How can you enhance your luck? How can you counteract your ill luck?
It is important to understand the concept of luck and ill luck in human life. If a person is lucky, then he or she was born with a silver spoon in their mouth. That person doesn’t have to struggle to make a living. Children of wealthy business people, political leaders, celebrities in entertainment and sports all belong to this category. But such extremely lucky people are also extremely rare. How many people become celebrities in any given area of life? Very few. Most people have to work very, very hard to get even the most basic requirements needed. The situation is worse in 3rd world countries where resources are minimal thereby putting most of its people in eternal want and deficit.
Philanthropists, politicians and lawmakers across the world have been battling with minimal success to address the problem of poverty and lack of resources. It is true that the terms luck and ill luck are not respectable terms among intellectuals because of their metaphysical and religious connotations. I have often talked about poverty being a disease of the soul. If one’s soul espouses poverty thinking at the level of the body and mind, then that particular soul will actualize it in real life. Just as there is congenital illness there is also congenital poverty or prosperity. Congenital prosperity or poverty can only be explained in relation to one’s karma.
Karma need not be understood as a purely metaphysical term. Karma is the law of causality. You think something over and over again, and you then manifest it either in this lifetime or in another lifetime. Generally speaking, if you think about something seriously, the manifestation of it takes place in the next lifetime. Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, Ambani, Carlos Slim, and others became prosperous in this lifetime because of their work from a previous lifetime, or from many previous lifetimes.
As early as the 6th century, the Buddha did not believe in God or the Soul, but rather he believed in thought processes continuing through multiple lifetimes. He called this continuation of thought karma. Prosperity or poverty, high self-esteem or low self-esteem, health or sickness, they are all the solidified thinking process of a particular individual.
My ambition in this lifetime is to help humanity overcome poverty and sickness by diffusing the individual’s karma responsible for these conditions. Whenever there is a disease or problem you should go to the cause of the problem and address it at that level. Finding a superficial, external solution is just like treating the symptom of a disease instead of the cause. The seers of India are scientists of life. They have discovered solutions for all problems – poverty, prosperity, sickness, health, success and failure – through the planets.
If a planet governing money/relationship/health, etc., is weak in a person’s chart, then that area of his/her life will invariably become defective. Most problems are fixable through appropriate remedies as suggested by the yogic seers. Contemporary modern scholars designate astrology as superstition. However, Nadi leaves (as used in Nadi Astrology) that verify personal data of any given individual is the scientific proof for the viability of astrology.
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November 6th, 2007 at 6:08 pm
Dear Datta:
Thank you. We are so grateful you’ve made the Nadi remedies available to everyone, wherever they are on the planet. How do we make things much better for all the people in poorer countries? Thank you for guiding us. Om Dram Dattatreya Siva Baba
November 6th, 2007 at 8:02 pm
This is so clearly stated. My daughter, Eva, was just asking me about this today and I had no quick answers. Thank you, my Guru. She can read it here.
November 8th, 2007 at 7:27 pm
Karma is often explained as cause and effect. To paraphrase Datta, our actions (perceptions, too) create the world in which we live. This is common sense and helpful to all striving to live peacefully, happily and purposefully.
I’m not sure that karmic “baggage” from past lives can explain the suffering in places like Africa, Afghanistan, Nepal, etc. Are these places some kind of refugee work camp for unfortunate souls? Why are all the people with karmic problems from a past life sent to Darfur, while the ones with good karma are sent to Provence?
I also worry that some people might perceive that providing some form of human comfort to people in countries of grinding poverty is treating the symptom of a disease instead of the cause. The suggestion here is that the cause is karma from past lives. The healing of the soul cannot occur without the body having some sustenance.
In this country we often hear of the poor needing to pull themselves up by their own boot straps.
Respectfully Submitted,
Eva
November 13th, 2007 at 2:59 pm
I agree with a lot of this. Datta Ji brings up some good insights. I really think its about changing the way you look at things. This is a Wayne Dyer concept, who was taught by Datta ji as well. “When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” Karma is a lot like limiting beliefs, if not the same thing. It’s a really matter of believing that reality is already manifested. You’re already rich and happy! So, I ask you how would you feel if it was already here and normal. Well, for one thing, you wouldn’t sending out a wanting energy, because you already have it. Instead you would be less focused on making it happen and more on just living life.
Hope this helps. I will try to talk more about it on my blog.
Thanks datta ji,
Mandeep
November 14th, 2007 at 12:41 am
The concept of karma as suffering from a past life seems unfair to me. Why do we have to suffer for things we did that we don’t even remember doing? In the U.S. we do not punish mentally ill persons, who by virtue of their insanity did not understand the consequences of the action they committed. How can we understand the consequences if we don’t even know what we did to offend or when we did it?
November 20th, 2007 at 12:26 am
Heartfelt Respects to Sri. Datta!
It is so true.. when we come into this world, in a dimension, not known to us. We travel into a realm of certainities and uncertainities. We walk on path of action.. that might be positive or negative.
All of us, the ill- the suffereing - the disabled - the rich - the business tycoon.. just about everyone.
However, we are unaware of what the future holds for us.
But here , is where we need to have a moderator in our lives.
To help us enhance our integral self and bring in greater clairty in our decision- making.
To help us exploit our potential and reach out to those who need to be served in the name of humanity.
And there are people out there who might have committed whatever, in the past lives, but it is for us to be there for them.
And there being there, is also a reason for us to better ourselves.. to be humane.. and not just ponder over the fact of disparity in the socieities of the world.
Sri Datta, thank you for bringing us into your fold of positive perception and greater understanding of life.
This will surely help us to live our life to its fullest.
With all due respects
Sastaang Pranams to you!
Sumithra Prasad
December 15th, 2007 at 4:45 am
Phenomenal write up talking about Luck and Ill Luck by Dattatreya Siva Baba. Always enjoy your posts!