Monday, January 30, 2012

What do I do if karma is stalking me?

I read my astrological prediction this morning and it said I need to shake my body more in the shower.



At lunch I opened my fortune cookie and it asked me what I am doing later.



I keep getting flowers mis-delivered to my address all the time.



I accidently bumped someone in traffic and they came out mad but suddenly started apologizing and saying it was their fault and left.

What do I do if karma is stalking me?
The subject of the Bhagavad-gita entails the comprehension of five basic truths

1. Isvara-the supreme controller,

2. Jivas -the controlled living entities.

3. Prakrti-the material nature

4. Kala- time (the duration of existence of the whole universe or the manifestation of material nature)

5. karma (activity) are also discussed.



The cosmic manifestation is full of different activities. All living entities are engaged in different activities. From Bhagavad-gita we must learn what God is, what the living entities are, what prakrti is, what the cosmic manifestation is, how it is controlled by time, and what the activities of the living entities are.



KARMA

The effects of karma may be very old indeed. We are suffering or enjoying the results of our activities from time immemorial, but we can change the results of our karma, or our activity, and this change depends on the perfection of our knowledge. We are engaged in various activities. Undoubtedly we do not know what sort of activities we should adopt to gain relief from the actions and reactions of all these activities, but this is also explained in the Bhagavad-gita.



Material nature itself is constituted by three qualities: the mode of goodness, the mode of passion and the mode of ignorance. Above these modes there is eternal time, and by a combination of these modes of nature and under the control and purview of eternal time there are activities, which are called karma. These activities are being carried out from time immemorial, and we are suffering or enjoying the fruits of our activities. For instance, suppose I am a businessman and have worked very hard with intelligence and have amassed a great bank balance. Then I am an enjoyer. But then say I have lost all my money in business; then I am a sufferer. Similarly, in every field of life we enjoy the results of our work, or we suffer the results. This is called karma.



The living entity forgets what to do. First of all he makes a determination to act in a certain way, and then he is entangled in the actions and reactions of his own karma. After giving up one type of body, he enters another type of body, as we take off and put on clothes. As the soul thus migrates, he suffers the actions and reactions of his past activities. These activities can be changed when the living being is in the mode of goodness, in sanity, and understands what sort of activities he should adopt. If he does so, then all the actions and reactions of his past activities can be changed. Consequently, karma is not eternal. Therefore we stated that of the five items (isvara, jiva, prakrti, time and karma) four are eternal, whereas karma is not eternal.



Excerpts from the Introduction to Bhagavad-gita-as-it-is

by A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada,

Founder-Acharya of ISKCON

(International Society for Krishna Consciousness)
Reply:Sounds like Karma is "stalking" you in a good way. Just let it flow and return some good! It may be that someone is needing to meet you.....maybe the stranger that you bumped in to.
Reply:Get a restraining order and a Karmic repellent!
Reply:??? Karma can not possible STALK

Karma is a reaction to an action. Not one of these things you've said has anything to do with karma.


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