Acharya Shree, you often mention nikachita karma in your talks. Can you explain the meaning?
Beautiful. Karma is very difficult to understand. This concept is complicated because people think you did something bad, you did something good, that is enough to good result or bad result.
That's what they think about it. But they don't know they have to go in detail. There are categories of main karmas are 8 types of main karma. But how we collect them instead of I am explaining it type of karma, I am explaining it how collect them.
Bad or good. So you have to understand there are particles floating in this whole universe and they are countless particles. They are everywhere.
As soon as your mind, your speech, or your body they all together they act something or react something, good or bad reaction, so the all particles they all come towards you and it makes like a big circle around you.
And they get thicker and thicker and thicker. So, mind, body, and speech. Because many thinks we do only by body. Action belongs to the body. Any action we do, that is the physical.
And activities belongs to your mind. The mind is always in activities, involved in activities. So, that is also kind of action and that is even worse than physical action.
Activities are even more dangerous. What about if we are involved in bad activities all the time? Can you imagine how much bad karma you will collect?
But if someone is involved in good activities, helping, helping, I want to help, I want to help, I want to somehow have compassion, love, or I will want to forgive people, forgive anything, anybody.
So this is like good activities. So the good activities brings the good karma. But there is thoughts also good thoughts, bad thoughts.
They also bring lot of karma. So the karma is, you have 3 things. If 3 things are separate, like you're doing something action by body.
It still doesn't collect the karma which is called nikachita. Or you're doing by your mind only. It still doesn't collect the nikachita karma.
And if your thoughts are bad even, it still doesn't collect the nikachita karma. What collects the nikachita karma?
If your intention is involved there too, by your physical actions suppose. Your intention is bad too. Intention is called leshya. It is a special word for it.
If your leshya is polluted, or your leshya is very good, so leshya, good leshya will bring lot of good karma. Or bad leshya will bring lot of bad karma.
So now I want to categorize this otherwise you will not understand what nikachita means.
There are 4 categories before you reach to the nikachita karmas. First category is called sparsha.
2nd is badha.
3rd is nidatha.
4th is nikachita.
What is sparsha karma? Sparsha karma is like your mind becomes polluted something and you begin to think good or bad.
Like your mind becomes involved, gets involved in good activity, suppose. So, it happen like few seconds. And the good particles around you it comes towards your soul.
And it kind of touching that other layers of the karma, because there are other layers already. It is called sparsha. Sparsha means touches only.
And after that, you get involved in the bad activities. Then, what is going to happen?
You collect other bad particles. So after awhile, after one hour you realized oh you did something bad. My mind was polluted.
It's not good idea. So you straighten out yourself again. And you got involved in good activities a lot.
And suppose you got involved in good activities 5 minutes and whatever it touched to you, they got removed.
Without giving results it goes away. You don't have to get result of that kind of first category. First category is like...
2nd category is badha. Badha karma is like you are involved in very bad activities suppose. And you're almost ready to act upon it and when you're ready to act upon it not only touches the particles it touches the other layers of the karma...
It also stick there. When it stick, is like a glue. It stick there. So that karma has to give you result.
But it is very minor, it is like minimum result. Like somebody and it can happen right away because you just got involved. You're don't really mean it but your negativity is so strong and after awhile your positivity took over it.
But because it not only touched you, it got stuck like a glue. Then you have to work a little hard on it to remove it. It still can be removed without giving the result.
3rd category is nidat. Nidat is not only touch to you or it doesn't stick on you, it sticks hard like more than glue, which is very difficult to remove it, but by efforts you can still remove without even giving result.
3 categories it is in your hand. By efforts you can remove those kind of karma with your efforts and good intention.
But if you're not get involved in good intention and you don't put lot of efforts...efforts is called sadhana. Sadhana is like spiritual practices.
You do lot of mantras, you do lot of meditation, you help other people, or you help lot poor people or a lot of animals, or the nature you help.
So, it is like you are involved in spiritual sadhanas, like fasting suppose. So, this is all many kind of spiritual practices. And that is we just say in one word, sadhana.
By sadhana you can remove all these three. 4th category is nikachita. Nikachita is not removable. You have to taste the result of it, otherwise it doesn't go away, it doesn't leave you.
Otherwise, it doesn't go away. It doesn't leave you. That is very strong. What is strong?
Nikachita karma. Like, somebody is a hunter. Hunter is hunting an animal. And it has a gun.
And by the gun he targets that animal, poor animal. And that gun, suppose the bullet pass through one tree, two trees, three trees, and it hit the animals and the hunter jumps with joy.
