Philosophical teaching 11
The reasons why you are born in a particular family are always multiple. In the first place, because in that given family the environmental conditions suitable for the evolutionary needs of the individual to be incarnated have come to be created. But another reason (important, and not secondary to what I have just mentioned) lies in what are the karmic bonds.
You know that in every life that the individual leads, he performs actions and has reactions from other individuals; this causes a continuous exchange of what are called karmic actions from individual to individual, which need to be balanced, compensated, resolved by the individual himself for his understanding. It is thus that the individual who is incarnated is born in a certain environment, with certain parents, with certain brothers, with certain friends: precisely in order to also be able to compensate these debts or these karmic credits, accumulated in the course of previous lives.
This does not mean that all members of the same family, for example, have the same evolution; it is not necessary that the evolution of the various members is always more or less the same: this depends on many different factors.
However, do not think, in relation to yourself for example, that you can judge whether or not there is this difference, because remember that what you see of an individual is theIo of that individual in that lifetime, and it is not the image of his feel real, therefore its feeling cannot be judged by what it appears when examining the image of a single life. Andrea
It happens very often to ask oneself, in observing for example creatures that are born in environments that are not suitable for them, how much this environment can affect the future of that individual's life, how much it affects his spirituality, his evolution.
Certainly the environment will influence, even if, however, in a minimal part; in fact, the external environment has an importance, because it affects the energies that this creature begins to hold back and put around. It also depends on how long the creature in formation remains in that environment (which we have defined inadequate), since, obviously, a long stay will not give it the possibility of using such high and spiritual matter.
If we look at the problem from another point of view, such as that of spiritual teachings, we can come to understand that the fact that this new creature is born in that environment was already written before it incarnated and that, therefore, the his finding himself in an environment that is not too suitable is not accidental. In fact it is just like that, because, as the Guides have always said, there is no chance, and everything is prepared for its spiritual evolution.
On the other hand, how can one think that the case exists? In fact, in every circumstance there is always too high a number of possibilities, of probabilities, of coincidences that should occur, to be just a coincidence.
But let's try to look at the problem from yet another point of view; certainly the parents of this creature somehow created the environment in which the creature is growing up, and it is logical to ask ourselves how these should feel, whether to create feelings of guilt or not, since everything was already foreseen.
Certainly creating feelings of guilt is illogical, while it is not illogical to try to act, to do something to change the situation. In this regard, an example regarding the knowledge of individual karmas may be useful; in fact knowing that a karma exists does not mean that it must be accepted without trying to modify it; indeed, the almost always unsuccessful attempt to modify it frequently leads to a spiritual evolution of the individual and, therefore, to the overcoming of karma itself.
However, it is good that parents always try, in some way, to improve the environmental conditions in which the new creature will grow up: this for their own good and for the good of the creature itself. Boris
I imagine that sometimes the achievement of an understanding or part of it can coincide with the overcoming of karma… is that so?
It is becoming increasingly clear that the so-called Free Will is an increasingly narrow field ...
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For Nadia.
I think the opposite formulation is more correct: overcoming karma is always linked to reaching a broader understanding.
The opposite, in fact, is not necessarily true, since a karma can be complex and linked to dependent understandings between them, so that a single understanding may not be sufficient to resolve karma.
I share the perspective, although personally, I tend not to lean on the investigation of personal karma which I believe can be pursued with extreme caution.
It may also be interesting and functional for some to plumb karmic bonds within a research group or spiritually oriented community.
Thank you. In the last part, the call to individual responsibility is interesting, although everything is already foreseen for the spiritual evolution of the individual and one could therefore think that any choice leaves the time it finds. But perhaps, rather than relinquishing responsibility, knowing that chance does not exist should help us get up when we fall, knowing that the fall was also foreseen, and if it was foreseen it could only be so because even through it we could take a small step forward in the long run. process of understanding ourselves.
It expresses the right balance and interaction between karmic needs and the voluntary possibility of evolution.
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Thanks Gianfranco, it's clearer now!
Thank you!
Very interesting and pacifying as described above by the post. In particular, knowing that it is the action that determines understanding, even if this does not necessarily change events.
It refers to the usefulness of knowing one's karma. What exactly is meant,
analyze the events of one's life and try to understand what are the lessons that we must draw from them? But this we always do, regardless of whether the situation was determined by karma or not.
So how can we be sure we make sense of what happens?
It does not seem to me that the Guides have said that it is necessary or very useful to know one's karma, except as an indicator of the points in which, in the individual's feeling, there are misunderstandings to be resolved,
On the contrary, they stressed that it is not necessary to know what was wrong in previous lives because, in any case, the elements to understand are present in the situations that are lived in the current life.
Knowing that in a past life you were king, murderer or whatever is not very useful: what you were had value in that era and in those inner conditions, but now you have moved on and it was a different ego for understanding of what affects our current life.
I believe that the usefulness of knowing and keeping in mind the concept of karma lies mainly in the awareness that if we are subjected to a karmic effect this is a consequence of our responsibilities not adequately understood (whose misunderstanding, as I said, also belongs to life in course) and it is a symptom of the fact that we have not yet understood, although we almost always have all the elements available to do so, some particular aspect of feeling.
Karma is resolved today by not thinking about past lives.
Then there is the unsolvable karma: this type of karma is to be traced back to such deep misunderstandings that only by trying particularly heavy situations directly and for a long time does one have the direct experience of what it is essential to understand by following a sort of law of retaliation: to do an example, if we have carried with us in the various lives the misunderstanding that led us not to share what we had with those who asked for our help, we could suffer the karmic effect of finding ourselves in the condition of having to ask others for help without receiving it any. It seems a cruel thing but it should not be forgotten that the aim is always not to punish individuality, but to help her to broaden her feeling.
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Thanks Gianfranco for this explanation. All this involves observing the facts of one's life not with conventional means, but trusting that everything makes sense for one's own evolution. When the suffering is great and lasts over time, it is not easy to remain in trust. If I understand correctly, by virtue of the law of retaliation, even if there is no full awareness of the meaning of certain events, these will still lead to an evolution.
Yes, that's right.
On the other hand, evolution always goes on, whether one is aware of it as an embodied individual or not!
And I really believe that it cannot be otherwise ...