Karma:

Enlightened living and higher consciousness.
By Guru Ranjit

Karma means action and reaction, cause and effect, the cycle of action and its consequences. Actions can be divided into two broad groups: those with a selfless motive, which are rare, and those with selfish motivation, which are common. Selfish actions can result in joy or pain, or a mixture of the two. They always create more karma, complication, and bondage because worldly desires tend to keep us stuck in worldly, karmic existence.

“The practice of karma yoga is a path to freedom from karma and its effects.”

Karma and consciousness

There is good and bad karma. A body-mind will always have some karma, some process of activity which keeps it acting and reacting. Consciousness, on the other hand, transcends Nature and is free from karma. Therefore, the more conscious and aware we become and the more we identify with our real self or our higher consciousness, the more freedom and choice we experience. Awareness is the ultimate tool we use to liberate ourselves from the bondage of karma.

Through the practice of karma yoga, we develop greater awareness. We witness the quality of our actions, how they are filled with desires, expectations, hopes, and fears.

Karmic theory

Karma is patterns or habits in our body-mind, in our nervous system, in our thinking and emotions, and in the actions we perform every day. Our thoughts, emotions, and desires have a way of repeating themselves, and these form karmic patterns.

We inherit some of these patterns at birth, and some we create over the course of our lives. A karmic pattern can be a strength or a weakness. We can find it difficult (perhaps impossible) or easy to change.

We need to develop awareness of our patterns. We can do this through meditation and self-study.

Once we identify our patterns, we apply yogic techniques that allow us to act on our patterns—to respond to them, changing those that we can and accepting those we cannot. Acceptance of weakness is a great strength. It is an outcome of authentic meditation, arising from the cultivation of self-knowledge and self-love.

For example, we may have a digestive problem, perhaps as a result of worry or anxiety. This health pattern undermines our energy, so we are motivated to work on it.

We may then choose to address the cause of the problem. We may change our eating habits and other lifestyle factors, and we may engage in more powerful healing yoga methods such as breath work. Thus the old patterns may fade over time as we modify them with the new patterns we are consciously creating.

Karma and meditation

The root cause and nature of our karmic patterns can only be fully understood through meditation, which is the most important yogic tool for managing karma. By developing awareness, we can clearly see our karmic patterns in action and respond to them. Meditation also gives us a calmer, less emotionally reactive mind and nervous system, so that we can respond with more peace and wisdom and with less fear, anger, or attachment.

“ Positive karma negates negative karma in life cycle”.

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Meditation

Meditation is the art of listening with your total being. If one can learn how to really listen, one has learned the deepest secret of meditation.

Meditation practices are techniques that encourage and develop concentration, clarity, and emotional positivism. By engaging with a particular meditation practice, one learns the patterns and habits of the mind, and the practice offers a means to cultivate new, more positive ways of being. With discipline and patience these calm and focused states of mind can deepen into profoundly tranquil and energized states of mind.

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Meditation is about relaxation and self purification. Meditation is a practice that benefits mind, body and spirit. Through inner exploration, meditation awakens reativity, healing, and transformation. We spend most of our lives looking outward to the world, believing that the source of happiness, peace, and fulfillment lies external to ourselves. During meditation, we expand our internal reference point from local to non-local, from constricted to expanded awareness. Meditation allows us to explore our essential nature, restoring the memory of wholeness in our lives.

Mantra Meditation is a meditation technique that helps establish inner quietness in life, providing access to creativity and enabling us to make life-affirming choices.

Past actions create memories, which generate desires which in turn lead to new actions and wants. The seeds of these memories and desires are present at the level of our soul. It is this "feeling of the soul" that propels each of us to make choices that define our lives. Meditation helps us recognize that we are capable of making conscious choices that enable us to experience greater peace, love, and success.

By reducing stress and anxiety, meditation enables us to connect with our higher self - where energy, creativity and inner awareness are our natural state of being.

The purpose of meditation is to enrich all aspects of life: body, mind, and spirit.

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Raja Yoga

This is the highest form of yoga. ‘Raja’ means royal, and the meditation route to Self-Realization is considered to be just this.

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Hatha Yoga

Hatha yoga is mainly practiced for health and vitality. It is a mind body exercise to remove stiffness in the body and create flexibility.

Hatha yoga classes will provide you with a series of Asana (poses) and stretches, breathing practices and deep relaxation techniques for reducing stress. These techniques promote mental clarity and calmness as well as create an effective preventative health maintenance program.

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Tantra - the sacred weaving

Love yoga. Relax your mind and improve your sex life. Tantra, perhaps the most popular and yet most misunderstood of yoga teachings today, is a vast ocean of ancient wisdom for enlightening the mind and body.

Tantrica, Tantra or Sacred Tantric Practice, in its purest form, describes both the processes and methodologies for the resolution of all conflicts of opposites.

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Kundalini Yoga

Kundalini is meditative techniques and movements within the yogic tradition that focuses on psycho-spiritual growth and the body’s potential for maturation. The practice of kundalini yoga consists of a number of bodily postures, expressive movements and utterances, breathing patterns and concentration.
The practice of kundalini yoga give special consideration to the role of the spine and the endocrine system in the understanding of yogic awakening.

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