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The Four Phases of Karma

Before reading my discourse on karma it would be helpful for you to read the article “Karma and Reincarnation” on this site to acquaint you with the process and terminology. Because I like to keep explanations as simple as possible considering our present realm, my discussion will be short and not complicated by extraneous detail.

Most religions that have incorporated concepts of karma have their own versions of how it works and why. While engaged in the Vedic descriptions of reincarnation and Karma, a new translation became clearly apparent to me. The four phases of Vedic karmic philosophy are metaphoric to a plants’ growth. I’ve restructured/reconstructed these phases in a different way, using terminology familiar to students of Devotional Nonduality, while going a bit further within the explanations. All statements have been tested for Truth.

The Four Phases of Karma or The Karmic Cycle

1. 1st Potentiality…Subtle desires, intentions, propensities not yet realized, but forming.
2. 2nd Potentiality…Manifestation of intention, desires created
3. 3rd Potentiality…Creations bearing accountabilities, debts, stimuli (both positive and negative)
4. 4th Potentiality…Fulfillment of responsibilities, rebirth (socio-economic, physicalities, level of consciousness, karmic debt)

Discussion of Potentialities

The 1st Potentiality has to do with all the subtleties we came with at birth (i.e. influences of past lives, inherent qualities, other unknown experiences), as well as our pressing needs as infants and children. We are forming, through unconsciousness programming. This begins manifesting as beliefs, ideas, and needs.

The 2nd Potentiality is our beginning manifestations of our desires and wishes, whether conscious or unconsciousness. (i.e. our behavior, actions, thoughts, new creations within our physical life)

The 3rd Potentiality is about our creations (actualities). 1. Paying debts owed. 2. Being culpable and/or accountable for all actions. 3. Bearing witness to our lives. 4. Responses to our actions (acceptance/rejection). 5. Raising our levels of consciousness. 6. Elimination of karmic debts.

The 4th Potentiality is rebirth. 1. Physicalities (this can range from deformities/physical propensities such as susceptibility to disease, or superior levels of strength) 2. Socio-Economic conditions (planetary location of birth and familial economic/religious/social conditions) 3. Level of consciousness 4.Karmic debt (actions from past life or lives)

The Non Physical Realm

I will begin with The Infinite Field of Consciousness. This has been called “The Akashic Records” by many throughout time. (see Articles on Akashic Records on this site) It can also be called, “The Mind of God” or “The Infinite Field of Knowledge.” Everything that has ever existed (words, actions, events, thoughts, all creations, (both material and non material) are recorded/stored there for eternity. So if you think anything’s ever been forgotten no need to worry. It’s all there…forever. Every grain of sand, every star in the universe, and every hair on your head is accounted for. This is relevant to karma in that all our actions, both verbal and non verbal, are there for us to see throughout all of our lifetimes. We are literally an open book.

As disincarnates, we have free will, which is a given as extensions of Divine creation. There are “guides” to help us plan our next incarnation, based on our integral level of consciousness and past “karmic deeds”. We may choose a lower socio-economic situation or one with built-in hardships, depending on our debt or specific plan. Those within the lower levels of consciousness are grouped and “seemingly” dispersed back randomly, without regard to economic or physical conditions. This is one theory for why the wealthier/privileged may still have the attributes of lower consciousness levels.

This entire plan is a subtle propensity. Due to the fact that we get spiritual amnesia upon arrival in physical form, the “plan” is subject to the changes of the infinite possibilities of future action. The higher our consciousness level at birth, the more likely we are to “follow” our plan as we “remember” why we’re here, in order to replay a life for karmic dissolution. With higher levels of consciousness, there is no further need to incarnate to discreate karma. At this point, our return to form has a direct and immediate purpose.
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