Karma quotes by Sadhguru
For every action you perform there is a consequence. Most people are not willing to face the consequences when they come; Anybody who is not willing to joyfully accept the consequences that come to them for whatever actions they perform is just a fool
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Your life & the experience of your life is entirely your making, if this one thing doesn't sink into you absolutely (you won't change), the moment you see it, you have the ability to changeChange Life Experience Transformation
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It doesn't matter who did what, what is happening within you, your experience of your life is entirely your making- this is your Karma
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Karma doesn't mean something that drops upon you from somewhere, Karma means your action, it's your making, it's your doing.
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It doesn't matter what kind of karma you gathered in the past - this moment's karma is always in your hands
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If I told you this is God’s will that you are doing well, then you have no choice. If I tell somebody who is not doing well 'This is God’s will', he has simply no choice, isn't it? That's the way he has to be. When I say 'It's your making', that means he can make it something else if he wishes
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you who is not even like a worm in this cosmos, you are like a speck of dust, to you so much freedom has been given that you can shape your life the way you want it. If you want you can become god-like. If you want you can become just a lump of earth. Whatever you choose, it's left to you. Is it not wonderful? Absolutely wonderful, So it’s your karma.
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Who you are is your making. Once you understand this, at least you must make yourself to your own likingLife Responsibility Understanding
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No matter what life throws at you – what you make out of it is up to youLife Short One liners Responsibility
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In enshrining your bondages and limitations as values, you become available to Karmic slavery
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Karma is the accumulated impressions, it is the software you wrote for yourself unconsciously
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Nothing is accidental here. The whole physical existence is happening between cause and consequence
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Karma is your survival and your bondage. And if you handle it right, it can also be your liberation
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Karma means a certain accumulated mass of information which has now formed its own tendencies
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If you perform every activity as an offering, your karmic bondage will start to unravel
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Whether you are suffering or enjoying people around you, it is your karma
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Depending upon your longings, depending upon your tendencies, nature gives you an appropriate body.
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The karma is not made in physical action; it is made only by volition
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Whatever you need will just happen if you keep your energies exuberant and focused.
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To be truthful to yourself is not an easy thing because there is lifetimes of habit of simply bullshitting yourself.
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We always said whatever you are is your making. When I say karma, it means I am my making. It's the most dynamic way to exist. But, we made it too ugly, into a fatalistic attitude
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If you use any kind of situation or action towards your liberation, then you are in yoga. Otherwise you are only entangling yourself in karma
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Karma is not in what you have done or in what you have not done. It is your volition, the way you live, the way you are within yourself.
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Most people cannot meditate unless they exhaust the karma of activity within themselves. The prarabdha karma is like a coiled-up spring, it has to find its release. If you don't give it constructive work, it will find release in all kinds of perversions.
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When we said it’s your karma, we are saying it is one hundred percent your making, everything that you are and that means you have to create your own life. this has kept people free of resentment and anger and hatred. That’s why India is incapable of a revolution
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Karma: we are not talking about any theory. We are referring to a certain reality. Karma means memory - action and memory. Past action exists only in the form of memory.
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you look at yourself, if you don't like the way you are, do the right karma. You've not done the right thing. That's all
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Joy is also your karma; misery is also you karma. Isn't it wonderful, your life is your business & nobody’s business? You can make whatever you want out of it. There cannot be more compassion for someone as small as you. In this creation, You are a tiny speck, to you this much freedom has been given, that you can shape your life the way you want it
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What happens around you is not always the way you want. Whatever happens within you is absolutely your making. This is called Karma. If you do not take charge of this then you become an accidental life.
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You are not only bound to the people you like or love. Your bondage to those you dislike or hate is much deeper
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I want to see you focused on something, whatever it is. Because if a human being stays focused, the universe will yield
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In this culture we taught you right from ancient times, your life is your karma. This means, your life is your making. What comes our way is not in our hands but what we make out of it is one-hundred percent in our hands.
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No matter who you are, how the hell you were born, who your parents were, what kind of karma you have - if you are willing, you can build yourself upInspirational Responsibility Willingness
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Your life and the experience of your life is entirely your making.Life Short Experience Responsibility
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Old layers of karma can stick to you only if you keep adding new layers of karmic glue.
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Karma functions through certain tendencies. But with some awareness and focus, you can push it in a different direction.
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Karma is like old recordings that keep replaying. Yoga means to make life not just a replay but a profound possibility and experienceLife Experience Yoga Possibility
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Mukti means we want to wear off the karmic information that we have gathered, which is trapping life in it
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If you are crawling through your work, that is karma. If you are dancing through your work, that is karma yoga.
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Your life and how you experience it is entirely your making. Only if this absolutely sinks in, will you make the necessary changesChange Life Experience Responsibility
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The accumulation of karma is not in the activity you perform. It is in the volition or the intention of your action.
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Your karma is not in what is happening to you; your karma is in the way you are responding to it.
