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VIREH IN MYSTICISM
Vireh is blessed sadness of longing in love.It is not denial of love,neither a frustration in love.It is the silent pull of heart to meet its beloved.One must fall in love,irresepective of response from the beloved,to experience this state of Vireh.Emotional love has its ups and downs.Vireh is a state of unquailfied and undiminished submission in love.

In mysticism it is the helplessness of the disciple to effectively communicate the intensity of feelings of his physical seperation from the Master.Spiritually the Master and the devotee never suffer seperation. Both are in each other all the time.They are neither apart,nor do they meet. It is Oneness all the time.The paradox of divine love is that more you love the less you feel you are loving.That too creates amiss and sadness....Vireh.It is a state beyond the realm of love.

The mood in Vireh is of calm desperation,oblivion of time and space,self absorbtion,totality of material and mental detachment.There could be tears or smile,both convey the excitement of expectation of a glimpse of the Master.

It is that pinnacle of spirituality where perhaps both Master and the Lord feel envious of the devotee.But such a feeling is a gift of the Master to the disciple and he humbly acknowledges with gratitude this sense of surrender to Him.

Can you imagine a cocktail of joys and sorrows, of pain and pleasure,of unity and duality,of deep devotion and void,of love and remorse,of inner bliss and nothingness.This is the game in which you lose all to win, and if you win you are no more.A perpetual loser can only experience Vireh.Verily verily verbal description of Vireh defies defination.

REALITY,TRUTH,GOD, WORLD
There is no reality except what you create for yourself. There is no truth except that you experience for yourself. There is no world that that you recognise for yourself. There is no God except the one you realise yourself. You are the seer and the seen,the experience and the experiencer,You and I are one,you and yours are one,he,his,him and they are in oneness ,but differentiated in domain of duality

BEYOND KARMA
Life and karma are inseperable and run concurrently. Karma determines life,fate and destiny. Life is an enactment of karmic process of the present life and also of the subsequent incarantions. Karma literally means "deed" or "act" and more broadly defines the universal principle of cause and effect or action and reaction.The principle of Karmic law is that “action and reaction” must be balanced.An eye for an eye. A tooth for a tooth.Hurt, and you too will be hurt. Kill, and be ready for a kill. Be good and receive goodness .Be kind and receive kindness. Serve others and be served. You cannot build your heaven on the hell of others. It is the natural law of Mind which governs all life.

But any goodness does not erase or wipe off bad deeds.In the code of Karmic accountability, credits do not overwrite debits. A debit entry will be a permanent debit and until you suffer the consequences of that debit, it never gets obliterated. The precise timing of reward or punishment for the settlement of karmic account is decided by cosmic will. Your will and action may not be necessary for squaring off the Karmic account. It could be the other way- that someone else acts without your knowledge and consent, the results and consequences of which may impact you so as to balance the account.

Who decreed this Law of Karma? ---No individual is responsible for this.This is a Cosmic law. Mystic,sages and all holy books have spoken in length about it. Mystic repeat what they experience and the holy books are a testimony of their experience. Newton scientifically proved the laws of “action and reaction” and “gravity”. But their existence is as old as the creation itself. Ignorance of law of “gravity” or “equal and opposite action and reaction” does not imply absence of these principles. Apples have been falling on the ground due to gravitational pull, irrespective of timing of assertions of Newton. Karmic phenomenon has always existed since the primal day of this creation---the mystics and the saints merely endorse this fact for our benefit. Karma is the seed which a person in flesh sows in this world. The seed is the deed. That seed must sprout sooner or later as a reaction to the seeding.The same individual then reaps the fruit, which he sowed in the past. The type of fruit cannot be changed by any external or internal process. Chillies will produce chillies and not mangoes.Wheat will yield wheat and not rice. It is just a brief description of “as shall you sow, so shall you reap”. The operation of karmic law is absolute and total. It recoils back on the individual with full force.

Dr. Julian Johnson in his treatise on “The Path Of The Masters” explains--- “It is a well-known law of physics that action and reaction are equal, but opposite in directions. This is the law that brings back upon the doer, in spite of himself, the legitimate results of his conduct. He must gather the fruit of his own actions. That reaction he cannot possibly escape. Hence, every action performed has its double karma based upon this law of action and reaction---it affects the recipient and it returns upon the doer. The doer is always a recipient of the same act. So action and reaction are the dual forms of karma.”

What was the necessity of this type of Divine or Cosmic order? This query cannot be answered in simplistic form .There are many intricate riddles in this creation, which defy replies. We know not why earth is brown and sky is blue; why there is sun and moon;why there are clouds and seas; why days and nights are cyclic in nature; why so may seasons and climates and plants and animals of so many hues colours and shape; why minerals and metals are embedded in deep earth.Suffice it to say that many questions, which are in the Divine domain cannot be expressed in terms of logic and language. Mystics tell us that it is not because Divine is limited, but because human is limited and he has to raise his consciousness to a level where he can infer this cosmic mystery.

