🥀 January 9, 2024, Tuesday 🥀
🍁 Poush Krishna Paksha Trayodashi 2080 🍁
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‼ Sage Reflection ‼
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❗ Accumulated Karma and Their Essence ❗
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👉 If we examine our daily actions, we need to categorize them into three types. Some occur unknowingly, such as the influence of negative people in the neighborhood or staying in spiritual gatherings, and their impact subtly affects us in some way. This influence occurs, but since we did not willingly accept it, it remains light, weak, and has a minimal effect in a corner of our inner consciousness. Such low-virtue impressions that create negative tendencies are called “accumulated karma.”
Actions that are performed under compulsion but with an internal desire not to do them if there were a choice, like reluctantly performing a task while the mind rebels against it, result in impressions that are also light, weak, and have a minimal impact. Such actions also fall under the category of “accumulated karma.” These accumulated karmas have weak and light imprints, so they remain hidden in some unknown corner of the mental terrain for thousands of years. If they don’t find a favorable opportunity to manifest, they remain dormant.
However, if similar negative actions are knowingly and willfully performed with strong determination, these dormant impressions begin to surface. Just as a deeply buried seed sprouts when exposed to good soil and adequate rainfall, accumulated karmas also rise to the surface with the support of strong karmas of the same nature. But if these accumulated impressions have to coexist continuously with powerful karmas of opposite nature, they get destroyed. Just as a pot of water placed in a hot location dries up due to heat after a month, similarly, if positive impressions are being accumulated, the dormant negative impressions get destroyed due to their heat. Scriptures mention that undertaking auspicious activities such as pilgrimage helps eliminate past-life sins. In reality, this indication is related to these low-virtue “accumulated karma” impressions.
Both good and bad accumulated karma impressions are fruitful in favorable conditions and get destroyed in unfavorable circumstances.