I have adopted the system of abhipsa, surrender and renunciation; I am gradually progressing on this path.The scriptures say that the elimination and liberation of accumulated karma is absolutely necessary; only after that can one progress in spirituality be made. Can accumulated karma be eliminated by surrender and abhipsa? On this point, Shri Mataji, please guide you in the light of the views of Shri Aurobindo.
Yes this is what is said in some scriptures. The Sanchit karma are the accumulated energy of our past actions. They are the imprints stored somewhere within us that we carry as baggage. Prarabdha is a selection from this accumulated store that we have to exhaust through experiences in this life. Though the mind gives positive and negative value to these experiences because of ignorance, they are simply a mechanism to learn and grow through the consequences. Finally the kriyaman are the fresh karmas of this life that goes into our Sanchit store eventually.
On the face of it this looks a harsh law of reward and punishment. But if we look closely it is simply a law of evolution through which the soul develops from its seed state to the tree of divine consciousness by the process of consequences and learning. It is like a child going from class to class. Same way we move from life to life, learning through the process. Once the soul has completed this primary schooling in ignorance, then the rest of Sanchit karma automatically drop off except some rare utkat karmas such as suicide and homicide. That is how the Brahmavaivarta Purana describes it.
By knowledge (true knowledge or Vidya) the Sanchit karmas automatically drop off except the Prarabdha of this life.
Then, by practicing desireless or nishkama karma, action without attachment to the fruits or results, the kriyaman karmas are not created. It is so because karmic imprints are created through attachment (moha) not by action itself.
Finally the Divine Grace can completely including the Utkata karma.
This is the truth of the law of karma which is an inbuilt schooling process as we move from ignorance to knowledge, from darkness to light.
Affectionately
Alok da
