Believing in Karma makes you Weak
I come from a Jain family. Amongst Jains and Christians, there is a very strong concept of sin. Amongst Jains, Buddhists and Hindus, there is a very strong concept of Karma. Essentially, I grew up in surroundings that had a very strong overtone of the concept of Karma and sin (negative karma) and merit (positive karma).
Then I came across my Guru (Guruji Rishi Prabhakar) who never talked about karma but only talked about samadhi and moksha. I once asked him: Guruji, why don’t you ever talk in terms of Paap and Punya which many spiritual masters talk? He replied in a light vein that that doesn’t mean he is ignorant about the concepts. My query didn’t get answered and my quest continued. Gradually life gave me my answers.
Work with Elements to Work with your Weaknesses
Each of us somewhere knows that we become like the person we look up to. If that’s the case, I would rather look up only to somebody who has mastered life. Yet better, look up to somebody who has mastered death. Mastering death cannot come without mastering life. Our immortal yogis (besides some Taoist sages) are the best exemplars for having mastered death.
The Secret of the Yogis
Kumbha Mela witnesses thousands of yogis and sadhus who come down from the deep Himalayas to participate in the world every few years.
I too was surprised when I got to know that many of them have been hanging out for a few hundred years. It has been a matter of deep research interest for me as to what helps them stay hale and hearty and much much more energetic than us for hundreds of years.