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)
WHAT
WAS THE ADI KARMA ?
(Excerpt
of the Bachan (Discourse) delivered at Courtallam on 14.6.1934 by Param Guru
Sahabji Maharaj on the Adi Karma)
The
Adi Karma does not imply any activity. It refers to the pre-creational
condition. In that condition there were certain spirit entities which had a tendency
– though that tendency differed in quality and extent – to associate with mind
and matter. It was this primeval downward tendency to associate with mind and
matter which we call the Adi Karma and which hurled down those spirit
entities from the high mansions of pure spirituality to the lower planes where
they had to assume bodies, peculiar to those planes – with the result that they
were enabled to associate with mind and matter on those planes in virtue of the
bodies they had assumed. Now the result of certain of their activities and of
their association with mind and matter was pleasure. The result of a
pleasurable experience was that a desire was produced for the repetition of
that experience over and over again. In the end result, the spirit entities
associated with mind and matter over and over again. Thus the downward tendency
in them has become more and more pronounced. Their association with mind and
matter has become firmer and firmer. That is the root cause of our weal and
woe, and we are now paying dearly for our association with mind and matter and
for the enjoyment which that association brings.
Our troubles do not unfortunately stop here. For when our desires are
exhausted, a fresh impulse comes from the Adi Karma, and we are hurled
down again. It would thus be seen that so long as the original seed, the Adi
Karma, is not destroyed, subsequent desires do not matter much. Hence the
emphasis in the teaching of the Satsang on the destruction of the original
desire. If that is not destroyed, the destruction of subsequent or intermediary
desires is useless. The Adi Karma is like the root and the subsequent karmas
like branches and leaves. It is the root that must be destroyed.
Was there mind and matter during pre-crestional condition? If associating with mind and matter is the primeval tendency of certain spirit-entities which is also known as Adi Karma then why it is necessary to eradicate it?
ReplyDeleteSpirit Entities and matter are things. But what is mind? Is it a thing or an action?
ReplyDeleteI have described mind as a functional state of nervous system.