Interpretive Translation by Joseph Le Page
The kleshas are the root cause of karma. As long as they are present, karma’s effects, both seen and unseen, will be experienced in the form of birth, a particular lifespan, and experiences that are pleasurable or painful depending on the virtuous or non-virtuous actions accumulated in each person’s “karmic account”.
Commentary by Joseph Le Page – Closing the Karmic Account
For the person of action, likes and dislikes, habits and needs, are perceived to be “me”, while for the yogi, they are layers of belief to be released, revealing the true essence of your being.
For the person of action, problems lie in the world outside, while for the yogi, problems lie in the mind, and their solution is learning to discern between conditioning and the authentic Self inside.
For the person of action, the desired fruits are control, success and wealth, while for the yogi, wealth lies in cultivating mind-body health that slowly unfolds as the lived experience of the Self.
For the person of action, life’s many paths and promises are complex, but for the yogi, life is a one-pointed quest - to use this precious time between birth and death to unite with your spiritual essence.
For the person of action, the fruits are seldom what you expect; they range from pleasure to pain and end in addict...ion to fulfillment, while the yogi learns to rest in the Self’s essential wholeness.
And recognizing your inherent wholeness is the key to awakening freedom of being, for when you judge yourself as defective or in need, something will always be required to make you feel complete.
And no amount of action will ever fulfill your needs, because all you seek - security, prosperity community or liberty - are ultimately just dim reflections of the freedom of your intrinsic being.
And although actions that bear positive fruits are infinitely better than ones from which pain and sorrow accrue, both strengthen the ego’s “truth” when firmly bound to a doer and an end in view.
But after so many lives wearing the ego’s disguise, de-conditioning takes time, and meditation is the lens that reveals beliefs to be only movements in the mind, showing us the true face that lies behind.
For if my thoughts and beliefs are “me”, closing the karmic account will take eternity, but when they are clearly seen as only conditioned movements in the mind, their release is only a matter of time.
And you don’t need to know your past lives to see how karma obscures your sight, just reflect on how limiting beliefs constrict your light, using life as a mirror for cultivating clear insight.
And your lifetimes of karma were never mistakes, only essential steps in preparing you to wake to this unique moment of clear seeing, as you are guided home to the reunion with your own true being.
And along this journey toward pure being, your personality doesn’t cease to be, but becomes a vehicle to manifest your true... destiny, realization of the Self that is always inherently free.
And as you release belief in a life of loss and gain, there is gradual release from emotional pain, and only a single question remains, are you aligned with the Self or still struggling in the ego’s domain?
But long before the fruits of action have finally lost their hold, transforming binding desires into preferences will surely lighten life’s load, cultivating the clarity to see your own true road.
And although painful emotions may arise for a time, when they are no longer identified as “I” or “mine”, they lose their power to bind, and you come to rest in the natural freedom of the mind.
And when finally free, the jiva mukti lights the lamp of wisdom for other beings to see, but with no sense of something to be achieved or done, because the actor, the action and the result have all become one.
And as your store of core beliefs is released, your actions become reflections of your true inner being, and when the fruits of action are no longer owned, your karmic account is permanently closed.
And the sages say that this is where rebirth ends, but it is also where your life begins, for as karma’s colored glasses are lifted from your eyes, you see clearly for the very first time.
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