excellent talk by Maharishi given in 1962, but here is my comment 2009: it is hard to follow Maharishi's advice( last few paragraphs ) during these extremely difficult times ; and it seems it was hard for Maharishi to follow his own advice;
this was given in 1962, so for a few decades, he did really well focusing only on positivity, it seemed to me, but then he started to call President Bush a rakshasa( a demon ); so these are truly difficult times for everyone but the advice Maharishi gave is still excellent and wise to try ones best --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" <r...@...> wrote: > > From an audio (No 8) recorded in Hochgurgel in 1962 > > (Thanks to Jörg Schenk) > > > Maharishi speaks about Karma > > Some selected points: > > Maharishi: Who is the doer (of the Karma)? The doer is the ego, the > mind. Although the senses perform the action, but the senses are not the > doer. The doer is the thinker within. So the thinker, as long as it is > associated with the body, it is associated with the body. But the doer is > that thinker, that subtle body, that Jiva. If he casts away this body, > goes to the other body, he will be caught by that action in the other body. > Body doesn't matter. What matters is the doer and what he has done.... > > As I was saying, the vibrations (of the Karma) return from the wall, from > the sun, from millions of miles. There are galaxies in the world from where > the light takes millions of years to reach the earth. When the vibrations > reach so far and strike against that and then will be rebound and come back, > millions of years have passed already. So the effect of the Karma done now > is not received all at once. It keeps on being received from time to time, > for (?) all eternity. > > The effect in the vicinity of the doer is maximum, but the effect is created > throughout the universe, whatever little effect at far distances, but it is > created and all this effect has to come back.... > > Every second that we are producing some Karma, we are storing the fruit of > that Karma to be born for millions of years.... > > Thoughts are the seed of Karma, very powerful seed. The seed in its seed > status is very potent. If you have thoughts of injuring a man, you have > injured the whole creation, already injured in the subtle state.... > > Future after death depends on what a man has done throughout life. But the > next goal, where he will be born, mainly depends on the desire at the time > of death, the desire at the time of death.... > > Question: Is there a difference of a bad Karma done intentionally or > unintentionally? > > Maharishi: Intentionally, because his attention was there, then the effect > will be more intensive. But the effect will be on the same line.... > > Question: If I have a bad son and have to beat him, is this bad Karma? > > Maharishi: It is the Karma of the son that brings him beating and it is > the Karma of the father that makes him sorry.... > > If I do some sin and in this room there is no one, I think nobody has seen > it. But it has been exposed to the whole universe. Everyone in the universe > knows it. And somehow that will be delivered to us back by all the agencies > in the universe, knowing or unknowing. > > You can't stop the evolution. If you commit sin in the room, then you are > creating sinful vibrations. And sinful vibrations means, wherever they go > they damage the evolution of that thing. > > Someone speaks ill of the other and plans damaging him, very underknees > plan, nothing on the surface, damaging the entire creation by his mischief. > Because the agency of thought is just vibration. That is why scriptures > forbid us speaking ill of others, or damaging someone or doing harm, because > apparently we seem to be harming him but eventually we have to be harmed by > our own doing of the harm to someone else. > > To save the doer the teaching is Don't do any bad thing to anyone. Don't > commit sin, go for virtue, help thy neighbour, so that thy maybe helped. > > In India we have the proverb that if someone speaks ill of the other he > partakes his sin.... > > If you call someone a fool, then the vibrations of foolery have been spread > in the whole creation and that foolery will return back to you, from all > sides. > > Because man has that highly evolved nervous system. This great > responsibility is on to man and not to animals. The responsibility of good > and bad deeds, sin and virtue, this is for man and not for animals. Because > man is in that position to understand how the Karma acts, how his action > influences the whole creation and then he is influenced back by the same.... > > Try to do all good that you can, all your energy in doing good, but don't > put your energy in criticizing the bad of someone. It is a waste of energy. > Because, now when you are meditating, you are bringing that stable state of > bliss consciousness in your mind. That is sublimenting the state of the > mind. At this state, if you keep on bringing bad things talking ill of > others and thinking of sin done by others then you are neutralizing the > power that you are gaining from the absolute.... > > Nothing is more elevating than bringing the mind to the absolute being and > nothing is more damaging than talking something bad or reflecting something > sinful. Nothing is more damaging than this. Getting to the transcendent is > the direct way to heaven and talking ill of someone or thinking bad of > someone or reflecting on the sin done by someone is a direct way to hell. > No greater crime can one commit than talking ill or thinking ill of > something done by someone. Save yourself from your mind going to the bad > things. > > You do good to the extent you can do, but don't think of bad done by > others.... > > The responsibility is more on to those who are more evolved. Now we are all > on the path on very swift, high evolution and therefore we have to be > extremely cautious what we think and what we speak. Don't bring bad things, > wrong things done by others to your mind and don't let that mind be spoiled > which is infused with God consciousness. >
