Book Review- Karma: A Yogi's Guide to crafting your destiny by Sadhguru




For many of us the word Karma means something related to good and bad deeds. But in his book on Karma, Sadhguru provides the many dimensions of Karma and its implications.

I have listed some major points/quotes that I had noted while reading the book:
  • Karma has nothing to do with moralistic categories of good and bad; it is related only to cause and effect.
  • Volition meaning self-decision or self will: the basis of karma.
  • Eight Dimensions of memory:
  • Elemental Memory = 5 elements: earth, water, fire, air, either/sky. How these shape us.
  • Atomic Memory = atoms/cells that make up the body.
  • Evolutionary Memory = civilizational, biology of homo sapiens.
  • Genetic Memory =  DNA, physical + psychological characteristics.
  • Karmic Memory = combination of impressions on various levels.
  • Sensory Memory = physical environment + perceiving by our 5 sense organs.
  • Inarticulate Memory = unconscious memory (information accumulated but not aware).
  • Articulate Memory = conscious memory.
  • Transcend all these memories to become architects of our own destiny.
  • When you live free from impressions/memories you become mystic.
  • Go through experience without attaching/resisting with it.

 

"You only have the right to action never to its outcome"

 

"Hesitation is the worst of all crimes." -Sri Krishna 

"Everything that comes from memory spells karmic bondage."
  
     "Involvement without entanglement."

 

  • Empty our allotted Karma through less reaction, less compulsion, no strong likes and dislikes and through meditation ! 
  •  All human actions are either: karma-nashana(reduction) or karma-vriddhi(increment).  
  • Engaging with action with great involvement and intensity but without caring a hoot for it, is the most effective way to work out Karma.
  • Less physical touch with others = Less Karma.
  • Buddha = above Buddhi or Intellect 
  • Mystic = dropped intellect completely: no Karma, no bondage.

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