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Today, it is an honor to present excerpts from “Spiritual Gems” by Hazur Maharaj Baba Sawan Singh Ji (vegetarian), which expounds on the karmic bindings of life. KARMA “The Supreme Creator and the individual spirit in the creation are connected together through the Sound Current. But Kal, also a creation of the Supreme Being, separates the individual from the Current by coming in between as mind and forms. Hence, the individual feels disconnected, but not so the Creator. There are three minds, and corresponding to these three minds are three kinds of forms: […] Now, a body actuated by mind and spirit cannot help performing karma, and the karmic law, ‘As you sow, so shall you reap,’ continues to work, and the account is complicated with time. The more one works, the greater the entanglement, like a bird struggling in the meshes of a net. So cunningly has Kal arranged the snare of forms and minds that it is almost impossible for man to escape from their influence. No matter how good and Godly we may be, that alone will not take us out of these regions. Says Lord Krishna: ‘Good actions are as much binding as bad actions; good actions may be likened to fetters of gold and bad actions to those of iron; and both are equally efficient in keeping us tied.’ The escape is through the Sound Current. Only when the attention catches and follows the Current does the mind become dormant and out of action. At all other times, when the attention is off the Current, the mind gets the upper hand. […]Everybody appears to be working with a will, and is influenced by and is influencing others with whom he comes in contact. The individual thinks he is the doer and thereby becomes responsible for his actions and their consequences. All the actions are recorded in his mind and memory, and cause likes and dislikes which keep him pinned down to the material, astral, or mental spheres, according to his actions in an earlier life in the cycle of transmigration. The individual in these regions cannot help doing actions and, having done them, cannot escape their influences. The individual acts as the doer and therefore bears the consequences of his actions. […]An individual is endowed with intelligence and does every action knowingly. It is, therefore, incumbent on him to find a way of escape from this entanglement. To raise his spirit, he must struggle against the mind, for he lives by struggle. And where there is a will, there is a way. He cannot say that this is no part of his Duty.”
