VLVL(5) - Karma: Meaning & Definition

[David Morris]

from:
http://www.spiritweb.org/Spirit/Veda/karma.html

To the rishi seers, karma appeared with such fundamental force and 
substantive reality that they perceived it as one of the thirty-six primary 
evolutes of form, called tattvas, which range from Parashakti, pure 
consciousness, to prithivi tattva, earth. Karma is number eight, called 
niyati tattva, a spiritual-magnetic energy form. This identification of its 
magnetic quality is a crucial clue to understanding how karma "comes back," 
rather than just "goes out." Each karma, or action, generates a vibration, 
a distinct oscillation of force, a vasana, or subliminal inclination that 
continues to vibrate in the mind. These vasanas are magnetic conglomerates 
of subconscious impressions. Like attracts like. Acts of love attract 
loving acts, malice attracts malice. And each action, karma, continues to 
attract until demagnetized. This is accomplished through re-experiencing 
it, or resolving it with understanding -- rather than compounding it with 
reaction -- or through other subtler spiritual means and practices.

Me:
This "demagnetizing" of karma "through re-experiencing it, or resolving it 
with understanding" seems the essence of karmic adjustment.

For a:
 "SERIES IN ELEVEN LESSONS in KARMA YOGA
(THE YOGI PHILOSOPHY OF THOUGHT-USE)
and THE YOGIN DOCTRINE OF WORK By BHIKSHU "
Go to:
http://www.spiritweb.org/Spirit/Yoga/karma-yoga.html