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The Meaning of
Karma and How
You Can Break Its
Grip
What is the meaning of karma? Karma is not
existences reward or punishment system as
people seem to think. Sadhguru dispels this
notion and explains that whatever kind of karma
you have, it restricts and binds you - unless, you
know how to loosen its grip!
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What is the meaning of karma?Karma is not existences reward or

punishment system as people seem to think. Sadhguru dispels this
notion and explains that whatever kind of karma you have, it restricts
and binds you unless, you know how to loosen its grip!

Sadhguru:Karma literally means action. We are referring to past

action. From the moment you were born till this moment, the
kind of family, the kind of home, the kind of friends, the things
that you did and did not do, all these things are in uencing you.
Every thought, emotion and action comes only from past
impressions that you have had within you. They decide who you

are right now. The very way you think, feel and understand life is
just the way you have assimilated inputs. We call this karma.

The Karmic Software

In modern terms, I would say it is the current software on which
you are working. Your whole system your body, mind, energy
and emotions is programmed because of the impressions that
you have taken in. A complex amalgamation of all these
impressions is your karma. Whichever way your software is, that
is the way your mind, emotion and body function. Even your
energy moves that way.
Whatever kind
of karma you
have, it is a
limited
possibility and
that is what
makes you into
a limited
person.
Depending on
what kind of
impressions
you took in,
whether it was
hatred and anger, or love and joy, you accordingly have a certain

kind of personality usually every human being is a complex

mixture of these things. Once you allow this karmic structure to
build beyond a certain point, there is really no such thing as
freedom. Everything that you do is conditioned by the past. So if
you want to move in the direction of liberation, one of the

rst

things that you need to do is to loosen the grip and shackle of

karma. Otherwise, no movement will happen.

Break free!
How do you do that? One simple way is to break the karma
physically. In the morning if your karma is to wake up at 8
oclock, you set your alarm for 5 oclock. Your bodys karma is
that it will not want to get up. But you say No, I am going to get
up. Even if it gets up, your body will want to sip co ee. But you
give it a cold shower. Now, you are just breaking the old karmic
process by consciously doing something.This is not the only way,
there are other subtler and more e ective ways, I am just telling
you the crudest possible way. What you dislike, you have to do it
consciously. What you like you can do it unconsciously, isnt it?

Check out a preview of the DVD, Karma Your Own Making,

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