Karmic concepts has been part of all religious and spiritual streams.Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism have very sternly descripted karmic retribution in their teachings.Christianity, Judaism, Islam and Sikhism too believe in “as shall you sow, so shall you reap” but the criticality of this cardinal principle has been diluted in their preachings specially when considered in terms of compassion and mercy to all the living entities of this creation.

Man is considered to be at the top of all the species of the creation. As human beings, we are endowed with sense of discrimination and conditioned free will. We are aware that life is only fleeting and transitory, and that death is inevitable. We are also aware of an afterlife. This knowledge of death and an afterlife is meant to give us a sense of purpose, or the inclination to reflect upon our lives. Animals act mainly on instinct and fulfill their immediate desires. They merely reap the fruit of their actions committed in previous human lives. And no new karma is created, while in lower life forms. We are capable of looking beyond our current situation. We are also aware that our actions today may have consequences later in life and beyond our Earthly departure. The righteousness of our actions is of paramount importance to attain higher degree of consciousness, not only to experience the Divnity and Divine Law, but also to go beyond the cycle of birth and death---and to become karmalessso that perpetual redemption is attained.

The path of righeousness is precursor to the path of mysicism.No person can travel the path of mysticism so long his heart is not full of compassion for others. He (the compassionate one) can catch the glimpse of common thread of universal life in all beings. You cannot be a killer and yet kind.An unkind heart cannot feel the fragrance of the Lord, Who is the source of life of all entities.

It is imperative for those who cherish divine realisation as the prime objective of life to absolutely abstinate from intake of food of flesh(meat,fish,eggs or any sort of animal food), and also to prohibit themselves of all type of intoxicants (including alcoholic liquors of all kind, tobacco and psychedelic drugs). The Book Of Mirdad(chapter 24)---“Is it Lawful to Kill” warns and cautions: “To feed on Death is to become food for Death. To live by others' pain is to become a prey for pain. So has decreed the Omniwill. Know that and choose your course. And the yearners know that every flesh they tear they must inevitably repair, soon or late, with their own flesh; and every bone they crush they must rebuild with their own bone; and every drop of blood they spill they must replenish with their own blood. For that is the law of flesh. And the yearners would(like to) be free of bondage to this law. Therefore do they reduce their bodily wants to the lowest minimum, reducing thereby their debt to the flesh which is, in truth, a debt to Pain and Death.”

Rishi-Munis(adepts/sincere seekers, pursuing God realisation through penances, austerities,etc. as per Hindu and Vedic philosophy),saints and other noble souls vehemently oppose meat eating. In their opinion this drives the mind towards mental aggression and downward tendencies. Firstly, say the saints, our thought process gets polluted by animal killing and ingress of meat; secondly sub-human sensibilities are generated due to acts of violence; over-excitement vitiates our immediate environment, thereby, adversely affecting our personal relationships. The wars and the battles are also projection of this sense of violence; leading to progressive regression of human beings to demonic state of mind. This cycle of horror proceeds interminably as resultant reactions of thoughts and violence once triggered continue unabated till we ourselves get strangulated. The waves of violence hit us back with full ferocity in future or in this very life or in any of the next births. Killing of any kind is therefore is prohibited for the simple reason of reaction of retribution in the form of rebirth and rekilling.

Thought and karma are very intimately linked. First a thought drops in mind,it is analysed by the mind and then it is either abondoned or acted or stored for future action. The generation of thought appears to be a random phenomenon, but it is the seed of fated destiny that emerges from reservoir of universal mind which gives the direction of action to the life of individuals. This conversion of thought in to action or inaction is that drives the wheels of this world. The nature and quality of thought has direct bearing to instincts and desires of past lives. They may relate to the cravings, ambitions, wants and attachments of previous lives. The present thought process may be good or bad depending on the karmas of earlier births. The good ones are those who take to towards rememberence of the Lord and bad ones are those who drag you away from the Lord. Good thoughts or karmas, from spiritual point of view, take your consciousness inward and upward. Negative thoughts or karmas,similarly, have the tendency to pull the mind downward and outward. This is the basic distinction that has to be kept in mind for determining what is good or bad. But if we apply worldly standards of material wealth, riches, poitical power, position, name and fame,health,family etc. for formating the distinction between good and bad, then it may be highly subjective. The greatest karmic misery that an individual suffers is his seperation from the Lord. If a person remains ignorant or oblivious of this great loss, he can never be happy or at peace in true sense. Any attempt that a person seriously makes to seek the Lord is the only good thought or good karma that is acknowledged towards his quest for peace and happiness. All other actions are merely entanglements in this mire of grand ocean of illusion.

