Karma moves like a current in the sea… like the flow of the wind on a chaotic breezy day. It carries you, families, and nations wherever it does.
Feeling into someone’s karma may prompt you to warn them or inform them of what you feel and see. You may just think you could tell them, “Hey, look at this. Now that you see it, just snap out of it.” But of course, it is not so simple.
Karma overtakes people by casting a spell, by putting them into a sort of trance state. Once in that state, it seems they have no choice but to think, act, and believe in accord with the current of that trance, where ever it leads. At first it is a frightening thing to witness. In time, you understand and act artfully in your dealings with the world of winds of karma.
Why are people so susceptible to the winds of karma? Because we all long to fly. We long for frictionless flow in our lives. In fact, such natural flow is your birthright. Note there are karmic winds yet there is also the Cosmic Flow, the Cosmic Current that is one with the depth and breadth of all that is. A frictionless Divine Current underlies all that is, just as the silent stillness at the depth of the ocean underlies all the chaotic waves on the surface.
Your physiology is designed to evolve. It evolved into existence. Evolution is its way, its nature, it’s sustenance in life. Evolution culminates with a Being who has caught the Cosmic Wave, the natural flow of their Divine Essence.
The physiology evolves in that direction. It longs for the Cosmic Wave. Yet all along the way, karmic waves ensnare your life through that same mechanic of the physiology… the longing to catch The Wave.
Your affinity for your karma is really just misplaced trust. You long for God. As a result of that longing, you grasp at karmic waves, which then capture you and carry wherever they do, throughout the ages.
I implore you. Do not stop until you find the Cosmic Wave and allow it to catch your sail.
Dear Maharshi,
That is so scary! I wish I could tell the difference between a karmic wave (yikes) and cosmic wave. I hope I don’t lose my way.
Awe-some blog!
This is so insightful as to why it can be sooooo challenging to move past the chains of Karma.
So helpful and gives such great expression to the experience.
Thank you again and always Dear Maharshi.
Beautiful! As you have said many times Maharshi, life is A-Maz-ing. Sometimes I have a really hard time when I feel that someone dear to me is caught up in the maze of life. It seems so hard to just let nature work it all out, and not attempt to impose my will on life. I can just be so sure that I am right, and that I know what would be best. This line of thinking, however, seams to be out of harmony with nature and seems to take me further away from that which I wish for.
Thank you so much, Maharshi, for this timely conversation about Karma.
I wonder if it’s possible that small experiences of Karma can bring you closer to the Cosmic Flow. Sometimes when Karma hits, it seems to knock me out of me normal habit trance.
For me I read this and feel it is like balm on a wound… Thank you. Artful yes. and more work to do.
Simply amazing.Everyday I bring into my awareness to loosen my grip…on everything.I work on my conditioning to shift away from my notion of “how things should be” ie..we can have an enlightened world and still have war.(I was listening Maharshi)This blog prompted a deep sigh while my head was spinning.So So much yet to be revealed.I am listening Maharshi..I WILL keep showing up.
Beautiful comments here. Yet when I feel the inclination to respond, I see the response is already contained in the blog. Just look to the wind. Sometimes choppy. Sometimes sublime currents like the ones the gliding bird rides. The answers to life truly are blown in the wind. It is just a matter of catching the right wave… but now I am repeating myself. The Rishi sees. The Maharshi sees and speaks out what he sees and… well… then the Maharshi repeats himself. It is all very beautiful.
Beautiful! Thank you for such a reflective, insightful comment.
Jai Guru Dev