KARMA

Life is God’s Video Game!

Part 1.

March 24, 2015

One question that I get over and over again is “Why did God make this creation with all its difficulties and sorrows?” So, after decades of observing and listening to Soul in myself and others, here is my imperfect answer.

So, let’s start at the beginning!

First of all, there is nothing that is not God, or as Yogi Bhajan used to call It all the time—the Generating, Organizing and Destroying force. “If you can’t see G.O.D. in all, then you can’t see God at all.” Remember that?

As you know, God is the All in All that is beyond time and space, and is the Source of all Creation. That means that when you come down to it, time and space is an illusion! Yep, an illusion, but showing up within these limitations. What we see as this everyday reality is actually a manifestation of the Eternal Present which is Infinity. And what we so easily call God is actually that Infinite Consciousness that is All. Although our limited minds can’t really grasp that, if you go deep into meditation, you can actually get a whiff of that most amazing and expansive experience!

To me, this notion of the Eternal Present explains how we can re-experience incidents in our past lives so vividly and heal them in a past-life regression. Our experiences appear to be malleable and stored as energy—rather like digitized DVDs. Recently I learned that Yogi Bhajan taught that our personal Akashic Records are stored in a kind of energetic bubble under our feet. Amazing, eh?

The point is that we are all actually the same Infinite God in so many various disguises that are operative in this limited time and space illusion that seems so very, very real! So, the best analogy that I can come up with is that we are God’s video game. Yes, that’s the best that I can come up with. So, perhaps God just got bored and needed some drama—that’s us! But just look at it. In a video game, the player creates their “Avatar” and maneuvers him or her through certain challenges of the interactive video game.

So, we appear to be God’s Avatars. God, our Real Self, our creator is the actual player, the very real consciousness that moves us. Each of us is God’s Avatar through this game of lifetimes. Now to create this Avatar here on Earth, we first have the illusion of leaving the Infinite Consciousness with the absolute experience of pure love in order to believe that we are actually separate, that somehow we are disconnected from Who we actually have been. I call this Original Separation, and when folks on the healing table experience this, it is the most painful experience imaginable! As far as I can see, this apparent separation is the base of ALL the pain and suffering that we experience in all of our lifetimes.

This separation from full experience as the Infinite is where our hurts and horrors come from. But it is all a setup.

The “Original Player,” our God Self has set up the game so that we, the Avatar has free will and the ability to learn built in, just as do our most current and sophisticated video games. Now the actual object of this Game of Lifetimes is to play the game so well that we finally get back to that most Original Union where we totally KNOW and Experience that we are actually the Original Player, the God, the Creator itself and not just Its separate projection as an Avatar.

That Union is what it means to finally win the Game of Lifetimes! The excruciating pain of separation is finally over and we re-experience Who we really are, which is the Totality of ALL, the very Real Infinite Consciousness, which is pure and Infinite connection and total coziness. Nothing, no one or anything is beyond you because you experience no limits. You intrinsically KNOW that you are All Unbounded Love, Kindness, Power, Knowledge, Creative ability, purity, humility and so on. You fully see the Truth of this limited arena but are not sucked into it anymore, although you can still operate perfectly in it. I have heard that saints who reach this Awareness have an enormous laugh at this big joke when they see the whole set up for what it is!

This is Union they say is an indescribable state of calm, expansive, coziness and love. And so, that is what we seek on this return trip to our real HOME! That is why as Avatars we get an inkling of this trip Home and we are drawn to live this Yogic path--Yoga meaning “Union”. And this is also why Yogi Bhajan taught that the spiritual path is one of changing our identity from believing that we are limited to realize our True Identity or “Sat Nam” as the Infinite Player, the actual Creator Being—Ek Ong Kaar!

THE RULES & HOW WE PLAY THEM

This Game of Lifetimes is actually very minutely constructed according to a set of amazingly organized rules called our “karmas.” We experience these as the circumstances of our life that we are faced with lifetime after lifetime. So, it is God or our Soul, our Infinite Wisdom, our True Self that initiates that whole string of challenges through lifetimes for us, the Avatar to play.

