This theory is concerned
with the nature of karma, a Hindu concept based on cause and effect. We
are used to hearing of karma in terms of good and bad but this is a
misconception. Good and bad are concepts unique to our situation and
based solely on survival in this world; that which promotes survival is
considered to be good and that which threatens it is considered bad.
Certainly we can attach ideas of good and bad to it but it has nothing
to do with the nature of karma itself, the soul will always survive.
Karma is desire; the force of life. Those desires that caused us to
exist. To consider karma in terms of good and bad confuses the issue,
inhibits our ability to pursue Dharma, that state of perfect oneness
with That which is All.
It is desire that has created us and we have created the universe that
we may exercise choice, that we may satisfy those desires. We all have
desires; some simple others impossibly complex, and we have come to
attach judgment to the idea of desire. In the western world we assume
sex to be the root of desire but this is foolish. Sex is only one, and a
very small one, aspect of desire. One may even assume that it is not
desire at all. It is rooted in hormones and bodily functions outside of
conscious control and consequently not subject to free will, and desire
is exclusively an aspect of free will, an integral part of the process
that generates us; creates us, or rather creates our physical body, our
person that carries a name. Karma is inextricably bound to free will. It
is desire that made us! Not the desires of another but our own desires,
or rather the desires of our predecessor. One might even assume that
that is what our soul is; a conglomerate of desires unfulfilled, but
really our soul is that aspect of us that is God, our being is those
desires that keep us separate from Him until they are fulfilled.
In our life we accrete desires in our quest for being, a being, in
aspect separate from the Universal Being, though nothing can truly
separate from That Indivisible One. Some of these desires we satisfy and
some we cannot satisfy due to many things, but when, in this life we
have passed all possibility of satisfying any more of our desires, we
die and these desires which we have not satisfied are set free and
collect in another place that is not this universe. I compare that place
to an electrical capacitor; a device that holds an electric charge until
something releases it. If you have ever worked with a photo flash unit
you have experienced the action of a capacitor. The battery in that unit
can deliver little electricity if attached directly to a light bulb, but
if it is used to feed a capacitor which stores the charge it can release
a massive jolt for the tiniest part of a second that sets off the flash
much brighter than the battery would seem to provide. That place, that
other place that is not this universe is capable of holding desires, a
seemingly small force, and when it is full releasing that force in one
single burst that becomes a being. That being is not the one who
provided the desires that made it, but unique, able to create and
sustain a person or being where these desires can be satisfied. The
person or being is the carrier of desires and at death releases those
desires, like the electrons in a circuit, that creates a new person to
continue the task of exhausting those desires that gave it being, that
keep it, in our perceptions, separate from the One. One might surmise
that if that person led a perfect life all desire would be exhausted and
at death there would be nothing to generate another life, and it would
be like the Buddha, it would be finished. But who among us can be so
perfect? Who among us can be so in communication with the soul to know
just what desires to pursue and to have the courage to do so?
We all chase after what we want but usually lack the courage to simply
harvest all that we desire and we settle for part, or simply wimp out
and do without, often amassing more desires than those we had when we
began. Perhaps then, with our death not one but two or even more persons
will be generated, each with the exact amount of desire that can be
satisfied by that one life, in a being perfectly made for that purpose.
In this case the soul would be one in each of these persons, yet perhaps
somehow connected to each other, which may explain the affinity we find
with those that are strangers but seem to be known to us in some way
inexplicable. Or perhaps we will generate a being like Alexander who
spent thirty-two years satisfying colossal desires and burning out or
going who knows where.
Then we can consider the aspect of one who dies leaving only the tiniest
bequest of desires; not enough to actually generate a life, or perhaps
only a very short life. We know of infant deaths, perhaps these are
beings whose inheritance of desire was entirely satisfied by only days
or months of life and there was no longer a reason for them to live,
they die a true Buddha and we should rejoice in their passing. We
consider death a loss but for these it is entirely a gain and in truth
death is a gain for all of us; we are able to give that life that we
have used, not fully but have passed the opportunity to complete and can
give it into a new being that may finish what we started or rather what
started us.
