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Karma

In her prayer of May 17, 1914, Mother writes, “One day thou wilt be my head but for the moment turn thy gaze towards the earth.” When a disciple enquired what the phrase โ€œthou wilt be my headโ€ means, She answered that “The head is the original conceiving Consciousness. “Could you simplify the meaning of all this a little further for me? ๐Ÿ“–๐Ÿ˜Š๐Ÿ™๐Ÿป๐ŸŒผ

Head is the hub that conceives whereas heart is the hub that impels towards action.

What the Mother seems to be experiencing here, in

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Please help me understand the state of the soul for children and individuals who have severe mental disabilities and suffer, and have such a hard time in the world. For the examples below, I will give you–they have been diagnosed as “severely autistic.”๐Ÿ‘ฆ๐Ÿผ๐Ÿ‘ง๐Ÿผ๐Ÿ™‚๐Ÿ™๐Ÿป๐ŸŒผ๐Ÿฆ‹[…]

All these theories about karma etc are simply ways of trying to make sense of an imperfect world we are living in at present. This

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My question is how to deal with countless past mistakes that we can not correct, but that cause frustration and hopelessness in life. Many present conditions are due to the consequences of past deeds. How do we deal with this? There is always the thought that things would be different if I had acted in a different way.๐Ÿซจ๐Ÿ’ฅโณ๐Ÿ™„

‘Mistakes and errors’ are part of the evolutionary process and common to everyone. In the eyes of the Divine they are not mistakes but steps

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How do we reconcile the Gitaโ€™s teaching to surrender the results of action without obsessing overย Paapย andย Punyaย with the Jain emphasis on sin, guilt, and atonement, and what are Lord Shivaโ€™s (Mahadev) unique teachings that made him so beloved even by theย Asuras? ๐Ÿ”ฑ๐Ÿ๐ŸŒ™๐Ÿ‚โš–๏ธ

Paap and Punya are one among different systems created by the human mind to navigate their life. They are helpful and needed at one step

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If Karma is fundamentally a process of learning from ignorance rather than a system of punishment, how do we reconcile the suffering caused by “asuric” acts committed in that ignorance, and how can one maintain faith in the Divine’s control while struggling to see the spiritual purpose behind such cruelty? โš–๏ธโ™ป๏ธ๐Ÿชƒ๐Ÿ”„๐Ÿ™๐Ÿป

Yes, thank you for the question and your dilemma or confusion as you call it is quite understandable. In Indian thought, the root of evil

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Is the pursuit of brand names, company prestige, or wealth as a sign of “Good Karma” a valid spiritual measure, or do these external markers represent mere conditioning that distracts from the true reward of inner goodness and character development?ย ๐Ÿข๐Ÿก๐Ÿ‘จ๐Ÿผโ€๐Ÿ’ผโค๏ธโ€๐Ÿ”ฅ

All these ideas of people with good karma being born in wealthy families is nothing but populist notion. False pride and vanity can never be

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The principle of karma is based on progress and development, and the energy we release while performing any action (through emotions, thoughts, intentions, and actions) returns to us. So, does this energy come back in the next birth as well (which we might call destiny or Prarabdha)? And is the coming of this energy determined by the conscious entity or by nature๐Ÿคจ?

The law of Karma is ingrained in nature as part of a vast and complex process through which the soul evolves. But the soul has

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