Then to create the specific course of our personal Game within these “rules” over lifetimes, our essential Self, Soul sets it up so that first we are the perpetrator of some nastiness, then we are the victim of this same kind of difficulty, which finally drives us to the point that we are absolutely ready to give up that whole thread of repeating cause and effect.

As we play our karmas—both the ones that we like and the ones that we don’t, our free-will responses and actions either resolve or neutralize the energetically-based “virtual reality” of each trial or our response complicates it even more. So, our play—whatever it is sets up our next course of challenges. This is how we as Avatars actually create the challenges of our own lives.

Each challenge, no matter how difficult or easy is actually an opportunity for advancement to return to Union if played well. If we avoid these opportunities either consciously or unconsciously, we just remain a victim and are faced with the same test in different situations until we finally remedy or heal our habitual reactions. The choice is ours—it is the choice of the Avatar’s free will to heal or not.

So that turning-point in changing our karmic patterns is called “transformation” or healing. It is where we actually shatter the energetic holding patterns of each of those difficult experiences. When triggered, they keep us feeling like the forlorn and forgotten victim, or the perpetual perp of anger, abuse, etc. When these habitual energetic mechanisms of “virtual reality” are neutralized or shattered, what remains are the freed-up tiny “bits” of all this information from having been both the perp and the victim. But they are re-arranged by Soul into new accessible patterns that support our progress and happiness, and which is not dependent on circumstances. Rather it taps into the very real experience of Soul’s clarity and Love.

Now, this new, integrated information bank of reorganized bits of all these experiences is called “wisdom” from which we can draw at will. We are no longer lost in those similar painful situations, but rather a deep knowing guides us to the best outcome, which of course is Union, love, peace, calm and personal power. And we may find that we have developed new skills and abilities such as being able to help, lead or heal others faced with those same challenges. A healed Avatar can actually help other Avatars through this amazing Game of Lifetimes in that same category that they have healed from! After all, we all have the same Source, which is the Real Player, and Who is apparently “behind the scenes” operating all these Avatars.

HOW TO WIN EACH CHALLENGE IN YOUR PERSONAL VIDEO GAME!

Part 2.

March 31, 2015

So, as you have seen, it is up to us, the Avatar to change our limited time and space consciousness that is hemmed in by believing what our conditioning and senses tell us! We do that by giving up and neutralizing the energetic mechanisms of those old belief and emotional repeating patterns. And that is the “battle” to create these freeing transformations. That is how we win our next level of access to Soul and collect the Wisdom and Abilities that I call the Gems and the Jewels that are formed in this whole process. Remember that Yogi Bhajan said that a diamond is a lump of coal that has been under extreme pressure and heat for a very long time. This is that process! So, you see there is real purpose in this whole karmic cycle of going Home.

Here at the steps to Win each challenge!

1. Remember “Let Go and Let God”? This is no platitude! This is the Truth! You have heard of Surrender. This is it. Most humbly and deeply give the whole conflict to God, or Soul or the Original Game Player Who is the real expert. Consciously, meditatively let that repeating stuck energy go back to God for recycling. That is how you win, by truly giving up your harness of enslavement to those painful and limiting habits of your consciousness’ beliefs and emotions. This is not irresponsible, but rather the MOST responsible thing you could ever do! And it takes real humility to do it. No hanging onto self-righteousness, blaming, hurt, personal glory, etc.

2. Forgive your perpetrators, your experiences of fear and pain, as well as yourself even at your earliest ages for believing those untruths imposed from your cultural conditioning or the pain that apparently was inflicted at such a young age. What else was a little child going to believe? That was part of the karmic set up.

Do this deep forgiving from your deep meditative level—not from your mind, which does not work for this because your mind remains superficial and not really in touch with this energetic Trance at this very deep creative level. And when we forgive, we are not saying that what happened was OK, but we are leaving any “justice” up to the perpetrator’s own karmic path, unless of course we need to call the police, etc. to stop their continuing to spread their hurt and pain to others, such as with physical or sexual abuse. This is how we, Soul’s Avatar “wins” or heals through these situations or karmic “opportunities”.

