KARMA AND REINCARNATION

Law of karma  is not a punishment but it's goal is directed towards our liberation. It protects us from total annihilation or condemnation.
Karma guides people through their incarnations to discover Beauty,Goodness,Righteousness,joy,Freedom,Striving and Service.Karmic laws develops our intellect,our love and will power.
Karma is explained as the law of Cause and Effect. Any event is the effect of many causes,and any cause can be the result of an effect.

"THE LAW OF CAUSE AND EFFECT "
This law applies not only to that which we see around us,but it also applies to our emotions,thoughts,actions and words.
  When a person thinks, he sends "thought seeds" into space.whatever he speaks, his reaction ,his actions are seeds in space.These seeds are going to grow and someday he must face their results.
The greatest teaching of LORD BUDDHA  is to be conscious enough to know what caused that which is happening now.If one eliminates causes he eliminates results.(Effect). No one can escape from this law .

More psychic and spiritual people call it the "LAW OF THE ECHO ".This means that you will forever face the consequences of any action ,thought ,emotion or word in the form of its echoes in all levels.(first physical second echo is emotional third is mental and fourth echo is spiritual.)

Karma is also called the "LAW OF COMPENSATION ".
Compensation is the sensitive understanding that whatever is given to you must be returned.

Some dervishes referred to karma as "THE LAW OF MIRROR". Our life is a mirror reflecting what we are. Emotional hangs-ups and ways of living are exactly the reflection of what we have done before.
We try to change the reflection instead of changing ourselves.It was called the "SCIENCE OF HYPOCRISY " .This is what we do day and night .
Karma is a battle between what you do and what you want to be .We must learn to take only those actions which are parallel with what we want to be .If there is a conflict ,there is karma.
Another name for karma is the "MOVING SCALES" .
A person is like a scale .Anything he puts in his nature will elevate or lower him .There are echoes coming to him from previous actions and previous lives in five days or five hundred years later .
Karma is sometimes called the "LAW OF SELF -MADE TRAPS".
A person is trapped in his wrong doings ,wrong words ,wrong thinking and wrong emotions ,he becomes trapped by his own creations .
Karma is also called the "LAW OF PAYMENT " .Whatever you pay to Nature ,Nature gives back to you .  This is why it is important to be righteous with yourself and with others .

"FIVE JEWELS THAT REVEAL KARMA "

1  "PHYSICAL CONDITION ".
Our physical condition is the balance of actions we have taken AGAINST the law of nature and those actions taken IN HARMONY with the law of nature. If you over spend the resources of the body ,emotions ,and mind ,you act against the law of Nature .

   2      "EMOTIONAL BODY ."
Our emotional body is the result of our emotional reactions ,imagination ,and manipulative activities .It is not the result of what people feel about us .
Reactions create certain formations in the emotional body when they crystallize in the aura. Tibetan master says that we must start developing divine indifference .When a person pities someone ,he duplicates in himself the same body of emotions as the one he pities .

3          "MENTAL BODY ".
If a person thinks evil ,evil forms in his mind .If he gives good thoughts ,good is formed in his mind .We must make our thoughts pure and beautiful.

4  "THE  DEGREE OF DEVELOPMENT OF THE SOUL ".
(a) The service we have rendered to others
           Service means to live ,talk ,act ,and think in ways that increase the light and joy of others.
(b) The degree of self renunciation
          It is freedom from ego ,freedom from imposing will ,fanaticism and traditions upon others .It is exact opposite of manipulation.
(c)The joy that we feel for the success and beauty of others
         It is a condition where jealousy can not exist .
The service is a gift from God .our field of service is the result of sacrifices we have made for the world .If you have a field of service ,it means that you demonstrated sacrifice in the past .If your field of service is great ,it means that you graduated from the LAW OF SACRIFICE in the past .

5  YOU ARE WHAT YOU WANT TO BE
What you are is what you want to be Consciously or unconsciously .Face yourself and see what you are .

HOW WE INCREASE AND MULTIPLY OUR KARMA

1. Karma increases when you obey the urges and drives of your physical ,emotional ,and mental bodies and act under the command of these bodies. If we use slander ,malice ,gossip and treason ,we will pay a very heavy taxation .
2. When we disappoint or humiliate our spiritual teacher ,we create complicated karma .
3. We create a tremendous amount of karma when we do not live in justice ,observing the rights of others and our own rights .We must be righteous  .

    Karma multiplies as
1. If a person does something wrong
2. physically,his karma = 4*4= 16 times
3.  Emotional wrong = 4*4*4=64 times
4.Mental wrong =4*4*4*4=256 times
  5.Psychic wrong =4*4*4*4*4=1024 times
       Psychic karma is a blend of soul and personality ,egoic karma which is blinded soul mixed with emotions ,mind ,urges and drives .
6. When we live a life in hypocrisy ,we multiply and increase our karma.Do not pretend to be HOLIER THAN YOU .
7. Karma multiplies if a person changes sexual partners frequently .It pollutes the aura .It applies not only to physical sex but also to daydreaming, visualisation and imagination .It is more harmful than physical .To trap people and manipulate them through sex, creates heavy karma.
8. It is also a good karma when we feed any hungry person.
9. We should not do bad things to others, even if they do bad things to us .By this we do not build any karma.
10. If you take the joy of others by making them sad ,angry or crazy for your own advantage ,you will never have joy .Joy increases if you give joy to others.
     
TORKOM SARAYDARIAN
CHAPTER-1
(THE LAW OF CAUSE AND EFFECT)