Holy Spirit, Reincarnation and Karma
Christ described the fact of reincarnation long before modern day Christian ministers have explained it away by various creative means!
Sowing the seed by the daylight fair,
Sowing the seed by the noonday glare,
Sowing the seed by the fading light,
Sowing the seed in the solemn night:
O what shall the harvest be?
O what shall the harvest be?
Refrain:
Sown in the darkness or sown in the light,
Sown in our weakness or sown in our might,
Gathered in time or eternity,
Sure, ah sure, will the harvest be.
Sowing the seed by the wayside high,
Sowing the seed on the rocks to die.
Sowing the seed where the thorns will spoil,
Sowing the seed in the fertile soil:
O what shall the harvest be?
O what shall the harvest be?
(Refrain)
Sowing the seed with an aching heart,
Sowing the seed while the teardrops start,
Sowing in hope till the reapers come
Gladly to gather the harvest home.
O what shall the harvest be?
O what shall the harvest be?
(Refrain)
http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/w/s/wsharvbe.htm
The time we are now living in is what Christians call the "Harvest Time". The
harvesting time comes when the seed has been planted and has borne fruit.
Depending upon what we have sown in our lives, that is what we will get back as
'our harvest':
"Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, this he will
also reap." (Galatians 6:7)
[It is common sense to those who are not indoctrinated against the fact of
reincarnation, that reaping what a person has sown cannot possibly happen in one
lifetime! It happens over many lifetimes. Christ Jesus made reference to the
fact of reincarnation, when He said]:
"And if you care to accept it, he [John the Baptist] is Elijah, who was to
come!" (Christ Jesus - Matthew 11:14)
["That's reincarnation" that Christ is describing, folks! Christ described the
fact of reincarnation long before modern day Christian ministers have explained
it away by various creative means! The irony of the situation is that the same
Christian ministers that deny the fact of reincarnation, are also the same
people who have reincarnated many times themselves! They are just not aware of
it, because of the 'time of forgetting' that most of us experience, when our
individual spirit incarnates in our individual body. But Christian ministers do
not know this fact, so they try and explain away `reincarnation' by saying that
it was only `Elijah's spirit' that overshadowed John the Baptist. This is not
so! It was Elijah's spirit that came back as John the Baptist! Why would
Elijah's spirit come and hover over John the Baptist, when John had the Holy
Spirit to do the same for him?! When a person has the Holy Spirit with them,
they do not need 'another spirit' to hover over them! That is why it is the
truth that the spirit of Elijah was not hovering over John the Baptist but was
"within" John the Baptist! That is also why Christ Jesus said: "If you care to
accept it, he [John the Baptist] is Elijah, who has come [back]!]
['Reaping what one sows' is the same law that in Eastern teachings is called the
Law of Karma, namely that 'what one sows, one will reap', only in the Eastern
teachings, the fact of reincarnation has not been denied!]:
"If we accept the principle of cause and effect in Nature, and of action and
reaction in physics, how can we not believe that this natural law extends also
to human beings? Once consciousness is understood as basic to everything the
question begs to be asked: Do not humans, too, belong to the natural order? Such
is the law of karma: "As you sow, so shall you reap." If you sow evil, you will
reap evil in the form of suffering. And if you sow goodness, you will reap
goodness in the form of inner joy. To understand karma, you must realize that
thoughts are things. The very universe, in the final analysis, is composed not
of matter but of consciousness. Matter responds, far more than most people
realize, to the power of thought. For willpower directs energy, and energy in
turn, acts upon matter. Matter, indeed, is energy. Every action, every thought,
reaps its own corresponding rewards. Human suffering is not a sign of God's or
Nature's anger with mankind. It is a sign, rather, of man's ignorance of the
divine law. The law is forever infallible in its workings." (Karma and
Reincarnation - Paramhansa Yogananda)
http://www.dailyom.com/library/000/001/000001020.html
Christ said the Spirit is Eternal
"We are in the kingdom of God [and therefore] in no way are we unhappy, in no
way! Some things happen in life such as that somebody has to die; everybody
doesn't die together. So everybody who is born has to die. But the way they've
made death as some sort of big part of life?! It is a moment, just a moment,
that you pass out, go and change and come back again. But in this life, whatever
you do, it is to enjoy! Christianity has not said much on the subject of death.
If they had allowed Christ to live, he would have talked about it. But He has
said that the Spirit is eternal. He has talked of reincarnation, no doubt!"
(Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi - Diwali Puja Synopsis - Cabella, Italy - 10 November
1991)
"Karma" literally means "deed" or "act", and more broadly names the universal
principle of cause and effect, action and reaction, which Hindus believe governs
all life. It is believed that only beings that can distinguish right from wrong,
such as adult humans, can accumulate Karma. Animals and young children are not
considered to accumulate Karma as they are incapable of discriminating between
right and wrong. However, all sentient beings can feel the effects of Karma,
which are pleasure and pain. Karma is not fate; humans are believed to act with
free will, creating their own destinies. According to the Vedas, if an
individual sows goodness, he or she will reap goodness; if one sows evil, he or
she will reap evil. Karma refers to the totality of mankind's actions and their
concomitant reactions in current and previous lives, all of which determine the
future. However, many karmas do not have an immediate effect; some accumulate
and return unexpectedly in an individual's later lives. The conquest of karma is
believed to lie in intelligent action and dispassionate reaction.
Unkindness yields spoiled fruits, called paap, and good deeds bring forth sweet
fruits, called punya. As one acts, so does he become: one becomes virtuous by
virtuous action, and evil, by evil action."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karma_in_Hinduism
[How are karmas created? Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi states that karmas are created
by the ego]:
"Karmas are done by your ego. You must have observed that after coming to Sahaja
Yoga [your Union with the Divine] that you can clearly see your ego (Ahankar)and
the way it works. In Sahaja Yoga also, you come across many temptations and in
that, your ego dominates and you forget whether you have to go to Sahaja Yoga,
or if Sahaja Yoga is to come to you. Many people, when they succumb to their
ego, turn their backs to Sahaja Yoga, expecting Sahaja Yoga to follow them!"
(Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi—Advice 'NY14')
[Man 'in reality' is the Atman, but he has identified himself with his gross
body, subtle body or causal body, and therefore remains in spiritual bondage!]:
"Atman (Self) is ever pure and ever free. Man, in reality, is Atman. But he
identifies with the gross body, subtle body or the casual body and remains
bound. By non-identification with these, one becomes liberated. On death, the
gross body falls off. The physical gross body is thrown off like changing
clothes. Atman is never born or is it ever slain. It is only the subtle body,
which stores the desires, hopes etc. which transmigrates from one birth to
another. Only the subtle body enjoys the fruits of the action in the physical
world in the heaven or hell."
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/8107/thoughts.html
[Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi states that as long as one's ego is enveloping one,
that the person cannot have the glimpse of their Spirit]:
"So long as your ego is enveloping you, you cannot have the glimpse of your
Spirit. But it is useless to fight with your ego. In Sahaja Yoga [union with the
Divine within you] you do not have to fight with your ego, but you just have to
see, because your attention itself gets awakened and your ego cools down by just
seeing, as the seeing is illuminating. In that light you witness the play of
your ego and laugh at it. As you start seeing yourself, your ego starts getting
deflated and as the ego is deflated, you rise in your light." (Shri Mataji
Nirmala Devi—Advice NY 14)
[However, through Union with the Divine within ['Sahaja Yoga'], the person can
start seeing one's wrong identification and faults through the Light of the
Spirit, and the Shakti or Power of the Holy Spirit, completely removes them!]:
"In Sahaja Yoga, when one is realised, one starts seeing one's own faults. Man
is so identified with himself that he does not want to know his faults, and when
he knows them, he just wants to run away. But it is better that instead of
carrying the burden of your faults from life to life, that you know them and
correct them. There is nothing in it to be scared of. If you make yourself a
little steady, you will understand how powerful the Shakti [Holy Spirit's power]
is, which not only brings into light the faults within you, but also completely
removes them!" (Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi—Advice 'NY14')
[All sins/karmas are finished!]:
"Whatever are your karma phalas are finished. You're not responsible for your
forefather's karma phalas, your country's karma phalas, your own personal karma
phalas. Whatever wrong we have done is finished, as if you are cut off from your
past completely! Once this is established, then all mistakes, all wrong-doings,
not only of you, your relations, of your forefathers, of your family, of your
country, of this world, anything, doesn't touch you. You are aloof from it."
(Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi—Hamsa Chakra Puja Synopsis—Vancouver, Canada—13
September 1992)
"Shankara finally tells that the knower of the Self always rejoices only in
Absolute Bliss of the Self and also quotes from Srutti [the Vedas] and Smriti
[The law books, subsidiary to the Vedas] to back his words. All the three types
of Karma are only for the Jiva [individual soul with ego] and not to the Atman
[The Self]. Atman is never a kartha ['a Doer'] and hence it is not a bhoktha
[person who enjoys] also. When the Jiva realizes his own Self, then the Kartha
[he who does an act] ceases to exist and hence the karmas, which got accumulated
over millions and millions of birth also ceases to exist. To a person who
realized his own nature of Self, nothing can bind him and thus such a person has
crossed the Samsara [repeated rounds of births and deaths]. Self is already
realized and realization is not an event to occur, it is just a clear
understanding of the Mahavakya [highest Vedantic truth or identity between
individual soul and Supreme Soul] of the Srutti [revealed scriptures; Vedas] as
in "Ayan Atma Brahma"—"The Self is verily Brahman" etc. When a person gets
such a firm conviction on these Upanishadic statements without any doubt through
vedantic sadhana [path of vedantic spiritual practice] of Srvana [hearing the
scriptures], Manana [reflection on the scriptures] and Nidhidhyaasana [profound
meditation on the scriptures], he is liberated and has crossed the Samsara. He
gets a firm conviction that "I am neither body nor senses nor mind nor intellect
but Ever Blissful Infinite Atman". All the Karma phalams are only for the body
and the mind, and since the person got the firm conviction that he is Atman;
different from gross, subtle and causal body, none of the karma phalams affect
him. Therefore such a person goes beyond the temporary happiness and sorrow
which the good and bad phalams respectively can give and always rejoices in the
Absolute Bliss of the Self."
http://tattvabodha.blogspot.com/2007_04_01_archive.html
[Shri Mataji explains that at this transitionary time of "Krita Yuga" (or
'critical time' between the Kali Yuga (Age of Ignorance) and the Satya Yuga (Age
of Enlightenment)... that the Brahma Chaitanya, which is the all-pervading
power, has become activated, and it is trying to expose and punish people for
the past karma. That is why the Christian Comforter had to come, to help people
face themselves, that is, their sin or karma, by turning to the Holy Spirit and
having the Holy Spirit awaken within them. When the Holy Spirit awakens within
the person, She, the Kundalini, washes the person's garments (psychosomatic
system) as white as snow, as the Scriptures say! 'Those people' Shri Mataji
says, 'will not be touched']:
"And in this Krita Yuga where this Brahma Chaitanya [activated All-pervading
power] is trying to expose and to punish people for their past karmas,
collectively also, country-wise also, [this] will not even be able to touch you,
because the light of the centre [Hamsa Chakra; centre of discretion located
between the eyes] is extremely powerful, and you will be redeemed of all the
fears of whatever you have done before. You'll just be beautiful, like lotuses
which have come out of the mire, and you'll emit beautiful fragrance all around
the world". (Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi—Hamsa Chakra Puja Synopsis—Vancouver,
Canada)
[However, Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi says that all sins or karmas (a.k.a. 'paaps')
and all merits or rewards (a.k.a. 'punyas') are now coming to universal
fruition]:
"So now whatever we have done wrong before, whatever karmas have been done in
ignorance, or deliberately, all of them will be paid back. Those punyas, which
you have done in previous lives, will in this life, also be rewarded. This is
all done through Shri Krishna's principle of collectivity, where He collectively
sees the situation." (Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi—Shri Krishna Puja Synopsis —
Cabella, Italy—16 August 1992)
[Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi did not incarnate to engender any religious, political
or economic favour. Rather, She incarnated as the 'Christian Comforter' to
favour us with the Baptism of the Holy Spirit! Shri Mataji calls Sahaja Yoga a
"living organisation". It is a living organisation where the Absolute Truth must
not only prevail, but be lived in each of our lives. She must have told us at
least a thousand times, that we have to become our own master, or teacher, or
guru! She also talked about the grave moral issues that we are facing today]:
"Columbus luckily went to America, so we were saved. Otherwise we would not have
been here! Then the Spanish occupied the land and killed the poor unarmed
aboriginal people. So now these diseases and drug addiction have started. The
drugs come from Bolivia and Colombia. We drove the people there, and then went
down to help them, and now we are welcoming the drugs back. In all the elite
societies, the discussion is where the best drug is for sale. So all of America
is now worried about how much drugs they can import and kill themselves and
destroy themselves. So this destruction has started from inside." (Shri Mataji
Nirmala Devi—Shri Krishna Puja Synopsis - Cabella, Italy—16 August 1992)
[Shri Mataji tells what has happened, due to not keeping to the morality or
dharma]:
"Indulgence into Freudian practices, not keeping to morality, has brought on
AIDS, Yuppie's disease, and all kinds of secret diseases, which ten percent of
