THE PERFECT SCIENCE
OF KARMA 

SATSANG OF SWAMI AMAR JYOTI
© 2004 TRUTH CONSCIOUSNESS

AS LONG AS THERE IS EGO, YOU WILL HAVE KARMA, THE CAUSE AND
EFFECT SEQUENCE RECORDED IN THE AKASHIC RECORD OF YOUR MIND . . .
EACH AND EVERY WORD, EACH AND EVERY CONSCIOUS OR UNCONSCIOUS
THOUGHT, EVEN IN SLEEP AND DREAMS . . . EVERY MOMENT THROUGHOUT THE
TWENTY-FOUR HOURS IS RECORDED IN THIS AKASHIC RECORD.

HERE IS THE SUBSTANCE, SPIRIT, LIGHT, CONSCIOUSNESS, the basic building block of creation, which is changeless and immortal. And here is a shape or form, a limited entity. In between is a certain force called shakti—movement or vibrations. Together, the Substance and shakti formulate matter. There are three stages involved: the unchanging Substance or Spirit, the subtle movement, and the gross movement of the form. When the matter of the form dissolves—let’s say in death—if only the unchanging Substance remained, then of course there would be no reincarnation and no karma left. But because of the astral, subtle, intermediary vibrations, when the physical form dies or disintegrates, it resides into this second stage, vibrations. This vibratory body is kept together as a unit, a subtle astral personality. It keeps on living with the unifying factor that we call ego or I-consciousness, which we also call “mind.” When the body dies, the astral phenomena or vibrations are not affected, with this one important exception: the impressions of the physical body do remain on it. If someone dies by accident, for example, the shock of that accident will remain as a seed in the astral personality. This astral unit or mass is what reincarnates and carries with it the effects of karma, the law of cause and effect.
      Let’s say in the physical form we did good or bad, suffered or enjoyed; these all leave their impressions on the vibrations as an astral record or what is called an akashic record. In those vibrations are recorded: what you did, what you didn’t do; what you liked, disliked, enjoyed, suffered; what you hid and what you exposed; whether you denied things or accepted them. Each and every word, each and every conscious or unconscious thought, even in sleep and dreams—A to Z phenomena—every moment throughout the twenty-four hours is recorded in this akashic record. If you were an expert you could read volumes on any person in this record: each detail of each moment of each day. This astral body retains the entire record of the cause and effect sequence called karma. That is why you carry karma with you while you are living and after you die.
      The “I-ness” or ego is a very important factor as far as karma is concerned. Let’s say your physical form is there; my physical form is here. You are thinking inside; I am thinking inside. I am using the word I; you are using the word I. That I you cannot see. You can see the physical body but the person who is trying to communicate with you is not simply a body. There are some other vibrations traveling to you. Who is doing this projection of vibrations? “I.” This I, as a thought, an idea, a conception, projects to you through the medium of speech or without speech. So this I-ness is what is making me what I am and making you what you are. Karma theory is totally dependent upon the identification of I-ness.