Karma, Energy & Saadhna
Hari Om Namo Narayana!
(‘Ardhnarishwar is the ‘tantric’ representation of both ‘Shiva’ and ‘Parvati’)
If you haven’t read the previous part of this series yet, please do so.https://coachkaushal.quora.com/Tantra-and-Vedic-astrology-part-1
Every minute of our lives is a constant cycle of ’cause and effect’.
What you’re experiencing now is a result of a cause or set of causes in the past.
And what you’re doing now is creating ripples into the future farther than you can imagine.
The thing is, the only way to effectively clean your ‘karma’ is to work on constantly performing good ‘karma’ consciously and at the same time, bravely going through the results of bad ‘karma’ from past events, actions and maybe even lifetimes.
The moment you begin to achieve consciousness, you realise that the more conscious you become, the more conscious you become to the pain you feel and the pain that you have caused others.
Oh it’s something.. it’s something.. I wish that if you ever go through this experience, you somehow have a faith deep enough to hold you strong.
Because if you don’t, there are people who can’t handle it.
It’s tough to stay within the material plane and continue to engage in ‘conscious action’ while at the same time realizing that everything you engage in and that feels true and ‘real’, really isn’t so.
This is why I love ‘tantra’.
Because in ‘Tantra’, the energy of Goddess ‘Durga’, the divine mother, ‘Adi Shakti’, is so all encompassing and inclusive that not for a moment do you feel there is an aspect of your psyche that is not worthy of being honored.
That’s the beauty of it.
‘Durga’ is ‘Durga’, the divine godhead himself, the divine mother herself, the divine power herself and the divine feminine, ‘Adi Shakti’.
As ‘Kaali’ with sunken eyes, dried up flesh and blood curdling cries, she is still who she is. As Parvati, beautiful, fair, soft and calming, in white, she is still the same.
No part of her is less worthy of respect or acceptance.
As an old widow, in the form of ‘Dhumavati’, she is just about as powerful as she is, holding a golden cudgel, dressed in striking yellow, in the form of ‘Baglamukhi’.
No part of her is less powerful no matter what the outer experience or impression.
In fact, there’s a lot lot more to be explored and you can read lots of stories in the ‘Shiva Purana’ as well about ‘Shiva’, ‘Shakti’ and their immortal bond.
They drift apart, they meet again, they reunite and in the end it is all but an illusion because both of them are the same.
See the only way to realise that life makes sense, creation makes sense and living in this false world and experiencing it, enjoying it, makes sense, is to understand the concept of energy.
All energy is constantly trying to come to a balance.
This, when all of the universe is constantly expanding.
And all imbalances in this system, are constantly propagating forward, while searching for a way to balance themselves out.
Too abstract?
Maybe.
I wish there were clearer plainer ways to put it.
There aren’t.
The only thing that is true in all of this, is that you can change the form of energy.
What this means is, you can change the present effects of actions that you caused in the past and also perform your ‘highest karma’ that absolves you, by transmuting energy.
‘Saadhna’ is one such way of doing it.
Look, the chart that you’re born with, is just a reflection of your ‘karma’ in previous lifetimes.
It will serve you and affect you for a little while, till the time you are still connected to your mother’s ‘karma’, which is I think around the age of 12.
As soon as you cross that point, you’re on your own.
Everything good or bad can be overshadowed by the power of your action.
And it is here that ‘saadhna’ can drastically change your life.
Imagine you were born with a debilitated Mars.
This will almost always point out towards issues in your solar plexus ‘chakra’ which is the energy center of Mars in the body.
Could point out to:
- gut issues on a physical level and
- confidence issues on a personality level.
- At an emotional level, points out to a lack of proper self expression
- and at a soul level, it points out to your soul being denied its true expression and desire over many lifetimes.
These ailments and handicaps you carry, the bad ‘karma’ that you have to undergo, can be nullified by transmuting this energy into devotion and discipline towards the right ‘mahavidya’ and seeking her blessings.
‘Mantras’ awaken the energies of that ‘chakra’ within your energetic system and this creates positive vibrations that give you both:
- The energy to bravely face the consequences of past ‘karma’
- and the power to perform good ‘karma’ even when faced with opposition and temptation.
The problem is however, that the process of doing so, is one that will:
- Open a barrage of past ‘karma’ all at once.
- Tempt you every step of the way.
That’s the issue with anything that helps you change permanently. You have to clear your dues first.
What this means is, if let’s say you are doing ‘Bhuvaneshwari Saadhna’ for the Moon.
- The initial effect shall be of you experiencing a lot of mental stress all at once because the Moon and the ‘chakra’ connected to it are being massively activated in the first step.
- As the second effect, your mind will be drawn towards everything that challenge its stability.
To be able to reduce these negative impacts to the most possible degree, you then need to resort to:
- Sacrificing physical comforts and luxuries
- Learning to use your setbacks as opportunities to embrace the reality that everything as you perceive it, are merely illusions of varying degrees of believability.
The trick is to understand that to have a better material experience, you need to transcend to a level where the material doesn’t effect you.
Imagine it for a second.
Imagine for a second to be in a mind space where you can recognize the fact that to succeed materially you need to be prepared to let go completely.
Where you are mentally so prepared to be able to withstand whatever is thrown your way just so you can rebuild independently and autonomously, that the very lack of what you seek doesn’t trouble you at all.
In fact no only does it not trouble you, you are consciously able to keep it at arms length from you.
This is how a ‘saadhna’ functions.
The purpose of the ‘saadhna’ is to disconnect you from your desire just to be able to align you with your highest ‘karma’.
Once you discover your highest ‘karma’, you can repay any ‘karmic’ debt faster than you can imagine.
Imagine a life where you know creating is firmly within your hands irrespective of the chart you were born with.
Hari Om Namo Narayana!