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Today's generation is hardly using the word karma. Once this disappears resentment & anger will grow
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Your thought process connects you with karma. If you create a distance between you and your thoughts , you will be beyond karma
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If you offer goodwill to everyone, it will come back to you in many ways. But do not worry whether it comes back to you or not
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Whether it is suffering or joy, going through experiences in life is not so much of a karma. Depriving yourself of any experience is the big karma
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If you just live totally, you will dissolve lots of karma. Living totally means that you experience anything that comes fully and intensely.
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Karma means action. From the day we were born whatever action we did has led us to become the kind of person we are now.
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If understanding is karma, not understanding is also karma. If we understand something, there is a benefit, and if we do not understand something, there is suffering. Both are karma.
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Prarabdha is the allotted karma and it is like a coiled spring, it wants to find expression; it will not spare anybody. So the best thing is to exhaust the prarabdha as quickly as possible with immense activity, so that if you sit, there is nothing compulsive in you, if you sit here you just sit here, that’s all.
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We will flourish in the future, only if we understand this, that our life is entirely our making, that is what Karma means
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When I say karma, I want you to understand - it’s my making. Whatever I am in my life is my making. It’s a most dynamic way to exist. Slowly this most dynamic way to exist has been kind of corrupted to become a fatalistic existence
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No one can achieve well-being through someone else's suffering. Even if there is a temporary benefit, you will pay for it
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Karma means both action and memory. There is no memory without action and no action without memory
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Your emotional identification has to expand. Without that, your karma sits tight on you.
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Karma is not in your action – it is in your volition. It is not the content of your life but the context that creates karma
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A habit is a small manifestation of the karmic pattern. You take in a certain input and make a pattern out of it.
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If you generate sufficient energy, you can also handle the tendencies caused by the old information
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Of all kinds of karma, using occult forces for one's own benefit or to the harm of others has the worst consequences for oneself
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If you run away and sit on the mountain, you will not become free from karma. It has to be worked out.
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Intention is a powerful tool for creating karma. It is the volition which causes karma, not the action.
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The very way you think, feel and understand life is just the way you have assimilated inputs. We call this karma
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If you transcend the mind, you transcend the karmic bondage also, completely. You don't really have to work it out.
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Karma is the bondage. At the same time, only because of the karmic stuff you can hold on to the body
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The karmic limitations can be broken by creating a powerful visualization of what you want to be
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Doing something that does not mean anything to you with total involvement is what breaks the karmic structure
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Once your thought and emotion become a conscious process, you are free from the karmic process in many ways.
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What one consider to be 'myself' is just an accumulation of habits, predispositions & tendencies acquired over time without being conscious of the process. In other words, Karma is like old software that one has written for oneself, unconsciously
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Karma is the memory of life. You're able to build this body the way it is built only because there is memory of life
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What gender or form you take is determined by the type of longing that you create
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The hell in you is not because of Karma. The hell in you is because you have empowered your unconsciousness.
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Karmic structures can be shitty, flowery, or fruity - but the possibility of Realization is not determined by this
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We refer to the Karmic tendencies as Vasana, what Vasana literally means is 'smell', so what kind of garbage you have in your head, that is the kind of smell, accordingly, things happen to you, that's the kind of life you attract to yourself, that is the direction in which you go
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In India people have always been taught that 'Life is your making' because of that people understood that these things are not raining upon you from somewhere, here we knew it is our karma and we must do something to change it
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This is the only culture, which is very very clear that the way you are is not God’s doing. The way you are is your doing. Creation is not your doing, but the way you are, the way you’re experiencing life, what you are attracting, what you’re getting into is one hundred percent your doing. It is your karma.
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Every moment of your life, you perform action – physically, mentally, emotionally, and energy-wise. Each action creates a certain memory. That is karma
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The very root of karmic imprint is in the elements. That is the most fundamental space
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Every action has a consequence. This is not a moralistic reality; it is a certain existential process.
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Karma is not your enemy. Your unawareness of what is what, is your enemy. Karma is the memory of life
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Whatever you know about yourself and your life is nothing but karmic substance, not your being
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What we are going to do with our lives today and tomorrow is more important for us, not the old karma. We cannot change what has already happened.
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Karma is not (necessarily) about what you are doing. It is just the way you are holding it in your mind... the way you feel about it.
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If you dismantle your karmic structure completely, you merge with existence. This is what mukti or ultimate liberation means - to become free from the very process of life, birth, and death
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Right up to the elemental level, everything is memory. This is karma and this goes right back. Only the pure element is free from memory.
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Only if you clean your energy system of karmic imprint, can you change your destiny. This is why yogic kriyas are important
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As a family, as a community, as a nation, as humanity, we share karmic memory among ourselves
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Since prana has the karmic memory of the individual imprinted on it, it functions in each person in a unique manner
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Cleansing the elements is about making them free of the accumulated information or karmic substance
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A certain amount of life energy is charged with a certain amount of information, which is traditionally called Karma.
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The significance of Ancestral Influence upon our making cannot be overstated. There are ways and means to ensure Ancestry works as a stepping stone, not a trap
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