For
understanding purposes you can look at anger. You know a man whether he is angry by
looking at him. His posture is different, he is
screaming, his eyes are raging, he is screaming. But, it is difficult to see anger itself.
If you could look inside the person, anger can be seen
surrounding the preson. It is an energy that has its own roots.
Awareness and witnessing is the art of getting to know this
energy.
Once one becomes aware of the gunas (modes) of prakriti
(nature) behind the karma, then it becomes possible to trans- cend the modes and go to
what is termed gunateet (beyond the modes).
Then whatever karma flows out of you (in this state of
gunateet) is similar to Nishkam karma and there is no question of deposit in the virtual
account.
Prakriti pushes a person to do different karmas by a
combination of the three gunas. Satva guna is purer than the other gunas and it frees from
all sinful actions. |