal Volition |
Intelligence-based (skillful will) |
Uses the faculties of the Metaconscious, Subconscious
and Conscious mind to carry out discrete goals; checks the activity
of desire-based and suggestion-based will |
Lower Subtle |
Archetypal |
Expresses the abilities of the Lower Subtle Band of
the Superconscious mind |
Higher Subtle |
Magical |
Channels the abilities of the Higher Subtle Band of
the Superconscious mind |
Biophysical Universe |
Natural |
Embodies instinctual and cultural modes of sexuality,
parenting and working |
Abstract Mind |
Apperceptive |
Operates in the realm of the Abstract Mind Plane, channels the abilities of the Abstract Mind into the personality |
Psychic Realm |
Psychic |
Anchors psychic powers in the personality |
1st Planetary Initiation |
Moral will |
Guides behavior by scriptural injunction and wisdom,
illumined by the Holy Spirit |
2nd Planetary Initiation |
Solar Angelic will |
Creative fiat affecting the Astral Plenum |
3rd Planetary Initiation |
Manasic Will |
Focal point for radiation of inspired thought from
the Illumined Mind, establishes attunement with the Soul, the Monad
and the Hierarchy of Light |
5th Planetary Initiation |
Transpersonal Will |
Controls and direct all active octaves of the will,
mastery of all vehicles and powers |
Monad |
Divine Will |
Attunes octaves of the Will to Spirit |
As your higher octaves of volition begin to operate, you refine the quality
of the karma that you create. You express in a wiser, gentler, more compassionate
manner. You feel less driven by craving and obsession. You can function
in your life with greater serenity and detachment. You shift from an urge
to control to the wish to serve others. You transition from the need to
win and be right to a need to understand and discover the truth about
others and your self.
Freedom from Karma
At an advanced stage of discipleship, you remove the final traces of
Adi, Kriyaman and Sinchit Karma that are stored in your inner vehicles
and the channels of the Nada. When this occurs, you liberate your spirit
and your Soul, and your vehicles return to the original source from which
they emanated. This profound state of meditation confers freedom from
the necessity to reincarnate, and brings union with the Divine.
This stage has been called Jivan Mukta, which means the attainment of
liberation and freedom from all stored karmas while you are alive. At
this stage only Pralabdha (Destiny) Karma continues to operate.
When this stage has been achieved, your human will becomes attuned to
the Divine Will. You function as an instrument of the Divine. This is
a state of complete inner surrender. It is called nishkam karma, or desireless
action. You simply follow the Divine Guidance each moment of your life.
Ultimately, you may be empowered by the Divine to teach and minister
to others as an Initiate. In this state you will help others overcome
their karma and reach the Light of Liberation, too.
Karmic Mastery
At the highest stages of Initiation, mastery over the four types of karma
becomes comprehensive and complete. In the stage of Multiplane Mastery,
the Initiate gains the following transcendent abilities:
(1) The power to forgive sins. These karmic issues are lifted
from the individual and assumed by the Initiate. These are later worked
out in meditation.
(2) The power to execute karma. Karmic issues from deeper levels
of the karmic reservoir are brought to the surface for current processing.
(3) The power to withhold karma. This halts the processing of
current karmic issues, and can postpone them to a later time.
(4) The power to redeem karma. This permits the selection of specific
karmas with a common theme from different strata of the karmic reservoir
to produce a particular result. For example, deeds of kindness from past
lives may be combined and currently executed to grant wealth and prosperity.
An ongoing pattern of negative behavior may be brought up for retribution
in current processing to correct these evil tendencies.
(5) The power to reclassify karma. This transfers karmic impressions
from one karmic category to another. For example, impressions of Sinchit
Karma may be moved out of the Nadamic channels and transferred to the
reservoir for Kriyaman Karma.
(6) The power to read karma. This grants understanding of the
choice-event that started the karmic pattern, its patterns of repetition,
its triggering factors and the contexts in which it is activated, and
discernment of the conditions that will lead to its completion and dissolution.
(7) The power to translate others. The ability to meditate on
behalf of others, using a transformational method, which moves the ensouling
entity to a subsequent nodal point in its spiritual evolution. Grace-Bestowing
Light Immersion, also called Shaktipat or Baraka, can directly burn away
karmas to unfold the potentials of the ensouling entity, clear the channels
of the Nada, and purify and tune up the inner vehicles at all octaves
of being.
Importance of Understanding Karma
As a student of meditation, it is important for you to gain a clearer
understanding of your own karma: what triggers it and what will resolve
it. At first this insight will reveal only a few threads of this hidden
fabric of your karma, but eventually you will discern the entire warp
and woof of this garment.
Then you will know exactly what has been completed and what remains to
be completed. Day by day, you will offer more of your karma to the inner
sacred fire. You will become pure. You will actualize your potential.
And you will become free.
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