Commentaries by Vee Jay Attri during the Book Study – Secrets of Karma
Let us continue with our wonderful study from the Secrets of Karma. We are reading the chapter on karmic obligations. So far we have covered obligations towards the self, towards spiritual teachers, towards our parents, towards our family and our peer group. We shall now study the karmic obligations towards the country.
Karmic obligations towards the country
You have a karmic obligation towards your country that nurtures and supports you. It begins with a healthy feeling towards her.
This is a very important sentence. Radiating feelings of goodness, positive energy to the country you belong to or the country where you are living is extremely important. We have to remember that whether it is your home, your country or the world, all are just energy. The quality of the thoughts and the feelings you radiate towards your home, your country, your world, it makes a huge difference.
So, as far as possible, avoid talking anything ill of your own country, it is another thing sometimes we talk about politicians. This is discrimination. We need to understand what is happening but we are not going to use words such as, “In this country, it is like this, people will not change in this country!”
These kinds of statements that we have a tendency to utter is not actually making any positive, healthy contribution to the country. Whatever energy that is radiated to the country, we also receive it partly and whatever energy you are radiating to the country is received by your family, the society and the people of our country. That is the reason why, all the time you need to radiate lots of positive feelings towards the country that you are inhabiting.
The united positive feelings of the people towards their motherland will make a nation stronger, successful and more prosperous.
That means from time to time, apart from blessing your family, you also need to bless the country you belong to. As a matter of fact, we have a version of the Great Invocation adapted specifically for blessing the country. Sometimes, focused energy is needed when we are confronted with mighty challenges.
So, given that many of the countries are in a political and economic upheaval, it is very important that you channel specific energies to your country as well. Of course, when you are blessing the world, everything in it is also being automatically blessed.
But, specifically focusing the energy to a country helps you to disintegrate like a laser beam of light specific energies that are actually causing disturbance to the people. So, sometimes it’s a good idea that there is a special healing that happens to the country that you are inhabiting.
Do not talk ill of your country. This is like the man cutting the branch of the tree on which he is sitting!
If your country flourishes, you will also prosper.
Say, “I am proud of my country. God bless my motherland.”
So be it!
Support your country in every way and participate in activities that create awareness of health and wellbeing.
That means whenever there is a benevolent activity happening, including cleaning, or creating awareness of health, you have to be a part of these activities. Now, a word of caution here. This may not be an appropriate group but doesn’t matter.
You are all my brothers and sisters and therefore, I can share anything with you all. Sometimes, certain countries organize blood donation which is a very stupendous and very beautiful activity, but if you are a very diligent practitioner, an Arhatic Yogi for example, you have to ensure that the blood that you are actually donating goes to a spiritual practitioner.
So, do not randomly donate blood if you are a very committed spiritual practitioner because the energy of the blood that you have is so different and the person who is receiving it, if he is going to vibrate with the grosser energy or a person who is predominantly a non-vegetarian, that will definitely create some kind of imbalance.
This is a very important instruction that you can possibly keep it in mind for your own information. So, all the spiritual practices that you are doing is enhancing the quality of your blood. In the ancient time, we used to have this word called gotra, that is actually the lineage that definitely has an effect.
I would not say how it is nowadays but definitely in the ancient time, they used to follow the gotra’s guidelines and as a matter of fact, marriages were not allowed within the same gotras. Today, they are realizing that it has got a very deeper level of scientific implication.
The kind of blood that you carry makes a very big difference when you are wedded to the same gotra or the lineage. So, that is why the guidance is not to get wedded in the same gotra. You have to go to a blood of a different lineage.
Now, these are all ancient science and when you ponder upon them, it’s really incredible teachings of the great masters that they knew to what extent the blood is affected with the lineage. This, I am talking about thousands and thousands and thousands years of old wisdom.
So, whatever practices that you are doing, whatever feelings that you are radiating, first of all, your blood is absorbing it. Remember, water absorbs energy. That is why you will notice that in any religious activities, water is the medium whether it is Christianity or Hindu tradition.
Wherever you go, you will always find that the rituals involve water. In the Christian tradition for example, baptizing. So, in the Indian tradition you will notice that there is a pond in front of most of the temples. The devotees who are visiting any temple are expected to take a bath in the pond in front of the temple before they enter the temple.
That is as per the ancient guidelines because the water is impregnated with so much of spiritual energy that your aura is purified before you enter the temple. So, it becomes a very sanctified process. These are all greater secrets that you can understand.
So, water plays an extremely important role in your life and given that more than 70% in your body is water and which is actually blood, you have to be so careful about what kind of thoughts that are coming out of you from time to time.
Because there is a cellular level of programming that is happening without your knowledge. So, the cells of the blood do get programmed and if the cells of the blood are programmed positively with spiritual energy, over a period of time, mighty shift in the energy of the soul automatically happens.
These are all very deep secrets that perhaps you may please contemplate whenever time permits but the bottom line is, be very careful about what you are feeling for yourself, what you are feeling for others and what you are feeling for your country. This is so important. It makes a difference. Remember, every drop makes an ocean! Do not think that, ‘How does it matter? I’m only one!’
No! You can actually create a very powerful factor of influence by the amount of spiritual energy that you are wielding. This is exactly what you need to understand. There is something called psychic radiatory field in esoteric parallels. Each one of us carries a certain level of psychic radiatory influence on our surroundings and the people around us, within your family, your home, your society, you are actually creating a very powerful psychic radiatory field.
Imagine a large group like ours joining everyday for the great invocation by the virtue of being connected. Physical separation is not the reality. Energetically, we are so powerfully connected that this collective synergy effect that we generate during the great invocation recitation creates an extraordinary profound purification of your own surroundings, and the neighborhood, and city and to certain extent, the country and the world at large.
These are all very powerful contributions that you need to be aware of. When you are aware of what you are doing, there will be greater level of involvement into whatever that you are doing. Dedication and devotion is very important in the activities that you do but you need to be aware of what exactly you are doing, what kind of contribution that you are making.
You will notice that every time we try to read a passage, there is so much of understanding that flows and it’s not sufficient for you to know things after having read, after having heard something. What gives power to whatever you read and heard is the contemplation, Manan Chintan.
Inner contemplation is very important. It is the contemplation that brings power to the knowledge. So, if you want to make some meaningful transformation in your life, take time for contemplation. Pick up just one point and contemplate on that point.
You will notice that by virtue of contemplating, your aura changes and the energy that you radiate changes. Your thought and your emotions transform. Contemplation is so important.
Further reading, Secrets of Karma, Page 84
