Astrology the Divine Science ( Karma Siddhanta (The Theory of Karma)

OM SAI RAM

This is in continuation of my previous post dated 25.5.2008 ;

Before going into the depth of Astrology, let us first try to understand the " Theory of Karma". The " Theory of Karma" is the greatest wisdom given to this world by the Hindu Philosophy. In the greatest book of spiritutal wisdom " The Gita" it has been well explained by the means of dialouge between Lord Krishna and the Arjuna.

The " Theory of Karma" rests on three pillars, they are :

(a) Reincarnation

(b) Man's inescapable propensity to do Karma ; an action less existence is not

possible

(c) Fruits of action have to be enjoyed/ suffered.

The " Karma" has been broadly divided into three categories namely; " Karma", " Vikarma" and "Akarma" .

Let us first See the KARMA.

(1) KARMA :- It has four elements contained in it.

(a) Sanchita Karma ( Accumulated Karmas of past lives) :- It is the entire collection of the Karmas done by a person in his previous lives as human being. Since, these Karmas have already been done, there is nothing one can do about them now. He has to just suffer or enjoy the results of those Karmas until they are exhausted completely.

(b) The Prarabdha :- It is that part of the Sanchita Karma which has been allotted to a person for his present birth or in the other words we can say that it is his destiny for this life time. It contains both the positive and negative Karmas done by that person in his previous life. As a result of the positive Karmas he gets the enjoyments, achievements, and other happiness in this life. And as a result of the negative Karmas he gets the miseries, unhappiness and failures.

The other part of the Sanchita Karma results in the motivations that enters in the life of a person any time. When a person suddenly does an act, which he least expects that could ever do, is the result of such a motivation. Such motivations are also the results of positive and negative karmas of past life and accordingly make or mar the person.

Thus, we may see very clearly that the Human behaviour is influenced not only by the environment and heredity but also by the Prarabdha and Motivations which are the results of his karmas in past life . This is the reason that two persons though born and brought up in the same enviornment with same heredity, behaves differently, have different motivations, have different perspectives.

(c) Kriyaman Karma :- This is the area in which man has been given the freedom of action, and by his actions he can make or mar his destiny. But again this area has a limit, the man has been allowed to perform only within that limit and this limit has been decided by his previous Karmas. If freewill is not limited then what stops a man from achieving what ever he desires ?

We may understand it by an example:- A cow is tied to a a peg in the ground, if the cow sits idle she will get nothing or very less if she makes effort she can take more grasses but only upto that area for which the rope with which she is tied allows her. The length of this rope is decided by the previous Karmas . Thus a man is free to exercise his freewill but within the orbit of the pre-destined, not outside it.

(d) Aagami Karma :- is the Karmas of future births, if the present birth is not the last one.So it is the area which is flexible and that can be altered by means of the "Kriyaman Karma" .

(2) VIKARMA :- These are the low Karmas performed by a person which definitely gives bad results. The " Vikarma" can be classified into ;

(i) Anti- parental Karmas

(ii) Anti-family Karmas

(iii) Anti-Society Karmas

(iv) Inhuman Karmas.

(3) AKARMA :- It is the highest form of Karma leading to salvation. It is possible when Karma is done with total detachement, morally, with no desire for the fruits of such Karmas. It is a high stage of Yogic development.

Each human birth takes place to carry out its allocated task(s) in accordance with its Karma. This allocation of task is " Fate" or " Destiny". The circumstances and the environment of the house where one is born are pre-determined. The aspects of life that can be seen astrologically, can be divided into following three parts :-

(a) that area where destiny must prevail and man has no choice.

(b) that part where man can exercise his freewill to improve the best of the pre-results or overcome the pre-destined misfoutunes to an extent.

(c) that mixed area where the astrologer can-not see, where strokes of destiny become more mightily dominate over freewill or vice-versa.

BUT over and above all one must remember that every man has to enjoy or suffer the results of his good and bad Karmas, himself.

Good Karma give good results and bad Karma bad results. One's own Karma always yeild results.