Clare Rosenfield
When you are about to speak at a radio station, a red light goes on to warn you that you are "on the air." Then whatever you say goes out into all directions and can be heard by thousands of people miles and miles away. By means of the telephone, radio, television, telex and other inventions, scientists have proved that what two hundred years ago was considered a miracle now has become a child's play. Except in our mind, there is no barrier. We live in a "global village." The world is a neighborhood. Sound crosses oceans and your own voice can be heard anywhere. Your image is carried miles away and you can watch your reflection.
Wherever in the world there are receivers and transmitters, there we can have communication. And exactly what is said can be heard. What carries your voice? Vibrations.
From the time of our birth we are "on the air." But no one turns the red light on to warn us! It is not only what we say that is heard, but whatever we think goes out into the universe and returns to us like an echo or a boomerang. If we want to receive loving vibrations from the universe, we need to learn how to "tune up" our frequency, to "dial" the right program, and to "tune in" to our pure vibrations. For that we need both interest and skill. All potential is there in us, but like a machine, it will not work unless we know how to operate it. Our mission is this: to learn how to tap that potential and actualize its power.
The philosophy of karma is based on the harmony of cause and effect and on the living experiences of the seers who were keen observers of themselves and the universe. Test the truth in your own experiences and not accept it on faith alone.
The process of karma is this: when you have a feeling of attraction or repulsion called kashaya: passion, a vibration is created. These vibrations, which you send out, pick up microscopic particles (atoms and molecules) from the universe and come back to you. Once you absorb them, they cloud you and obscure your clear vision. They are like static on a radio station preventing you from getting a clear reception of the program.
The particles which you receive cover your pure consciousness and hinder you from getting in touch with your real self. They hold you back from feeling at home in the universe. If your feeling of kashaya was very intense, then the particles received will be more dense, and the weightiness you feel will be heavier. Many physical and mental diseases start in this way. If your feeling of repulsion was slight, then the particles received will be less dense, and the weightiness you feel will be heavier. If your feeling of repulsion was slight, then the particles received will be less dense and therefore less binding.
What then is karma or karmas? Particles you have received and assimilated from the universe. How did they come? You attracted them by sending out a vibration, an invitation. This process is subtler than the working of a radio program, because what is inside your feeling, what is behind the inner program of your mind is animate and creative; it is sentient energy.
Binding particles are attracted to sentient energy only when this energy is not in a state of awareness. It is in the unaware state that we create either some passion of hatred or attachment.
Let us look for a moment at attachment. Love turned into attachment ceases to be love. It becomes binding and ultimately breeds repulsion and hatred. It is expectation that changes love into attachment. Attachment wants to hold, bind, make a package and put it into the pocket. When you have deep, deep pos-sessiveness, you turn the other person into an object. See the person as an individual with freewill and feelings.
When you make someone into an object, you want "it" to act as you mold it, do as you wish it to do, speak as you speak, and believe in what you believe. In other words, you want to see yourself in that person. It leads to more and more possessiveness. This possessiveness goes even further; it wants to protect as well. When you say: "My child, my husband," you are putting your "my" label on them.
For example, you do not want the other person to meet or speak to anyone of whom you do not approve. He can only be your friend if he is enemy to your enemy. If he is a friend to your enemy, he is in your mind not a friend to you. So your seeing is with blind desires; you want to mold and bind. That is why attachment leads to frustration and ends in repulsion.
Also by not allowing the one you love to act freely, you are not allowing the person to learn and grow. An individual must learn through bruises and mistakes. He must go through different processes if he is to grow. All growth involves a little suffering, a little giving up. To graduate from school, you give up playtime or sports to do your homework. To experience the joy of motherhood, a woman gives up whatever is needed to carry the baby in her womb. In order to love without attachment, a person gives up his ego, his lower self, his possessiveness.
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