Supplement II : How to get over the effect of the Adi Karma?

II.  KARMAS AS EXPLAINED IN THE VARIOUS WRITINGS AND SPEECHES OF REVERED LEADERS OF RADHASOAMI FAITH, RADHASOAMI SATSANG, DAYALBAGH.

(Compiled by DR. PREM SARAN SATSANGI)

HOW TO GET OVER THE EFFECT OF THE ADI KARMA?

(Excerpt of the Bachan (Discourse) delivered at Courtallam on 14.6.1934 by Param Guru Sahabji Maharaj on ‘How to get over the effects of  Adi Karma’)

            It is this last method of killing by starvation which is employed in the Radhasoami religion for destroying the root of the Adi Karma. For it is the desire to associate with mind and matter which is responsible for all your subsequent desires. The tree has taken root in your Jiva Atma. In that very soil sow another seed – the seed of the desire to reach the purely spiritual regions.

            Now there are thousands of persons who want Moksha. They have the desire for Moksha, and it is under the influence of that desire that they become seekers and study our religion. The seed is there but it requires watering. It is the business of the Satguru to give proper nourishment to the seed.

            Here I would like to explain the rationale of the method of our abhyas, so that it may be clear how the latter is efficient for getting over the effects of the Adi Karma, Our ordinary desires spring from the heart. But the seed of the Adi Karma, which is responsible for our downfall, is located higher up. Hence a Satsangi is required to direct and concentrate his attention over and over again at that centre. This is the method of dhyana by which the attention is engrossed at that centre; and when concentration takes place there, feelings of intense love for the Satguru and the Supreme Being arise. In other words, biraha is born and proper soil is found for the seed, so that when the devotee performs the abhyas of sumirana and dhyana under the stress of biraha, the Satguru projects into Him His spirituality. Just as each solar ray carries at its head the form of the sun, which form is reproduced by the concentrated passage of the ray through a magnifying glass, in a like manner does the Satguru project His spirituality which becomes concentrated by sumirana and dhyana at the sixth chakra. By this process of intensification or concentration, does the Satguru’s form become manifest within the devotee. Thus does he get the darshana of the Satguru, after which the desire to reach the Eternal Home becomes dominant, and ultimately the desire becomes all powerful. The result is that all the other desires get dried up. At the same time the Satguru gives the devotee an opportunity to attend the Satsang. This is the tree watering. The sapling grows and grows and becomes a mighty tree. The growth of the tree depends on the shrivelling up of the other plants on the soil – the plants of other desires.

            The long and short of it is that the desire to associate with mind and matter brought us down; and when in the course of our spiritual progress that desire gets more and more subordinated to the desire to reach the purely spiritual regions, are the effects of the Adi Karma rendered more and more nugatory. The Adi Karma pulls us down with a certain amount of force and if the love for the Supreme Being pulls up with a stronger contrary force, it will overcome the resistance of the Adi Karma.