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How is Advaita Vedanta connected with Experience?
Advaita Vedanta promulgates this idea that whatever is within, is experienced without. Since our mind is continuously weaving thoughts, emotions, concepts, and ideas through its artillery of subconscious and unconscious mental energies, our life manifests unknown levels of relative realities that we are forced into believing, that we never asked for all this and yet it is on our plate.
One needs to understand the mechanism of how the mind works and creates life situations.
Is Creative Visualization based on Vedic Teachings?
There are a lot of factors that contribute to the life that we are leading today. It is also important that the Western concept of Creative Visualization cannot be confused with the perfect philosophy of Vedanta. Today Creative Visualization is being promoted as a valid technique to attain whatever we desire.
The Truth cannot be further away than this, although the understanding of Creative Visualization is loose and yet poorly based on the knowledge of the Vedas.
How does Karma affect Life?
We need to understand the mechanics of the mind, how thoughts are produced, and the scientific basis of how Karma affects reality. Karma decides most of our lives. It includes latent impressions of the mind, subconscious affirmations, negative biases, and a host of mental processes that are performed by our thinking faculties that create Samskaras which decide the manifestation of our realities. This is the basis of all Karma.
This reality that we experience is temporary. When the power of intention and its fruit is exhausted, that temporary reality, as experienced by our senses also vanishes with time.
The experience of an event, circumstance, or experience is again consumed by us just as the cow regurgitates the cud and there is an endless loop of cause and effect which manufactures an endless set of situational bogies getting successively attached to the engine of the mind. This makes the freewheeling of Karma as a constant phenomenon.
Thus our life becomes an expression of our own unknown and untraced aspects of subconscious and unconscious tendencies. What the mind fears or believes, shall manifest, now or sometime in the future. We shall discuss in short, the various factors that contribute towards our reality and what does not.
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How is Karma related to our Past Lives?
This is a great aspect for our consideration when it comes to our current reality. Our current bodies are a result of whatever good, bad or neutral activities that we may have performed through earlier bodies that we would have attained in past lifetimes.
If we would have been thinking of a woman at the time of death, we would have got a woman’s body in the current life. If our mental tendencies in earlier lifetimes would be of being dependent on others, this trend would spill over to the current lifetime and we would still be dependent on someone, moving around with battered confidence even during this lifetime, as part of our Karma.
Our entire life situations in the current lifetime is just a carry-over from the past life. However, since we have a human body, a lot of possibilities also lie within us that can transform the way we currently exist
How is Karma related to our Present Life?
Karma begins with the formation of every new body.Our current life from the start, namely our childhood, the way our character is built, our childhood circumstances, the influence of society on us during our growing years, our associations, and a host of other external factors shape our perspective.
These perspectives can make or distort the way, future graduates to the present. The Past sows the seed, the present can either roast the seed and make it ineffective or remove old seeds and sow new ones. Along with this, through our present actions, we can water the seeds, either the present or past ones which remain untouched by us.
Thus the trees of the future can be shaped by our actions in the present. This is by resorting to the right actions and right approach correcting our mindset through deliberation and accepting our flaws in all humility.
Is Creative Visualization useful at All when there is Karma?
Creative Visualizing is more or less a western concept. This is today, perhaps the most lucrative market that sells ideas to create or re-create our future.
However, one major factor that it discounts is Karma and aspects of our current lifestyle, our intentions and actions that are deep-rooted, that govern even our dreams and behavior.
Creative Visualization just focuses on meditating on expected results by stoking misplaced greed, the (unfounded) desire to be well-off, better off. It gives you some “scientific looking techniques” that include affirmations, writing goal statements, rehearsing the outcomes, and a host of other so-called “assumed” techniques. It totally discounts the Karma aspect.
But if the ground is hard or if the soil is infertile, can the seeds be sown? Can simply imagining a healthy lifestyle give results? Never. Spiritual practices have to be undertaken to eliminate the hard-coded conditioning of our ageless minds.
One has to first get rid of the show-stoppers before feeding into it, the so-called positive stuff. On a wrong base, which does not have a strong foundation, a sky-scrapper can never be built.
Karma: Is our consciousness hijacked?
If we are people who are motivated by money, greed, ambition and so many things related to fair and unfair business over a protracted period, naturally we shall find ourselves surrounded by people of the same mentality.
This is a clear facet of mental projection, done unconsciously but repeatedly over a long period. Our aims and ambitions shall revolve around profits and losses, on schemes and plans to earn money. This is just going to add fuel to the raw material of Karma.
We shall face good and bad times in business. All said, our focus till our very end shall be fixated on earning and creating profits. What is the scope here? All our experiences shall majorly be business-related. I am trying to make a strong point. If we infuse and soak the mind in a certain aspect of life, our whole life experience shall be colored with that aspect of life alone. In this case, we shall see our children as future investments.
We shall be more inclined to “use” relatives and friends to further our unconsciously created business attitude only. We even fail to appreciate that we are being read by the world and have been stripped naked.
We, even do not care, worry, or even unconscious about what the world feels about us. We are only chasing profits. This shall reduce us to the status of automatons; we shall be viewed as pre-programmed unintelligent machines, that cannot treat a situation according to its merit.
Our whole consciousness is hijacked. Life which is available to us as infinitum, is reduced to a piece of rotten pie.
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