And most importantly forgive yourself for your part in all those most difficult experiences from all sides. That is from being the perp so far back in your history of lifetimes to the present, and also forgive yourself from believing that you are the victim of these events, even if you were a tiny child when they happened. As you do this incredible forgiving, you are actually dissolving the holding patterns of those old hurts so that you don’ have to experience them again!

Then realize that this whole string of karmic events is actually built so that we have the opportunity for this particular transformation, freedom and growth! Yikes! Imagine the implications of this process. Celebrate it!

3. Use every help that you can get to support you and to propel you to win every challenge on this amazing Hero’s Journey. These powerful helps are such things as Kundalini Yoga, Mantra, Meditation, Banis, disciplined thinking and awareness, profound teachings, etc. that actually support us to reformulate our energies, our consciousness, our Self-love and our habits to break that thread or spell of karmic progression.

4. I find that the very biggest help is actually cozying up to my Soul, my True God Self to coach me on how to play each challenge that is now in my face! This is such a great way to actually get the very best instructions and very real support from the Real Player behind the whole Game. This is the One Who sees all the chess moves from every direction and is actually rooting for me to come to final Union where I truly know and experiencing Who I am. And of course, every “win” brings me closer to my goal of moving out of this separation to experience the powerful Love that Soul can pour through me.

You may think that it is a bit like cheating to get the best “moves” from the Creator of the Game, but there is no better Source! And since I am actually looking for true Union with the Creator of this Game, then building and deepening this very real relationship with Soul over time, especially in tough times as well as easy ones is really important to the process, wouldn’t you say?

5. Don’t be afraid or too insecure to change! Remember, you are consciously changing your identity. So, as you change, you won’t actually know who you will become. So, don’t let moving into the Unknown scare you. Just Trust that Soul has it all covered in this great adventure, and you will get to know the new aspects of you—the game Avatar shortly.

6. When we heal or transform our reactions with gratitude for the opportunities, we neutralize that Virtual Reality configuration so that we can open more clearly to what we call the Light. It is like washing our (the Avatar’s) windows to get a better glimpse and experience of Who is really playing this game of Life through us—our God Self, which paradoxically is the Real Us! That is when we can connect to our True Infinite Reality that is everything and everyone, and thereby experience the calm, the peace, the awareness, the love from our Source, the True Player.

Yogi Bhajan says, "My life is my life, which is given to me as a gift and I must process myself. Nothing should bother me."

This “nothing should bother me” comes from the process of continual transformation or “winning” at this Video Game of LIFE! That is when the Avatar totally realizes that it is the actual Player and Creator of this whole Game and plays it for everything that it is worth—and that is Infinity!

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KARMA--The Reader's Digest Explanation

July 20, 2010

Re-published April 30, 2013

So many people ask me, “So why do I have to go through all this pain and suffering? Is God or Soul just playing some kind of cruel joke on me?”

So, I made a study of this, asking Soul what the heck is going on here! These are the answers that I was given. And they bear out every time I do a Soul-level healing with folks.

THE READER’S DIGEST EXPLANATION OF KARMA

As you know, simply put the Law of Karma says that whatever you do will come back to you. So, if we do something to or for someone, we will be the recipients that exact same situation at a future time.

Here is a description that the saint, Bhai Sahib Randir Singh gave of his karma: In a previous lifetime, as a boy he came across a man who was extremely emaciated, his body was rigid, and he appeared to be unconscious. Randir Singh desperately wanted to revive this fellow, so in his fervor he broke the fellow’s tooth, put a tube down his throat and poured nourishment into his body.

In fact, it turned out that the comatose fellow was actually using his yogic powers to get to a state in which he would be able to steal Randhir Singh’s father’s wealth. Needless to say, that guy was less than appreciative when he was revived!

In this consequent lifetime, that thief with the yogic powers came back as the most despicable jailer of Bhai Randhir Singh who was an extremely righteous Sikh and political prisoner in the early resistance against corrupt British rule over India. So, in this life, because Randhir Singh would not eat anything that did not conform to his dietary laws, the jailer actually had Randhir Singh’s tooth broken so that his men could insert a tube down Randhir Singh’s throat and pour meat broth into his stomach.*

Apparently there are many threads of karma, in addition to the obvious one explained here that are woven into this incident, which gives it extremely unique complexities. But that is how the “fabric of life” is created.