"Look at my bullet passed through three trees and plus hit the animals too! I am perfect! I am this..." Yeah, already killing someone and on the top he's celebrating.
Jumping, dancing with joy and happiness. That karma because your intention, bad intention is involved there, that is called leshya. Krishna leshya.
And krishna leshya is the worst intention. When you jump with the joy, when you dance, you celebrate, and you did bad something. So, your karma will be nikachita.
Nikachita means now it cannot be removed by efforts, but it can be reduced a little bit.
If you will do lot of sadhanas, lot practices, spiritual practices, it will reduce the result, but if you never do the spiritual sadhanas it is never going to reduce.
It can become even worse. If somebody has this kind of bad nikachita karma I am talking, and the person's not involved in the spiritual sadhanas, spiritual practices, it is going to give even more results.
Worse result. But if somebody after collecting this bad nikachita karma they get involved somehow with spiritual practices, sadhana, then they reduce the result, the bad result.
Like if somebody's supposed to get hanged suppose, that was the result. So, that person by efforts it might reduce so that person might be in the jail for two years.
That much can be reduced. But it will still give to you. All these first three karmas, they can be removed by sadhana without giving result. But the 4th karma it has to give you result no matter it is a good karma nikachita or bad karma nikachita.
The good karma like you collected the good karma that your supposed to be a king then somehow you got involved in the monkhood before you get to become even a king then how it will give that result?
Because it is not removable and you are a monk. But as a monk you will be respected more than a king.
That's the way it's going to give the result different way.
But it has to give the result. It is better not to collect the nikachita karma. Nikachita karma is like you jump with the joy.
With happiness you dance, you celebrate. And if it is bad it becomes worse karma. And if you jump with joy, with happiness for something good it is a good nikachita karma.
It will give results too. Choice is yours what you want to do. One more little thing then you will understand.
First category of karma is sparsha. It touches you. It is like drywall and you throw dry sand to the wall. It touches the wall and it falls down to the ground because the wall is dry, sand is dry.
That is called first category. It is just you have bad thoughts bad mind, something and then you switch yourself by good thoughts or good mind so it touches you and it falls down.
Without giving results. 2nd is badha. Badha is like the sand is a little wet and you throw to the wall, the few sands will fall down and will stick.
And now wall will get dirty you have to put efforts to remove it. But, third category is like a clay. The clay which is like wet clay and you throw to the wall and the clay will stick to the wall and by the time it dries it is like really sticking...
...to the wall then you have to put little efforts to remove it, but it is still removable. But 4th is like a rock and that rock is like a big rock and you want to dissolve that rock.
You need lot of efforts to put it. You can still do it but it's not because the pieces of rock, it might take you a big time. So you need to put lot of efforts, lot of efforts. But it might reduce the result only a little bit.
That is nikachita karma. Nikachita karma is like a big, huge rock. And it is like very difficult to remove that rock. It needs a little effort. You can reduce it, you can make maybe the pieces of it, but it is very difficult to disappear everything.
To disappear everything you need lot of, lot of efforts, lot of sadhanas. And it will only reduce your nikachita karma's result. That is the fourth category.
And nikachita karma. I tell you never collect the nikachita karma. 3 categories karma good but not fourth. Jaya Siddhaatma.
Can you reach enlightenment if you have nikachita karma or the first three categories of karma? Yes. This is also good question.
That people ask more often enlightenment. Nikachita karmas are there. That is the big blockage in the enlightenment, because nikachita karma has to give the result first.
If you collected bad or if you collected good. Both ways you have to, they have to give you the result. Without result they cannot be broken.
So you have to work hard on it until you get the result, you're not able to get enlightenment. So, it is the worst thing to have it.
You cannot get enlightenment. There is no way. But, yes, three types, sparsha, badha, and nidat I mentioned they are not obstacle in the way of enlightenment because they are removable by sadhana.
So, that's what I tell people. Get more in sadhana. Put lot of efforts. At least 3 types of karmas can be removed. 4th category you have to wait. And that's why your enlightenment can be stalled, delayed.
So it is difficult. So, whenever you understand this concept you will not collect nikachita karma at all. Pay attention to your intention. Your intention has to be neutral. Neutral means you are not expecting the result even you are doing lot of good
things, don't expect that I want to go to heaven, I want to be a king, I want to be this, I want to be that. Those nikachita karma will give you results.
Your intention is not involved and you are involved in the good activities, you're doing by good physical actions good thing others, so no expectation, no desire to get anything back,
so it means your karma begins to burn. When your karma begins to burn that is the way to reach towards enlightenment.
Jai Siddhatma.