Re: Seeing Gods in dreams
Originally Posted by
explorer_of_the_mind
I'm sorry if I offended you by my terse response. Please tell me more about karma in Hinduism. Does a person's karma influence their soul (atman) thereby creating their future lives? Coming from a Buddhist background, it is very diffucult for me to believe in a permanent soul. From my studies in Buddhism, I always thought that a person's actions (karma) influenced their consciousness, or mind stream, which carried on to future lives. If the soul (atman) is permanent, how does a person's actions influence their destiny?
Namaskar Explorer,
Almost echoing Shri Yajvan, I say a few things.
Can a moving object measure its own speed and know its own position? Can a fluctuating consciousness know itself? When you say "I always thought that a person's actions (karma) influenced their consciousness ----", you are referring to that which is objective consciousness of objects. Those are thoughts such as "I am feeling bad today"; "I am aching"; "I am a scholar"; "Oh. No, I am a thief"; etc. etc.
But such objective consciousness (which are concepts really), belong to a subject. And most Hindus agree that the subject is unmoving pure consciousness itself. This is called Atman, which is the permanent soul and which is One and untouched by Karma.
Om
That which is without letters (parts) is the Fourth, beyond apprehension through ordinary means, the cessation of the phenomenal world, the auspicious and the non-dual. Thus Om is certainly the Self. He who knows thus enters the Self by the Self.
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