Karma: The Mystery You Need To Resolve

By C.S. Bairagi

Whenever we use the word destiny or Karma in our conversations, it appears as if we are talking about a fate that was inscribed on our forehead and palms by the creator and is beyond our control. It is one of the most intelligent escapes that we have designed for ourselves to avoid the responsibility which comes with admitting that we are the architects of our life. Only a few of us use our intelligence in realizing the truth; most of us use it in escaping from it. Our intelligence is merely a tool; how we use it depends upon us. We cannot manipulate the laws of the existence with our mind and the law of Karma is one of these laws which can neither be bent nor broken.
Anyone who makes a dedicated effort to know this creation finds nothing but laws. The scientist and the spiritualist both discover them in their own special way. They are both walking towards the creator but from two totally different directions. When they set out on their quests, they appear to be antagonists but when they reach their destination they find themselves standing at the same spot. After a certain point, the scientist turns spiritual and the spiritualist turns scientific. The scientist reaches the conclusion that he is only discovering laws; the source that they are all emanating from remains unknown. The spiritualist reaches the conclusion that in every moment, the whole cosmos is unfolding and it is all unfolding lawfully.

• Language: English
• Publisher: C.S. Bairagi
• Release date: Sep 24, 2018

C.S. Bairagi

About The AuthorShri Charanjit Singh was born in the Patiala district of Punjab, in village Dhenthal, on the 30th of April 1972. His father, Shri Kulwant Singh, served as a senior auditor in the cooperative bank and his mother Swarn Kaur was a simple housewife. Shri Saudagar Singh, the author’s grandfather, was a hard core meditator and a man of Truth and it was most probably, his occasional company in the initial years that introduced the author’s soul to the taste of Bhakti or devotion. In 1972, Shri Kulwant Singh got transferred to the Sangrur district and so the whole family shifted to this town. Along with his elder brother Manjit Singh, who later joined the Indian Army and is now serving as a P.C.S. officer, this kid studied from nursery to the fifth standard in General Gurnam Singh Public School Sangrur. In 1979, this family was blessed with another baby boy Harjit Singh who is now an upcoming popstar living in Sydney (Australia). The author has some beautiful memories of this first decade of his incarnation and the word Sangrur means to him a lot more than just the name of another town. In 1983 Shri kulwant Singh got posted back to Patiala and the younger two kids got admitted in Yadavindra Public School Patiala(Y.P.S.). Elder brother Manjit went to Sainik School Kapurthala. From the sixth to the twelvth standard, the author studied here. The family started living at the village which was approximately 22 Kilometers from school and stayed here for the next 19 years.These were the years when the province of Punjab was going through a very violent change. The environment of the village was also not healthy for a soul as sensitive as that of the author. Both these factors had a very profound effect on the consciousness of this young boy and his inner world went through a metamorphosis. This was his initiation into the quest for meaning and though after passing out from the school in 1990, he became an engineering student but the inner turmoil did not let him concentrate on his studies and after quitting in the third year of his degree, he started taking formal training in classical as well as western music from two different institutes in Pune. Music provided his aimless life with a meaning and a purpose and it also took care of his spiritual restlessness. The notes and beats made more sense than the assignments back in the engineering college.During the transition from saying goodbye to a full fledged career in engineering to pursuing his passion of music, Shri Charanjit Singh came in contact with the spiritual mentor of the Namdhari sect of Sikhs, Satguru Jagjit Singh Ji and he firmly believes that this power is protecting and guiding him even today. Shri Charanjit Singh has no doubt regarding the difference that Guru Kripa makes in the life of a Shishya, a disciple. From his own experience, he knows that all which is praiseworthy in him and his personal world is not just a result of his own efforts; much of it is his Guru’s blessings.Along with music, Shri Charanjit Singh became deeply interested in the various meditation techniques, especially the ones designed by Acharya Rajneesh and being practiced at the Ashram in Koregaon Park Pune. The potential of these techniques, in liberating an individual from the prison of the mind and the suffering it creates, held great promise for this young revolutionary who was looking for ways to deal with the pain that is inherent in a human incarnation. With the purification of his soul and the evolution of his consciousness, Shri Charanjit Singh became increasingly aware of the part or role he played in the unfolding of life and his responsibility as a conscious being with regard to the degradation of human values and corruption of all kinds on such a large scale, in the environment, of which, he was an integral part. He realized that the glory of wisdom is in it being able to serve mankind by illuminating the lives of fellow beings with compassion and consciousness. This book is also an expression of his concern for the whole of mankind and the realization of his own duty. Through words, he is encouraging each and every one of us to establish religiousness inside and around us since that is the only way to make this earth livable.Any religious person has got basically three means to share his vision, his perception with the rest – books, audio/video recordings and personal contact. There was an era when personal contact was the only option available. All the three modes have got their benefits and limitations. For example, the way you can go into the details and intricacies of an issue in a book, is not possible in a chance conversation. But the shared awareness that comes into being in a conversation and the resonance of vibrations that manifests through a personal meeting of compatible souls, cannot be expected from the reading of a book or the listening of an audio recording. Shri Charanjit Singh is also making an honest attempt in using the mediums available to him to reach out to sincere souls like you. If a welfare organization feels the need of the service he has to offer, he tries his best to live up to their expectations. Wherever he is felt needed, he gives 1-2 hr. talks on the topics of addiction, Dharma, Karma, spiritual freedom and meditation. In every possible way, he tries to help as well as serve the rest of us, knowing well his limitation and capacity as a human being.

