You are meant to live this life in full power. You can have a great career, a great relationship, perfect health and become self realized, but do you really want to?
Sometimes it is easier to live in habit. Sometimes it is more comfortable to live how we do and be miserable, than doing something about changing the circumstance which can seem daunting.
That is why it is so important to be able to be guided along the way by a Master.
“karma is not just a metaphysical philosophy. It is real. Whatever you think becomes a reality in the invisible space-time complex of your soul and then this manifest in life after an appropriate lapse of time. That’s why it is very, very important to be positive. We should have only positive thoughts. If there are negative thoughts, we do not know what danger they may inflict upon us in this life and in the life to come, because the thought process is what creates karma.”
~ Dr. Pillai, Astroved Founder
from ‘Sayings of Paramahansa Yogananda’:
A man lamented that things were going badly for him. “It must be my karma,” he said. “I can’t seem to do anything.”
“Then you should make a greater effort,” the Master replied. “Forget the past, trust more in God. Our fate is not predestined by Him; nor is karma the sole factor, though our lives are influenced by our past activities. If you are not happy with the way life is turning out, change the pattern. I don’t like to hear men sigh and ascribe present failure to past-life errors; to do so is spiritual laziness. Get busy and weed the garden of your life.”
” I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables
—slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need. We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War’s a spiritual war . . . our Great Depression is our lives. We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires and movie gods and rock stars. But we won’t. And we’re slowly learning that fact. And we’re very, very pissed off.”
—Fight Club, 1999
First impressions…it’s a for-guys-action movie but… methinks that it is primarily a philosophical work.
Who else has stopped to question how they got to where they got in life by default?
You can be alive on your terms.
I was asked to talk about the epistemology I subscribed to when posting karma entries to this blog. After I looked up epistemology…
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The branch of philosophy that studies the nature of knowledge, its presuppositions and foundations, and its extent and validity
How can the thoughts from one lifetime be remembered in the next? The soul remembers it and seeks to be born in an
environment where these thoughts can be realized. The soul is just a collection of electrical energy. Through breath awareness, you can access to your soul; you can see and understand your future possibilities. Once you recognize the things that are waiting to happen, you can diffuse a lot of desires that are not life-supporting which you had created out of ignorance.



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