KARMIC ABSOLUTION

Synopsis

Karmic resolution is rearranging karma for greater happiness.  Karmic absolution is reducing karma (both “good” and “bad” karma) for permanent contentment.   Happiness is sensual and sensorial/sexual, and therefore temporary.  Contentment is spiritual and permanent.  The pursuit of happiness yields diminishing returns and usually increases karmic burden.  Karmic absolution yields increasing returns.  It is accomplished by traveling to the source of karma to learn what to do each day for either resolution or absolution.  

If we choose the absolution mode, we resolve to practice zero-residue karma, which completes karma from the past and produces no new karma to entangle us in the future.  When we complete all our karma, past and future are taken care of.  Then the present is infinite and time-space no longer limits our appreciation of life.  Our purpose if life is fulfilled.

This site is an integral part of our other karma-related websites:

KarmicResolution.org – Rearranging karma in the pursuit of happiness.

SourceOfKarma.org – Access to the flow of the primordial wellspring.  Can be used for karmic resolution and/or absolution.

CompleteYourKarma.org – The process of traveling to the source of karma, communing with the highest positive forces, and choosing to pursue either temporary happiness or permanent contentment.

ZeroResidueKarma.org – Systematic practices to lessen karmic burden (both “good” and “bad”).

 

Explanation

The pursuit of happiness, what we call “karmic resolution”, does not usually reduce karmic burden.  It is like rearranging the steps in a complex project to be able to complete them more easily, but it does not finish any of the tasks.  Karmic absolution is systematic achievement of each task, until all are complete and there is no karmic residue, nothing left that must be done or undone.  

Happiness is sensual and sensorial/sexual, and therefore temporary.  Contentment is spiritual and permanent.  The pursuit of happiness yields diminishing returns and usually increases karmic burden.  Karmic absolution yields increasing returns.

To efficiently complete our karma we must go to the source of karma.  It’s like consulting a faded map to find our way out of the jungle.  The source of karma tells us what has to be done at that time, but does not show us how to do it.  Nor does it give us the tools or resources for the task.  We need God’s help to understand the map and for the tools and resources for the journey.  We must pray with all our hearts for help on the path.  Whatever your religion or spiritual training, you need unceasing prayer to the highest positive power you know in order to understand your map and know how to use the resources at your disposal.

To absolve our karma, prayer alone is not enough.  We must also think and act with absolute resolve to complete all our karma and fulfill the purpose of our creation.  We must demonstrate perfect loyalty to the universe.  We received a body and environment because we begged and prayed for a vehicle to work out karma.  Somewhere in the early stages of this life, either at birth or before, we forgot our promise.  The social conditioning we received in childhood further blinded us to spiritual reality.  To be loyal to the forces that gave us life, we must dedicate ourselves whole-heartedly to fulfilling that promise.  

On the path of completing our karma we shift our pursuit from temporary happiness to permanent contentment.  Happiness can come at others’ expense, but contentment is always win-win – everyone advances spiritually.

Selfless service is the primary means of reducing bondage because it integrates you with the rest of humanity and ultimately, the rest of the cosmos.  There is no difference between you and any other being.  In our view, only service does this.  It is readily accepted everywhere.  It is a very powerful mode of giving acceptance and receiving acceptance.  Every other mode of living besides selfless service isolates you from some part of creation, and therefore is not as efficacious.

There are several stages of development:

  1. Gross selfless service  -- expectation of gratitude or recognition:  “I volunteer to serve without pay.”  You may say this while thinking, “I’m special because I haven’t been sucked into the money game, so I deserve special treatment.” The tendency to clutch and grab is still strong.  Even though this stage may be tinged by materialism and egotism, it marks the beginning of opening the heart to higher guidance.  One sign of reaching this stage is that increasingly powerful material world temptations attempt to blind you to higher guidance and keep imprisoned within your body.  
  2. Selfless service without expectation of gratitude or recognition: This opens you to a higher level of guidance.  The joy of giving lasts longer than the joy of getting that you sought at lower levels.   Action is motivated by the expectation of reward from above, either in this life or the hereafter -- “If I’m good, I’ll get good.”  That falls far short of absolute loyalty to the universe, which asks for nothing, and accepts everything as a blessing.
  3. Selfless service motivated solely out loyalty to the universe:  There is no sense of giving or taking.  The entire universe lays its resources at your feet.  Absolute loyalty, prayer, and meditation open our way to, the source of karma.  Only with detailed knowledge, and assistance from the highest positive forces (God), can we complete our karma through action that leaves zero residue.

Our site on karmic resolution explains service further, especially the section “Living in the Material World.“

Time

Time is an illusion artificially created by embodied souls to perpetuate the cycle of action and reaction.  When cause and effect cease, the illusion ceases.  We are no longer affected by cause and effect.  The material world and time-space remain as a small fraction of our expanded awareness, but they no longer have the power to delude us.  We enjoy permanent contentment and an infinitely intimate connection to everything.  We may choose to continue serving in our current vehicle or some other, but there is no sense of separateness or limitation in time-space.

Summary

Karmic absolution is completing all karma and fulfilling life’s purpose.  It is the goal of action and reaction, where the cycle of cause and effect ceases because they have no more reason to exist.  Their purpose has been fulfilled.  There is nothing left to do or undo, and no separation between part and whole, individual and universe.

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Copyright 2001 by Ponani Narayanan Sukumar

These concepts are based on personal experience of over forty years. They are presented for public dissemination and review for the first time on April 10, 2001. Revisions are planned and older versions will be archived. Any similarities to any writings or teachings except as specifically mentioned herein is not intentional. We have not found the key concepts presented here in any other writings or teachings anywhere.