A MIRACLE happened in the life of a stone cutter. A fairy appeared before him and told him,

“From today, you will become whoever and whatever you would like to be.”

The stone cutter had always wanted to be rich, very rich and he wished he could become the king, and instantly he became the king. He slept happily that night, “there is no one more powerful than me from now.” The next morning, the stone-cutter who had then become king, wanted to go round his city in his chariot and called his minister. The minister said: Oh king! It has been raining heavily from yesterday and you can’t ride in the chariot.

The king thought: Is the rain more powerful than me? Then I should become the rain. Forthwith, he became the rain. He was extremely happy as the rain and flooded the city. Suddenly, there came a strong gust of wind which scattered away the clouds and stopped the rain. Very angry at this, the rain thought: is the wind more powerful than me! All right, then I must change as the wind. The rain instantly changed into wind.

The wind became very happy and blew hard and fast. It uprooted very big trees and destroyed many houses too. But, try as it might it could not do any thing with the mountains.

“What? Are the mountains and the rocks in it more powerful than me? I then wish to become a mountain.” The moment he thought so, he turned into a mountain. At dawn, a stone cutter came to the mountain and began to cut on the rock face. The mountain could do nothing. Every cut and blow hurt terribly. Even as the mountain thought, “Is this stone cutter so powerful that I cannot stop him even though he hurts me? I may then as well be a stonecutter” the mountain changed into a stone-cutter. The stone cutter returned to his starting point. One cycle was completed. How he will be hereafter depends upon his desires. This is what continuously happens due to desires.

The stone cutter would not have continued upon such a cycle if at any stage he had remained contented and happy with whatever nature has bestowed on him, and without any pride whatsoever. It was only because, at every stage of his desires, he did not feel fulfilled that he had to go frantically searching: what next? What next?

What we call Karma, is the collection of unfulfilled desires and unsatisfied aspirations that we accumulate during our lives.

Paramahamsa Nithyananda

Nine out of ten people, if asked where their mind is, will point to their head, where we think our brains are!

Brains are not where our minds are. Mind is all over our body; within each cell, within the cell structure, embedded in the intelligence of the DNA and other building blocks of the mind body system that we are. There is as much mind in our little finger as there is in our head or our heart.

Mind is not fixed and permanent; not our cells as well. Cells die and are recreated every second. Our entire mind body system undergoes renewal every so often. What we are now is not what we were a year ago, not what we will be a year from now. Our mind body hardware is constantly renewed.

Yet, we behave the same way as we did a year ago or ten years ago, by and large. We are just as greedy, just as angry, just as depressed as we were a year or many years ago unless we have taken dramatic measures to change. We seem programmed in our behavior pattern.

We are programmed. We are programmed in our belief systems and attitudes based on our past experiences and memories of these experiences. It is these memories that drive us in all our actions. Unfortunately, all these memories lie in our unconscious mind.

We are driven by our unconscious, not by our rational mind as we wish to imagine.

We call this software of emotion filled memories that lie buried deep in our unconscious, samskara. Samskara are the embedded memories of our past, sometimes of previous lives, that drive us into action in the future (Karma). Since samskara are from the unconscious, we are unable to do anything to stop them, to control them or modify them. Unless, a big unless, we learn to penetrate the unconscious.

We can indeed penetrate the unconscious and dissolve our samskara, so meticulously built by our mind since childhood.

All we need to do is to bring ourselves into the present moment. In the present moment, no samskara exist, as these are products of our past. In the present moment, we have neither regrets nor anticipation. We just are.

Meditation leads us into the present moment. Meditation leads us into awareness of our samskara and from there into their dissolution. Meditation gives us control over our life, taking it away from the embedded software of our mind.

Nithyananda

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KARMA is the collection of unfulfilled experiences that stay in us and constantly pull us to fulfill them.

~ Paramahamsa Nithyananda – from his Best Selling Book: Living Enlightenment

Pure action with no end objective is KARMA

~ Paramahamsa Nithyananda – from his Best Selling Book: Living Enlightenment

KARMA is not a law of reward and punishment. It is a reflection of your mental state.

~ Paramahamsa Nithyananda – from his Best Selling Book: Living Enlightenment

You create your own KARMA. Karma does not create you. You are not a by-product of your actions. You are far bigger than your actions.

~ Paramahamsa Nithyananda – from his Best Selling Book: Living Enlightenment

Intention is the baggage, the karma, not the action. If action creates intention, it becomes the baggage. Pure action with no end objective is karma.

~ Paramahamsa Nithyananda – from his Best Selling Book: Living Enlightenment

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