“A man is known by the company he keeps” if slightly modified as “ A mind is known by the company it keeps” would explain a lot. The motive of mind in karmic action is the critical part of the karma and not the action itself. (To explain this--- it will be sufficient for a person to be sincerely heplful to others in all humility, even if his targetted help does not materially or directly benefit the beneficiaries.) Such noble tendencies can be acquired by keeping mind calm, compassionate, humble, truthful, loving and living in the company of those who inspire such thoughts. Therfore, intake of appropriate satvik food becomes an important element of controlling the thought process. Mind nourished by satvik food would naturally attract goodness that is inherent for nobility of thoughts. When mind is in state of total submission and equanimity it naturally seeks the company of those who may inspire it for freedom from the bondage of material life imprisoned in the body of flesh and blood. It is the conviction of mind that is of paramount importance for MOKSHA, as soul being a drop of Divine is always eager to merge back with its Origin.

For the attainment of this supreme objective, the freedom from karmic bondage---the release from the “prison” of all body and mind forms is fundamental. No words can bear description to the agony of unliberated souls as they travel, life after life, through the round of eighty four. Thousnds of them in animal bodies are butchered every day. They keep crying in anguish but none pays heed to their shrieks. These goats and sheep then reincarnate themselves and become the potential causative factor for killing of the today’s butchers, vendors, servers and consumers of flesh. The cycle of misery of life thus continues adinfinitum for the unliberated souls.

What is to be inferred from “flesh”? Simply speaking, it is the bondage to (the prison house of) body. Man’s core and crux is flesh, his conception is by flesh, formed and framed in flesh itself. Till the end of his life, all his “give and take” is with bodies of flesh. How can he cut himself off from the world of flesh? That is feasible only, if he is under no compulsion to reincarnate himself in any body form in future. Then his relationship with flesh ceases. To be free from any form of flesh refers to that state of existence, which is beyond the cycle of transmigration.

The flesh or the body keeps the mind and soul wrapped under its covering. Mystically the mind keeps the soul in its captivity. It is the mind which is the carrier of the impressions (or the sanskaras) of all karmas. Although released at death from the ‘jail’ of body, the soul still remains under the clutches of mind---still subject to birth and deathuntil it gains release from all aspects of mind.

Hindu scriptures divide karmic activity into three kinds:Sinchit(accumulated/reserve), Pralabdh (fruit/fate actions-bearing in the lifetime) and Kriyaman ( new actions/deeds or act performed in this lifetime) karma. All kriyaman karmas become sinchit karma upon completion. From this stock of sinchit karma, a handful is taken out to serve one lifetime and this handful of actions which has begun to bear fruit and which will be exhausted only on their fruit being enjoyed and not otherwise, is known as pralabdh karma. In this way, so long as the stock of sinchit karma lasts, a part of it continues to be taken out as prarabdha karma for being enjoyed in one lifetime, leading to the cycle of birth and death. A soul cannot attain moksha or salavtion until the accumulated sinchit karmas are completely exhausted.

The objective of ths soul is then to cherish state of Karmalessness. This can only be done through an agency which itself has attained that state. A true Saint –a true Masteris karmaless and if He chooses to afford protection to the soul lost in this cosmic creation, freedom from Karma can be achieved by the mind .Soul gets the release from the captivity of mind and can then merge in its origin. The logical explaination of this process is given below

Since Saints/Masters themselves are karmaless, their actions are not binding on them, for their spirits work from a spiritual centre above the three spheres of mind and forms The Saints show us the way out. They say: let new actions(Kriyaman) be performed in the name of the Master, the individual working in the capacity of an agent only. The new Actions(kriyaman), done in this spirit, will not be binding. The fate actions (pralabdh) will have been undergone by the time the life comes to an end; the reserve actions( Sinchit) Saints partly take upon themselves and partly are undergone by the devotee, as the Saints think proper.

Saints put the individual spirit in touch with the divine Current, and as the spirit catches it and rises up, it throws off the influences of mind and matter, and gets stronger and stronger. The more the individual works on these lines, the easier the path for him. Otherwise, the course becomes lengthy; but the Saints are pledged to see him through, after they have initiated a soul. The practice of divine current cuts the root of karma.The Current acts like a magnet on the spirit. It attracts the spirit to itself, and if the spirit were not covered by the rust of mind and matter, it would go up like a shot. The rust of attachments and impressions is removed by repetition (simran). The repetition of thoughts of the journey within replaces our everyday thoughts. Then the mind, instead of wandering outside, begins to take rest and peace within; and when it goes in, the spirit also goes with it; and when the spirit is in,the Current in its turn pulls it up. Once the region of the mind has been crossed (this will only be when all karmic accounts are settled), the soul never goes back into transmigration.



REFERENCES 1.THE THEORY OF CREATION-- JIM SCHICATANO 2.VEGETARIANISM-- WIKIPEDIA.

3.THE BOOK OF MIRDAD.

4.THE PATH OF THE MASTERS—DR.JULIAN JOHNSON

5. THE SOUL IN EXILE -VOL.6--- JOHN DAVIDSON