{"id":877,"date":"2012-01-31T17:48:05","date_gmt":"2012-01-31T22:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.navamsa.com\/?p=877"},"modified":"2014-05-11T19:33:37","modified_gmt":"2014-05-12T00:33:37","slug":"karma-reincarnation-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.navamsa.com\/?p=877","title":{"rendered":"Karma & Reincarnation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Woody Allen said, \u00e2\u0080\u009cI believe in karma and reincarnation, because nothing else explains how I could get so far behind in just one life.\u00e2\u0080\u009d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/em>\"\"<\/span><\/a>Half the world\u00e2\u0080\u0099s population believes in reincarnation, which obliges us to be reborn again and again, working on our soul\u00e2\u0080\u0099s multiple-life lessons, like some poor kid who can\u00e2\u0080\u0099t get his college degree until he passes Ethics 101.<\/span><\/p>\n

Karma and reincarnation are linked. According to Universal Law, every action generates consequences sooner or later. Therefore, actions in one life may carry over into consequences of subsequent lives, creating conditions of happiness or sorrow for reasons we don\u00e2\u0080\u0099t understand.<\/span><\/p>\n

Karma is pretty complicated, which is why Mahatma Gandhi said, \u00e2\u0080\u009cAfter inventing karma, God was finally able to retire.\u00e2\u0080\u009d And because God wasn\u00e2\u0080\u0099t satisfied with just a \u00e2\u0080\u009cone-size-fits-all\u00e2\u0080\u009d karma, He actually came up with four different models.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00e2\u0080\u009cSanchita\u00e2\u0080\u009d karma is accumulated, like an eternal biography in which all of your actions in all of your lives are recorded for posterity. If you were Cleopatra in a previous life, it\u00e2\u0080\u0099s written. If you were naughty or nice, it\u00e2\u0080\u0099s been noted.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/span><\/a>\u00e2\u0080\u009cPrarabdha\u00e2\u0080\u009d karma is ripened, like fruit on a tree that falls when it\u00e2\u0080\u0099s now ready to be eaten. If your accumulated karma is a full deck of cards, your ripened karma is the hand you\u00e2\u0080\u0099re dealt, to play as best you can in this game of life.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00e2\u0080\u009cKriyamana\u00e2\u0080\u009d karma is action, the exercise of your free will. Perform good or bad deeds, chances are you\u00e2\u0080\u0099ll be rewarded appropriately. If it happens in this life, we jokingly call it instant karma.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00e2\u0080\u009cAgama\u00e2\u0080\u009d karma is thought, whether you act on it or not. Although it\u00e2\u0080\u0099s a grey area, the Bible warns us that it\u00e2\u0080\u0099s almost as bad to commit a sin in your mind\u00e2\u0080\u00a6<\/span><\/p>\n

Some people\u00e2\u0080\u0099s karma is \u00e2\u0080\u009cfixed\u00e2\u0080\u009d and no matter how much they try, they\u00e2\u0080\u0099re stuck with it. On the other hand, some karma is \u00e2\u0080\u009cflexible\u00e2\u0080\u009d, and if people exercise sufficient free will in performing right actions, they can rise above it.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/span><\/a>Your astrological birth chart provides a map of your current life\u00e2\u0080\u0099s karma, which is why astrology is considered a divine science. But it takes training, experience and judgment to assess the balance between fate and free will, which is why the practice of astrology is considered a divine art.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Woody Allen said, \u00e2\u0080\u009cI believe in karma and reincarnation, because nothing else explains how I could get so far behind in just one life.\u00e2\u0080\u009d Half the world\u00e2\u0080\u0099s population believes in reincarnation, which obliges us to be reborn again and again, working on our soul\u00e2\u0080\u0099s multiple-life lessons, like some poor kid who can\u00e2\u0080\u0099t get his college […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,26,6],"tags":[324,9,16,327,325,19],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.navamsa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.navamsa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.navamsa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.navamsa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.navamsa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=877"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.navamsa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1883,"href":"http:\/\/www.navamsa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions\/1883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.navamsa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.navamsa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.navamsa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}