Ome, Asatoma, Sadgamaya, Tamasoma, Jhothir Gamaya,

Mritiurma, Amritam Gama,

Ome, Shantay, Shanty, Shanty, He.

Ome, lead us from the unreal to the real, lead us from darkness unto light, lead us

from death to immortality

Ome

peace, peace

peace

From a Vedantic perspective this whole idea of karma and samsara, it proceeds like this,

that we are not aware of our infinite nature.

This is not being aware of our infinite nature, our divine nature.

This is called ignorance.

Not being aware of this infinitude, this completion, this purnatua, this is called ignorance. Not being aware of this infinitude, this completion,

this purnatwa, this ignorance, it makes us feel incomplete. We automatically feel incomplete.

And therefore we reach out into the world, into what appears to us, to complete ourselves.

Actually, nothing in the world can complete us, nor do we need to reach out into the world.

But we reach out into the world to complete ourselves, and this reaching out is karma.

We do something for fulfillment.

And as we do something, the results, we set in motion this law of

karma, cause and effect. We do things good and bad, and it leads to results good and bad.

And once the results are there, once we have got stocked up our karma, it is not exhausted in one

lifetime. It will lead to other lifetimes. And as we get the

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