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eating, you become one with it, and new charging occurs.
As you conduct your business, the discharge is occurring.
You started your business as a result of having charged karma
for such a business. It starts to discharge the day you start your
business, but your becoming engrossed in it will create a new
charging process all over again.
From the moment you were born till the time you die,
everything is discharging. Your current existence in the human
form is a discharge. You had charged for a human birth in your
past life, which is now discharging. The Lord does not object
to any aspect of the discharge process, but the state of your
meditation during the discharge process is of great significance.
For example, in the temple while worshipping the Lord, if your
mind is preoccupied in the shoes you leave outside the temple,
then even in worship, you are charging karma related to the
negative meditation of the shoes.
Drinking water is equivalent to charging, because the
person believes he is the one drinking it. When the water is
converted into urine and excreted, the excretion is equivalent to
discharge.
Scratching an itch is a discharge but one experiences
pleasure in that sensation. All gross activities of the body are a
discharge and there is nothing that merits involvement in it with
pleasure or sorrow. It is the relative self (pratishthit Atma) that
experiences pleasure. The Real Self, shuddhatma, is the Knower
of the relative self. The Knower knows that there will be a
burning sensation from the itching. But to become engrossed in
the pleasure of scratching creates new charging. Discharge moha
is dissipating but at the same time one keeps charging again for
the next life. One may be trying to charge for a human birth but
ends up as a donkey! That is how unpredictable all this is. As
such people have no idea about what is beneficial and what is