“NO GOOD, NO BAD. THINKING MAKES IT SO!” Yogi Bhajan

Now, can you believe that there is no such thing as “good karma” or “bad karma”? That is just the mind, or our “everyday self”—which is what I call our ego, the habits of our shortsighted mind, our subconscious, the dictates of our culture, and so on, making a judgment on the situations that arise in our lives. We base our judgments on whether we like the situations that appear or we hate them.

Needless to say, this matching up and interweaving of karmas in a life time is such an extremely complex situation! In fact, it is our own beloved Souls, our God Selves who pull together which karmas we will experience! Oh, yes! Such things as where we will be born, who our parents are, what things “happen” to us, etc.

To be very simple about it all, it seems that before we come into a life, Soul sort of spreads all of our karmas out before It like playing cards—no matter whether we would call those karmas good, bad or indifferent. Then it pulls specific ones from that pile, sort of like consciously choosing your card hand before the game starts, and then creates a time order to them. Then our Soul comes into our body and everyday self to actually play that card hand, which is all the karmic situations It has chosen for that lifetime!

The question is, does our everyday self take charge to play that hand in such a way that it just creates more karmas for us? Or do we let Soul whisper all the right moves to everyday self to play that hand with such incredible grace and dexterity that we move ourselves closer and closer to actual Conscious Union with our own Soul, our God Self? That is the process of the spiritual path.

So what about the crumminess in our lives? How do those experiences fit into this whole operation?

Well, it appears that at one time—in some lifetime, we were the “perp,” or the giver of crumminess. Then in that same life or in consequent ones we become the receiver of that same, exact crumminess. This is usually called being the “victim.” And this is where we often get stuck believing that some God outside of us is being vengeful just for us. “Why me?” we yell!

But here’s the real deal. We, as our Soul set up our whole “game” of this particular string of karma so that we can get to know this situation inside out—both from the attitude of the perp to the crushing of the victim. We need to “grok” (get) it in every detail. It’s as though we store all of those dark experiences and awareness as lumps of coal in a closed shadowy room. It hurts, we feel stuck and imprisoned.

Now, here’s the real key! When we actually heal those old crumminesses, when we forgive, when we give up and let go of all those energetic tangles that bind us like poisonous, electric jelly fish tentacles—that changes all those very dark and confusing polarities! The “windows” of that dark storeroom fling open to the sunlight, we are cleared and freed, we can see forever! And the polarity of those dark experiences changes to Light so that now each of those horrid pieces of coal become as crystals and gems that can actually transmit powerful energy and awareness from Soul rather than block it.

When that happens, we retain all the knowledge that we gained about that situation from every viewpoint. We understand it inside out. Those transformed difficulties or lumps of coal become gems of wisdom and ability to serve and to heal in that specific arena that we have healed from. It is a most magnificent transformation!

So, if your Soul is looking to establish really big Light and healing ability in you, then It sets you out on a really BIG path of perp and victim so that you can transform and heal into that huge Light in that area! Once you have healed, there is no more animosity, no more blaming, no more “Why me?”

You get what an extraordinary gift You have given yourself! And you are grateful for it with every fiber of your being!

Observe that process in yourself a while, talk to your own Soul and see what you get. Karma is a magnificent process, so we might as well get on with it in the quickest way possible, don’t you think?

Of course, our fabulous tools for healing are sadhana (daily spiritual practice), all of our yogic and dharmic practices, as well as energy work, listening directly to our own Soul, and conscious re-training of our mind to recognize what is REALLY happening! This is this grand healing process that step by step brings us to our own real Union with our God Self!

So, become your own Karma Detective and see what you find. It could be mind-blowing as well as gratitude-producing! At least you will love the results, even though the process may appear daunting! Guaranteed!

* ”The Autobiography of Bhai Sahib Randhir Singh,” Translated by Trilochan Singh, Published by S. Balbir Singh, Secretary, Bhai Sahib Randhir Singh Trust, 23-G, Saraha Nagar, Ludhiana (Punjab), India. Fourth edition: 2000.

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