What is that samskara?
To describe samskara it has been said that
the impression of the karma.
The karma is not there, the impression is there.
So we will discuss this karma a little bit to know what impression remains.
Karma, as ordinary people understand, it is action.
But here when we speak of karma it is the result of action.
Karma means the result of action.
Sometimes we say it was my bad karma.
It is my good karma.
Karma means action but here we will take it as a result of action.
Anything we do, its result would come to us.
Nobody else.
You have worked, you have to get the paycheck,
not that I will go and say: “Give the paycheck to me, in my name.”
No!
One who has done anything is to get the result
and that result depends on one's own karma.
Be careful!
Knowingly or unknowingly every day
we are getting engaged, engrossed in many activities - out of ego, out of emotion.
Even if we have done little karma,
but because of our ego and emotional attachment the result of karma becomes also stronger.
Be careful.
Anything we do its result we get instantly to some extent, not completely.
Suppose somebody studied and became a doctor.
The result of his study and being awarded a degree as doctor
gives immediate satisfaction. "I am a Doctor."
And he got some knowledge.
And this result of karma being a doctor
is also continuing to give him the spirit of a doctor, the work of a doctor, the job of a doctor.
So long as he is working as a doctor he is getting the result of his study.
The result of karma is also continuing until his death, you can say.
But that is not ending.
Some part or some knowledge goes further to the next life.
So any Karma we do it gives some instant result.
It gives a continuous result in this life we may not know.
And then even after life some effect is also there.
That is the impression we carry with.
This impression is also functioning in the form of memory.
This impression.
Suppose you saw a person.
The person has gone.
But you have collected an impression in your mind about the person in your memory.
You have an impression. ”Oh he is a nice person."
"I was impressed."
So this is samskara.
When we came to this world
we carried our own karma but this karma is divided.
A part of our own accumulated karma from the past life
has started giving function as soon as we entered the mother's womb.
A part of our karma started giving the result from the mother's womb and it is continuing.
That karma which is going to give result in this life is known as prarabdha karma.
It is known as prarabdha karma
The meaning of the name prarabdha (sanskrit)
Which has started giving results efficiently is prarabdha.
Many times we think: Why is this new born baby suffering?
Why is there misery?
Why is God cruel to this baby?
Remember in this creation of God, in God's eyes, in God's cosmic law there is no cruelty at all.
God is never cruel, God is love.
We get the result of our own karma
although we are here a tiniest part of the load of our karma is giving result.
If we take for example, the total karma load which we have accumulated from the past,
which we have been accumulating in this life until now also, this is also karma.
The load of karma which we have in our backpack
and the result which we are experiencing
may be one millionth part.
You will say: Oh God.
If in this life I am suffering so much my life is miserable.
If you tell one millionth.
What is there?
Good or bad we can't imagine.
People cannot think when we are accumulating karma in this life.
I hate somebody, I dislike somebody, I am angry with somebody,
or I like somebody, I love somebody, I am attached with somebody in any way
again we are multiplying it.
Instead of decreasing the load of karma
people out of ignorance they go on increasing the load of Karma.
Look.
Blessed are we who have accepted the path of spirituality.
We do not want to increase that load of karma rather we want to destroy it.