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KARMA

THE MYSTERY YOU NEED TO RESOLVE

KARMA

THE MYSTERY YOU NEED TO RESOLVE

By C.S.Bairagi

Charanjit Singh Bairagi

Copyright © 2015 Charanjit Singh

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We cannot manipulate the laws of the existence with our mind and the law of Karma is one of these laws which can neither be bent nor broken.

CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1 The Law Of Karma

Chapter 2 The Karmic Chain Reactions

Chapter 3 Freedom From The Karmic law

Chapter 4 The Martyr And The Saint

Chapter 5 Guru Kripa

About The Author

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I am deeply thankful to all the visible and invisible hands that have gone into the making of this book. Without their assistance and blessings, I could not have done it. From the ones who inspired me to write, to the one who has handed it to you, they all play a significant role in the manifestation of this work and have made it possible for me to reach out to you and share my being with you.

I am as grateful to those who have printed and distributed my work, as I am to those who have earned for all of us, the right to freedom of expression. There were days when it was not possible for an individual to speak the truth and share it with others. We are all very fortunate to be able to do so and should respect this freedom by not saying anything or writing anything that invades the space of others and hurts their sentiments. I therefore earnestly thank the ones who reviewed my work and provided me with a healthy feedback.

Even the tree, the wood of which the paper of this book is made from, deserves my thank you. We are all connected in a way that goes far beyond that which is obvious and we often fail to extend our gratitude to the silent existence that helps us realize our dreams. I thank everyone and everything responsible for all that I am and this book is a gift from me to mother-nature.

Chapter 1 – The Law Of Karma

My choice of a topic is very simple; I consider every topic a riddle to be solved and I pick up the one that has troubled me the most. Because if it has troubled me, it must be troubling a lot of my fellow beings since we are all contemporaries. While working on my own suffering and the suffering of others I realized that a lot of us do not fully understand the word Karma. The way we use the word indicates that we are not prepared to accept our responsibility for the role that our actions have to play in the unfolding of our destiny. We tend to blame others for our own mistakes and fail to see that in doing so, the root of our suffering goes unnoticed. Our attention stays focused on the other and our own actions escape our gaze. We keep on looking for something under the street light; something that was lost inside the darkness of our house. In our vain attempts to defend the ego, we shut ourselves to the wisdom of the law of Karma; the wisdom that can liberate us from all give and takes once and for all.

Whenever we use the word destiny or Karma in our conversations, it appears as if we are talking about a fate that was inscribed on our forehead and palms by the creator and is beyond our control. It is one of the most intelligent escapes that we have designed for ourselves to avoid the responsibility which comes with admitting that we are the architects of our life. Only a few of us use our intelligence in realizing the truth; most of us use it in escaping from it. Our intelligence is merely a tool; how we use it depends upon us. We cannot manipulate the laws of the existence with our mind and the law of Karma is one of these laws which can neither be bent nor broken.

Anyone who makes a dedicated effort to know this creation finds nothing but laws. The scientist and the spiritualist both discover them in their own special way. They are both walking towards the creator but from two totally different directions. When they set out on their quests, they appear to be antagonists but when they reach their destination they find themselves standing at the same spot. After a certain point, the scientist turns spiritual and the spiritualist turns scientific. The scientist reaches the conclusion that he is only discovering laws; the source that they are all emanating from remains unknown. The spiritualist reaches the conclusion that in every moment, the whole cosmos is unfolding and it is all unfolding lawfully.

Without its laws, it would not have been possible for the existence to even last a single minute and if any of these laws was bent by even one millionth of a precision, the whole cosmos would collapse. Everything is related to everything else; nothing exists in isolation. The harmony of the cosmos is beyond our imagination and there is nothing that can disrupt it. The greatest of destructions and upheavals are nothing but the creation restoring itself to a balance. The law of Karma happens to be just one of these laws and we need to understand its participation in the dance called life. We ought to look at it the way a scientist looks at the law of gravitation. Our approach has to be purely scientific, purely objective. Our observations must not suffer from a bias. If Newton had thrown a hundred apples towards the sky and one of them did not fall back to the ground, he would not have called gravitation a law. The utility and efficiency of a law lies in its being immune to circumstances. It should apply itself each and every time, without fail. Even expeditions that are centered on going away from the earth, cannot succeed without the force that pulls them towards the earth. They rely on the gravitational pull in carrying out their experiments. And that is the beauty of a law - its reliability. If you have suffered according to the law of Karma, then you can also attain salvation by respecting the same law and using it to your advantage. We walk and run by using the law of gravitation but if we stumble over something, we cannot blame the law for that. If we respect a law, it is our friend; if we try to violate it, it is our enemy. The law has nothing to gain or lose from the results we produce with the choice that we make. It exists beyond all this.

Even an incarnation of God like Shri Krishna, lived according to the laws of the existence though he had the power to play with these laws, the way a child plays with his toys. He obeyed the laws in order to set an example for the rest of the mankind. In Bhagvad Geeta he makes it absolutely clear to Arjun that there is nothing he needs to do but he does it to avoid leading others on the wrong path. He says, In all the three worlds that exist, there is nothing that is not available to me. I have no duty to perform and nothing to achieve. But still I do not disobey the law of karma and live according to it. He further adds, The supreme being has to be very careful in what he does because the whole mankind looks up to him for direction. He had to elaborate on the law of Karma to assist Arjun in fighting against injustice since Arjun found himself facing a very complicated situation. The significance of the dialogue between Shri Krishna and Arjun lies in the fact that at some point in our life, each and every one of us is just as confused about what to do and what not to as Arjun was. The fundamentals of life have always