Suffering and Karma

1. Karma is not an action, it is a reaction to an action
2. Whenever you go thru experience it is the resulting karma of an action that was performed long before
3. The purpose of a Guru, Astrologer or Pundit, is to warn you about that karma. That is why we consult with these people
4. The predictions of the future are based on positive or negative actions in the past
5. Whenever you are suffering, you have to ask the question: what did I do to create this present experience and what can I do to correct the karma of a negative action?
6. All happiness can be determined by the mind. If someone creates a negative action in the mind it will never affect your karma or create any suffering, however, if the negative action takes reality then suffering will take place. A good example is the spoken word, called mantra. Mantra is given by the Guru so as to eliminate or cushion the negative experience from a negative action that was created before.
7. The purpose of Ritual or Puja is to create an action that will cushion previous actions from parents or past life, which brings us to reincarnation.
8. There is nothing psychic about predicting the future simply because the psychic is only seeing the result of an action that the person had taken before.
9. The Guru, or the guide, is not your friend, but your connection to your soul. Your Guru is the one who will bring you to realize that the suffering you are experiencing is not the cause of someone else’s action but the cause of your own action.
10. If a person is suffering, they seek the Guru because they want to know first of all why they are suffering, and second, to bow humbly what can I do to correct my previous action or sin so that I may find happiness. Which leads us to something called Seva.
11. Seva is selfless service to the universe thru the Guru, which helps to eliminate bad karma and instead creates good karma and future happiness.
12. Simple actions such as lying, stealing, jealousy, gossip, greediness, and ego, can create very big karmic reactions. Even though no one may know that you are lying, your soul knows and keeps a record of that action. When you are jealous of a person, you are actually helping the other person, and when someone is jealous of you, they are helping you because jealousy is the result of greediness or lust. And so, an action and reaction is created between two people who may be jealous of each other
13. The greatest Temple is in the mind of the person. If a person never lies, cheats, gossips, or becomes jealous, that person will never suffer.
14. Truth and honesty saves an individual from suffering. Lying in any form will still create destruction and bad karma.
15. If a person is sick it is a result of past actions. For example: eating a lot of excess sugar will create diabetes. A simple action and reaction process. Eating too much red meat will create tumors.
16. The only way to be free of all karma is to become yogis. However, that is impossible for people who are living in the material world. So to balance your karma and enjoy both material and spiritual blessing, you have to perform Seva, or selfless service to the temple.
17. If a person happens to meet a divine teacher or holy figure, it is because of past life connections and/or prayers. And the person’s prayer has been answered in terms of seeking a new life and happiness.
18. REINCARNATION …..what will you become…what was you past life like ….prepare now for the next life, the next year, the next month, the next day and so on.
19. HELPING SOMEONE CAN BE BAD…TEACHING IS BETTER…..
20. THE GURU or Advisor absorbs you karma when he performs rituals and pujas for you
21. WHY DOES EVERYONE COME ONLY WHEN GURU IS THERE AND WHY THEY DO NOT COME WHEN HE IS NOT THERE?
22. WHY PEOPL IGNORE ADVICE WHEN THEY ARE IN THERE BAD CYCLE OR NUMBER?