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Karma has been well explained in many commentaries of the Gita and in the Mahabharata. In other scriptures too it is referred to in.

some context or the other. Here only a brief summary is being given.

There is nothing original in what I am presenting here. I am only tabulating some essential points from those commentaries written by wise men of India.

First divide Karma into three categories.

Akarma

He who has reached the stage of total God-contemplation,has no duties to perform but his Karma remains.

He sees karma as akarma and akarma as karma.

This is the stage of akarma leading to salvation.

It is possible when karma is done with total detachment,morally, with no desire for the fruits of such karmas. It is a high stage of Yogic development.

Karma Vikarma

a) Sanchita or accumulated karmas of past lives.

b) Prarabdha: that portion of the accumulated karma which is alloted for the present birth.

c) Kriyaman is the karma we do in the present life.

a) Anti-parental karma.

b) Anti-family karma

c) Anti-society karma.

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births if the present birth is not the last one.

Results of these Karmas a) Akarma leads to salvation.

b) Vikarma leads to divine punishment, a terrible cycle of rebirths and endless sufferings.

c) Karma can lead towards akarma or vikarma. The akarma element leads towards salvation and the vikarma element towards bondage.

Elements of Karma

Karma thus has four elements as shown in the table earlier. That is being explained here.

The Sanchita Karma or the Total Accumulated Balance of Karmas.

It is only man that perform karmas and not animals which remain in what is called bhoga yoni or the form in which they have only to suffer or enjoy and can do no karma to liquidate or create more karmas as man can do.

Sanchita karma are karmas done by a person in his previous births as a human being only. Such sanchita karma is divided into two parts: the prarabdha or that part of sanchita which is alloted for the present birth. It has both positive and negative sides. Man's enjoyments and achievements spring from the positive part of it and unhappiness and failures from the negative part. This is what a good astrologer sees.

The other part of the sanchita can be called motivations created which can enter any time in the present life. Thus when a persons suddenly does an act which he least suspected that he could ever do, it may be the result of such a motivation. This is the result of the samskaras of previous lives. Human life therefore is the story of prarabdha and motivations for which believes in the effects of environment or heredity have no valid explanation. Human behaviour is thus moulded by four factors: environment and heredity, and prarabdha and motivations which have their origin in past lives.

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a) Acting according to one's own plans willingly.

b) Acting according to one's own plans unwillingly c) Acting according to someone else's plans willingly.

d) Acting according to someone else's plans unwillingly. In these four types of actions man has no choice. It is the compulsion of destiny that makes him do it all.

Note: When a person does all this without any sense of happiness he succeeds in liquidating his karma. When he grumbles and wants to force himself out of the situation he creates further meshes of karma for himself.

It is necessary to remember that no one can avert his prarabdha

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Aveshyameva Bhoktavyam kritam karma shubhashubham Prarabdha has to be suffered, both the positive and the elements in it. Without it the bondage of karmas does not get exhausted in even thousands of births.

The Yogi accepts it as wise person and allows it to exhaust itself.

The bhogi (the worldly) tries all tricks, gets trapped by astrologers, psychics and all other types of occultists and yet does not succeed in averting it. Some yogis who help others overcome actually postpone it to other births. That is not the nullification of prarabdha but only its postponement.

Kriyaman Karma

Kriyaman karma is the area in which man can make or mar his destiny. In this limited area alone he enjoys freedom of action. The karma done by him in this area either creates future karmas and a longer cycle of births and rebirths or leads to the liquidation of his karmas and paves the way for salvation in this or subsequent births.

It is again an area which materialistic cultures will find hard to accept. They will make an amalgm of all this and come out with a theory current in 1995 in the USA that each person can become

his own guru. There is also a six course in

avatarhood

It is a pure materialistic reaction to make money.

What then is kriyaman karma should be understood through the table given here. The efforts put in by a person yields its results.

An astrologer can predict it. Yet a person must know that the motivations springing from many past human births are always there

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