The Means by which Karma is Generated

The four principals means by which humans generate karma comprise the following:

1.      Karma is generated by thoughts

2.      Karma is generated by speech

3.      Karma is generated by emotions

4.      Karma is generated by deeds

 

Karma is generated by thoughts

 Karma is generated by speech

 Karma is generated by emotions

Karma is generated by deeds

Now, every thought, speech, emotion and deed generates a correlated consequence. But the execution of a thought, speech, emotion or deed, is preceded by an intrinsic urge; and when that urge or tendency is yielded to, it soon amplifies into a habit. The habit then moulds into behavior, which in turn crystallises into character, and character then hardens into a pattern that directs one’s life. The karmic consequences that arise from every thought, speech, emotion and deed become aggregately blended into a dreadful karmic tapestry in the sub-conscious mind, and constitute the blue print of one’s inclinations for particular courses of action, as opposed to others. The aggregate individual karma can thus be regarded as one’s invisible but active personal history, in view of thought, emotion, speech and deed; blended in an intricate tapestry, moulded in the appropriate pattern, which exerts substantial impact on one’s inclinations and preferences in life.

Now, it is entirely critical to provide a summary of the mechanisms via which karma is generated within humans, because awareness of this mechanism can improvise one with the alacrity and endurance in militarising and scrutinising one’s conduct to good effect. It has been intimated that the key principal agencies, means by which karma is generated comprise thoughts, emotions, speech and deeds. Nonetheless, since one of the seven Hermetic principles entails mentalism, for which the mental arena and its associated processes are antecedent to each and every exertion manifested by humans, it follows that grasping the mental mechanism that occasions speech, emotion and deed, is cardinal in ascertaining the intrinsic modalities of karmic generation.

Whenever an action is to be executed, it is preceded by a thought that corresponds to the execution of that particular action. The thought in question would vibrate at a certain frequency, and upon its initiation, it enshrines an imprint on the mind, which can be termed a groove. The action so executed by the individual would unleash the corresponding magnitude of consequences, and the intrinsic regulatory mechanisms of the spiritual ecology of the universe would ensure that these consequences are assimilated by the dispenser of that deed.

But whenever a groove is enshrined on the mind, the mind becomes established in that groove, and it is more readily prone to entertaining thoughts of the same frequency as that which constructed the initial groove.

This would then develop a tendency in the individual to incubate similar thoughts, which then instigate the performance of action with which one is accustomed, as mapped out by initial thought exertions. Each subsequent repetition of that thought form and of its begotten action would reinforce both the former and the latter. The groove hosting that thought form is then subjected to systematic enforcement and reinforcement, until that particular thought pattern becomes tenaciously embedded in the mind to the degree of one’s enslavement to it. The aggregate and intricate blending of all the grooves yield a very complex pattern, which crystallises into one’s character; and this character would constitute the channel and triggering force of one’s subsequent thoughts and deeds; which in turn yield their own consequences; such that the individual becomes entrapped in an insurmountable vicious cycle of cause and effect. This self-administered mental incarceration persists until death, when the individual must proceed with the full magnitude of his mental baggage to the next realm, until his time of repose or penance elapses; and the reliable agency of reincarnation once more closes down upon him. His mental baggage is again submerged into his sub-conscious mind, there to serve as the architectural framework of his destiny. Those who formulated the maxim that man is the architect of his own destiny, must surely have been the great spiritual adepts, who can directly witness the mechanisms of human karmic unfoldment.

So, the sub-conscious mind depicts that colossal depository of the summation of the imprints of one’s previous lives thoughts, speeches, emotions and deeds, there condensed as tendencies awaiting the conducive moment for their germination onto the conscious mind, which depicts the instrument via which one’s personal reality can be materialised. The conscious and sub-conscious minds can be equated to an uncultivated agricultural terrain, in which case the conscious mind depicts the topsoil; while the sub-conscious mind poses as the sub-soil within which are embedded dormant seeds; such that given conducive meteorological factors, these dormant seeds would sprout onto the topsoil, with such uninhibited profusion, and to the farmer’s delight or discontent, depending on their desirability or undesirability.

En passant, it should be intimated that the law of karma governs all those territories and universes where mind poses as the mediating agency between the soul and its subject of experiences; and this comprises those planes of existence from the mental or intellectual dimension via the astral abode, right down to the physical realm; including the animal, vegetable and mineral kingdoms. This cosmic adjudicator spares none of these realms indeed. In these regions of its mandate, adherence to the law is dictatorial and irrevocable. Nonetheless, in the realms of pure unblemished spiritual energy, for instance; from the third dimension of consciousness, which is just above the intellectual realm, the mandate of the law of karma lapses into cessation. This is because on those exalting realms, an entirely different law applies; and that is, the law of unconditional love and grace. That is why the scriptures state:

If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.

(1 Corinthians 13:3)

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