Clare Rosenfield
Now let us see, according to the ancient philosophy, how we have our part in anything, which happens in the universe in relation to us. For example a person who has a dislike for learning, knowledge, or books creates inside himself a very angry feeling for anyone or anything connected with knowledge. According to those vibrations of anger, the person is drawing karmic particles, which will obscure his or her vision.
These karmas are called intuition-obscuring or knowledge-obscuring karmas. Depending on the intensity and duration of the person's hostility or indifference to knowledge, such a person may be born in the next life with an extremely low degree of intelligence or none at all.
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 life. 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 concretised."
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.
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 your unique idea, speech, and action that you select a family, that family whose genes will permit you to express best that dream. Therein lies your unique temperament, nature, character, and growth pattern. That is why in the whole of the universe you will not find a single carbon copy of yourself.
The closer in touch you are with your dream, the closer you come to living your approach to life and to making your dream come true. For example, those souls who for a long period of time, in at least three or four births, deeply cherish a feeling to lift all living beings from pain, suffering, and violence, become so engulfed with that longing that each cell of their consciousness is permeated by it. They are swimming in the dream of saving and helping living beings. Because of their compassionate vibrations of amity, gradually their whole consciousness becomes scented with feelings of helping all.
Now there are no longer any heavy karmas binding them. Their positive vibrations take them to parents who are healthy and magnanimous. The mother who carries this child is superb, positive. Each cell of the body of this child is so vibrant with magnetic power that when people come into his or her presence they are lifted. In this birth this soul receives a golden voice, a command over words, pleasing aroma in order to actualise one dream: to free all beings from suffering by bringing them to the path of Enlightenment.
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Nothing in the world is impossible for mankind. Whatever miracle we see in the field of medicine, architecture, invention, is the result of human consciousness and power. Whatever spiritual growth we experience comes from our longing to grow and to help others grow.
What happens to many people is that their mental habits come in their way and take away the positive effect of their meditation. The newfound bliss, courage, zeal, and awareness are covered up again. So what is needed is constant realization and faith in oneself. Say to yourself, "If someone can do it, why not I?"
Realize that the "I" that was there in the amoeba as an unconscious or subconscious individuality has reached the state of "I can do it." "I cannot do it" is a conditioned feeling built by society and outside influences. To break that conditioning, swim against the current and work on "I can do it"; I am capable of doing and undoing; I can erase those old vibrations which are collected and stored up from the past." Analysing them you are cancelling them. Knowing which vibrations are coming in your way is dismissing them.
Who is compelling you to carry those vibrations, which you do not want? No one but you. You have not removed them because you have not yet exerted your energy to remove them. When you realize "Who am I?" and "I can do it," you are working with dynamic power. You stop all blaming and start taking some responsibility on you. You know the art of using living positive vibrations to scatter old negative ones.