Another possibility of one who dies with scant desires would be that
these desires simply go to feed that super-capacitor which is then added
to by another’s death to eventually spark a new life. From my own
perceptions these two beings need not arrive at death at the same
instant, the desires seem to be held for a time, if one can infer time
in this dimension, and join with another that is complementary to those
already there. So then the person so generated would be powered by the
desires of two or more different souls. There is another possibility that
the two or more may not be complementary. Perhaps this is the origin of
schizophrenia, when two conflicting desires are housed in the same
person, or perhaps even three or more. Little is understood about this
condition and the way of treating it is to take away the persons drive
to satisfy desires, to make them comatose to their being. It is possible
that there would be drugs that could selectively suppress one persona
allowing the other or others to dominate. Alcohol may be one of these
drugs, or nicotine. I find that alcohol frees my verbal abilities while
putting to rest my graphic sensibilities. Of the two most recent
incarnations that I house, one a poet and the other a guru, the guru has
currently been at rest for several years allowing another persona from a
very long time ago to come forth. This particular persona is largely
concerned with artistic form and color, aided by the original being the
tool man, Vishwakarma, that primordial incarnation from the I AM.
At any one moment in time there are many people dying; at the current
population about 180,000 people die every day, that’s about two every
second and the birthrate slightly exceeds that amount. As a race we are
probably not exhausting desire but actually increasing it; no surprise
with the number of people employed in advertising. Add to this the
influences of parental desires grafted on to their offspring and also
the hype attached to nationalism which seems to be the opposite of
desire, rejection, hate. Just as a penny has two sides desire has its
tail side; hatred, no different but only with a different face.
From all this one would think that to exhaust desire would lead us to
death and this is no doubt true, but this would be a death to celebrate.
I can think of no greater joy than to die leaving nothing undone in my
life. This is a life of striving and to go to a place without strife,
where all desire has been satisfied seems to me the greatest good. A
state where one has united self with that Universal Self that is All
Being where good and bad no longer have place, where desire is itself
being. Where our being is but the I Am!
So then we come to the matter of good and bad karma. If, as I’ve
postulated, we would die leaving no desires unsatisfied we must then
pursue that which powers us with the greatest dedication possible. There
are desires in us that society would not find laudable but they cannot
be denied if we are to satisfy all. We must understand the judgment of
society but with courage put it aside and pursue that which drives us.
Religion would have us repress those desires that lead to social chaos
but this would be to give the world much more than its due. This world
has only one purpose in being; it is the vehicle that we have made to
complete our fate. We have made it, and we must honor it by using it
fully.
We should consider that all desire is desire for God. God in his
ultimate Being is love and since there is nothing but God, that love is
the Love of God for God. Those who reject the Christian format will
please excuse the use of the capital letters but understand that we must
in this life work with names and the Spirit, Allah, The Buddhist Great
Unmanifest, Ahura Mazda or whatever we call That which lies at the heart
of our being is that Love which transcends all being. Those bodily
functions which we label as lust or sloth or gluttony or greed are but
attempts to reach that ultimate state of Being which we hold at our
core, our soul. Or more correctly our soul which is at our core holds
us. If our life force leads us to seek satisfaction in what society
forbids or deplores we must take our courage; our heart, in hand, and
finish it. Pity the poor soul whose desires lead him to the most
unsavory or horrid actions, but do not condemn him, for there, but for
the Grace of God, go each of us. Be thankful that those desires that
power our being offend only slightly our sensibilities.
He who finds himself driven by desires which offend his senses needs to
look deep into himself and find where those desires live and how they
can be Desire for God., for in truth they are that. He must find that
love within his being that is God within him. We cannot entertain
desires which interfere with the free will of others though such desires
are common in our society. How such desires can be the force that drives
a person or a soul must be found and understood. Perhaps this is the
Christian idea of Satan or demons or evil but I sincerely doubt it.
More, it is the denial of desires that are right and good that twist a
person, that leads a person into hatred and condemns him to an ever
repeating pattern of lives that continue until that person can somehow
find the tool that turns over the coin to the positive side. A soul
which is God within us cannot be evil but it can be twisted and tortured
into the pursuit of evil.
Religion, faith, ideals are all systems that are built on a consensus of
teachings that we have gotten from others. They are grafted on to that
force which created our being. They have come from our parents or our
teachers or simply our fears but they have little to do with the great
quest that powers our being. Most usually they are the social influences
that attempt to make our society controllable, often the result of
others in pursuit of their own karma, their own desires, to whose
advantage it is that our actions be predictable that they may achieve
their own desires. Understand that these souls are ethereal; your own
creation, there to assist in your path, though often they would appear
to dissuade you from that path, this only to strengthen your momentum on
that path. Here I suggest what all our senses deny, that we are all that
is, that all around is just a shadow that we have created to assist us
in our separate being. Like a drop of water thrown up in the surf by the
ocean that is the Eternal we have created an atmosphere of separateness
until we can fall back into the Eternal, united with the One that is All
that is. We have not sought this separateness but we exist in it, having
form and substance of which the Eternal has no need, but only an
inevitable consequence of non-being that results from that one fact of
“I AM”.
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