Stuck to the Mirror

 The problem with karmic memory is that it has stuck to you.  If everything that passes by sticks to the mirror, it is a no-good mirror. Your mirror can no longer show your life the way it is. Your perception is now seriously clouded. Now karma becomes a limitation. Page 97

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Not Evil

Karma is just your own creation. It is neither virtuous or evil, good nor bad....pg 97

Memory and karma are not evil things. In fact they are the basis for human life.  Without the creation of memory from pure intelligence ( Shi-va- that which is not, God-that which was not born or will ever die, or the dark empty void before the Big Bang etc) there would be no form. Without memory we would not be able to navigate our way on this planet.  We would not have survived, let alone  evolve as a species to where we are now.  And without Karma which is said to be the glue that keeps us in these physical and psychological structures we call "me", there would be no foundation and with no foundation, there would be no transcendence. Karma and memory add variety and uniqueness to us, as individuals  and to the world around us. They add different splashes of colour, music, aromas to our world.  They make Life the amazing thing it is. There is nothing wrong with karma and  memory. They were created for a purpose.

Our Choice

It is what we do with this karmic memory in our approach to Life  that is the problem. We make a choice as Adam and Eve have done . Instead of nourishing the tree of Life, they began to fixate on the succulence of the end product.  They began choosing  product over process, destination over journey, karma over yoga, knowledge over knowing. They were so beguiled by the consequences of their actions that they began to see life as a means to an end. page 93

Our Prejudiced  Perception

It is because you are looking at it through the prism-or prejudice-of memory that something seems wonderful and something seems horrible pg 97

We unfortunately use memory to perceive with and our choices are clouded with our prejudices, our likes and dislikes, our pulling in and our pushing out. We lose the capacity to perceive existence as it is, rather than as we think it is or should be. page 95  We become overly attached to the unique and individual  form and identification karma provides and these boundaries and definitions harden into the walls of a perceived "self". We create comfort zones with our compulsive: "I will do everything I can to repeat that and I will do everything I can not to  repeat this" ideation. We depend heavily on memory in order to get what we want from Life rather than embrace what it is, ignorant to the presence of chitta. Chitta is the deepest level of the mind. It is awareness, aliveness, a profound intelligence that lies beyond intellect, beyond judgement, beyond karma, beyond all divisions. page 95

Imprisoning Ourselves

We lose a sense of contact with that pure intelligence and wisdom from which we emerged. We reduce Life to a means to an end and we become imprisoned by walls of our own making. 

You have spun such a cocoon of confinement around yourself that now you cannot fly free.

It isn't karma or memory that built the walls of this prison.  We did.

All is well.

Sadhguru (2021) A Yogi's Guide to Crafting Your Destiny. [Chapter Five: How Did it all begin?] New York: Harmony Books.