10 The Flawless Vision
tree, you will bind karma. To have good intentions about others will bind merit karma and through negative intentions for others you will bind demerit karma.
When you come to satsang and see people standing around, you may ask yourself why they are standing around and thereby spoil your inner intent. You must immediately do pratikraman for this mistake.
There Are Only Two Things In The World
There are only two things: the Pure Soul and circumstances. Why do circumstances arise? Everyone faces different circumstances. One person never encounters hostility in his entire life, while another suffers abuse all the time. Why do two people encounter entirely different circumstances? The reason for this is that the one living a peaceful life has never had the intent to hurt anyone, while the one being abused has had numerous intentions to hurt other living beings. How do these circumstances arise? It is possible to find the causes of these circumstances.
Say you come across a very poor old man in the street and you give him eleven dollars. Your friend is astounded that you are giving him so much money and tells you to give the old man only one dollar. Now you are the giver and the old man is the receiver, but since your friend interceded, he created an obstruction for the recipient. An obstructive karma has been created for your friend. This obstructive karma of your friend will prevent the inflow of money to him in the life to come.
All that you encounter in your life are the collective circumstances of everything you had done in your previous life. They are not new circumstances. You have no superior power above you nor do you have anything that works beneath you. The world is entirely independent. Your mistakes and your blunders