people have. Many in America, at least one in twenty, are schizophrenic as a
result of making other countries and people nervous. Even the English, who came
to India as traders, plundering and ruling for three hundred years, now have
problems in their own country. They left India divided in three pieces, and now
have become a divided country themselves. The French also tried to sell their
wine and bring their horrible bathroom culture everywhere, and are now suffering
from it." (Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi—Shri Krishna Puja Synopsis—Cabella,
Italy—16 August 1992)
[Shri Mataji states that all the seeds sown of these non-dharmic ways have
reaped recessions, because people have not used their wealth properly, and every
country is now having to face up to what they have done!]:
"All these countries are paying through recessions. This is also Shri Krishna's
power because He's Kubera. He's the one who is the power of wealth. He gave
wealth to all these countries, and now they don't know what to do with
themselves. All over the world, in the past 50 years, many remarkable things
have happened. All over the world, there has been some sort of a complete
change, or an exposure. In Italy, the Vatican, mafia connections, and government
have all been exposed. [The] Indians are also suffering from their past deeds
involving the caste system. So like that, in every country, you'll see gradually
every country will have to face up to what it has done." (Shri Mataji Nirmala
Devi—Shri Krishna Puja Synopsis—Cabella, Italy—16 August 1992)
[However, Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi says that many false gurus are now trembling,
because we are standing on the truth!]:
"In this Kali Yuga, He [Shri Krishna] is also acting by finishing many false
gurus and exposing them nicely. They themselves are trembling and are very
frightened of us, because we are standing on the Truth." (Shri Mataji Nirmala
Devi—Shri Krishna Puja Synopsis—Cabella, Italy—16 August 1992)
[Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi explains that it is best not to discard
Sahaja Yoga, which is our 'Union with the Divine Within', even though we may be
attached to another organisation. She says there is no organisation or
membership in Sahaja Yoga!]:
"So these realised souls are all over and they are helping. They never enter
into anybody, they never trouble you, they guide you, to the proper lines. They
bring their angels and they help you to come to the right path, to the right
conclusions. And they never try to possess you, hypnotise you, or take you to
the wrong side of life. So when you are realised also, you must know that you
have to know 'completely' what is the reality. Go on understanding, trying to
assimilate it, not to discard it because you are attached to another
organisation. There is 'no' organisation in Sahaja Yoga, you know very well.
There is no grouping in Sahaja Yoga. There is no membership in Sahaja Yoga.
'But', it is a living organisation. It is a living organisation! So anything
happens here, the whole body knows! We don't have to have organisation written
for this body! In the same way, Sahaja Yoga works out!" (Shri Mataji Nirmala
Devi—Formal Talk 'Agnya Chakra'—Delhi, India—3-2-83)
[Shri Mataji informs that what She has said, has been opposed by some churches
in England and America, but She says that if they want to exist any longer, they
had better take to the truth, knowing that what they know so far, is incomplete.
Shri Mataji says that to understand Christ, you have to have your realisation!]:
"About the Agnya Chakra ['Narrow Gate'] I have spoken many times in England and
America, and was very much opposed by some churches, and things. But I think if
they want to exist any longer, they 'better' take to truth and 'know' that what
they know so far is incomplete. They have to know the full of it. Because Christ
could not talk much and whatever He said, was written down by His disciples, the
way they understood. To understand Christ, you have to have your realisation."
(Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi—Formal Talk 'Agnya Chakra'—Delhi, India —
03/02/83)
"Now you all know that you have no karmas left. It's all finished. And now you
are beautiful new people. The blossoming time has brought you as fruits now. So
don't pay attention to yourself, to your maladies, and to your troubles, and
things will definitely improve! Somebody was telling me that they got a pain in
the knee. I felt, that I just get a pain in the knee, so many times. I have pain
here, because I absorb it from you. But I never think about it! Never bother!
Because I see [that] my body is alright. Like this machine, if it is spoiled, we
should cure it, finished! But if all the time you are thinking this is paining
here, this is wrong, and I've got no money, I've got to do this business... that
business, finished! (Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi—Diwali Puja—Moscow, Russia —
12 November 1993)
"So now we have to rise into the realm of superconsciousness. I can go on
speaking about everything so sublime, so beautiful. There are many lectures,
which I have given. But lectures have nothing but words. These are the 'web of
words'. So you must get out of it. You have to go beyond the mind. That is what
is my own vision! And so many have fulfilled it. I am always yours whenever you
want. Whenever you want me to come, I will come. That my life is more than my
own will. But you also must love yourself, and love your self realisation!"
(Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi—Diwali Puja—Moscow, Russia—12 November 1993)
