Wednesday 16 August 2017

Supplement II : What was 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)



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.

2 comments:

  1. 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?

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  2. Spirit Entities and matter are things. But what is mind? Is it a thing or an action?

    I have described mind as a functional state of nervous system.

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