Monday, May 14, 2007

4.9-4.12 Subconscious impressions

These sutras explain that karma and samkaras are eternal. They began with creation when humans were given sensory organs (the normal five plus limbs and perception) and integrated with the gunas on the wheel of life and rebirth. Swamji compares it to working on a project, taking a vacation and coming back to the same project afterwards. He explains that this is the reason for déjà vu. That karma is uninterrupted between lives, between rebirths, only when the yogini has transcended avidya or ignorance and shed all karma can she then not be reborn.

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