— A very interesting topic. The main law of the Universe that governs life. People probably feel afraid: for many, the main fear is the fear of random blows of fate. Life seems unpredictable. For example, who could have imagined there would be COVID-19 or other events that seem to be happening quite often in the world now?
Is there a universal law a person can rely on to trust life and to explain events that seem unfair?
It’s a worn-out word, really, even a bit devalued — “karma.” It’s almost a joke now. If something doesn’t work out, people say: “What do you expect? It’s karma.” And it feels like there are even YouTube videos like: “12 laws of the Universe — do good, and money will come,” etc. As if it’s all a direct cause. You do something nice now — and you wait for the reward. I think that’s the common understanding of karma today. Like in childhood, when you imagine some angry grandpa is sitting in the sky watching you: if you do something wrong — he punishes you. I think most people perceive karma at that level. I’m very curious to hear how you see it, to broaden my understanding of these laws, of karma. It’s a very complex concept that triggers a bit of an allergic reaction in many right now. Karma, karma — everyone talks about it, but no one knows what it is.
— To get to whether one of the greatest laws of the Universe is the presence of a system of causes and effects (and it truly is), and to come to a description and understanding of karma or the structure of the world, and to understanding how causes and effects work, we first need to approach the fact that people perceive the world differently. That’s very important. Because if we don’t anchor into that, we’ll be talking on completely different poles.
💡We need to lay a foundation to realize: I did certain actions in life — will they bring me good events or bad ones, and will they bring anything at all? If I’m doing something good or bad now — will that bring me good or evil?
Why do people say: “I haven’t done anything bad in life, so why was my child born ill?” Or: “I had a friend — his child died, or three of his children died.” Or: “I did nothing bad, and my whole family died in a car accident.” Or: “I did nothing bad, but I can’t make money.” Why do people say that? At the same time, interestingly, when something good happens to someone, they say: “I did it.” They don’t say it’s some external circumstance that came from outside. They say: “I deserve it, that’s why I did it.” It’s very typical for people. Why is that?
To understand, we first need to sort out what initial views and points of support people have. There are people — and they are the majority on planet Earth today, in the 21st century — who perceive the world as material. A person lives in a material world, and the spiritual world is a part of this world. And when such a person talks about karma, they talk about an invented story inside the material world. When they talk about the laws of the Universe, they are talking about the laws of the Universe within the material world. This is very important — these are two absolutely different perceptions.
If someone now says: “Well, it’s obvious that when we talk about the laws of the Universe and karma, we aren’t talking about the material world,” then I’ll give a very clear explanation of how a person will ask, what they will say, and what they will propose. There is a world — there is a stance, a viewpoint that is guaranteed to be true and real. But everyone is free to choose what they want. Namely: there is a spiritual world, and within the spiritual world there is the material world; the material world lives by the laws of the spiritual world — with its own rules and nuances — but it’s created within the spiritual world and is a projection of it. When a person talks about karma, they’re talking about something that lives and works primarily outside the material world. First and foremost — outside. We’ll get to that too.
Depending on which position a person considers this topic from, it can be analyzed and decisions can be made based on that. I’ll try to show both positions so that the reader can decide for themselves — depending on their inner foundation: where you are, how you perceive, what you think, and how you realize it.
Do you simply believe it? Or do you know it? That’s a big difference.
For example: what color is the plant? Green. Correct. And the lamp — beige. Seems clear. You and I may be off on tones, half-tones, lighting, but it’s clear enough. You don’t “believe” this — you know it. If a blind person is sitting with us, they don’t see this plant. Do they know there’s a green plant here? No, they believe it; they don’t know. A person reading the article can only know it if they see a photo or video shot in this room. Then they can determine what plant is there. Moreover, we haven’t even said whether it’s real or artificial. It’s a fiddle-leaf fig (ficus lyrata). We live in California and know that a huge number of these ficuses in different cafés and restaurants are artificial. And I often see such beautiful ficuses and can’t tell whether they’re artificial or real; I often go up and check. Usually they’re real. There are many real ones — unbelievably beautiful. Yes, they’re undemanding plants. But notice — we don’t even know whether it’s alive or artificial. I’m not even talking about color.
So this is an incredibly important aspect: a person believes — or a person knows.
Any discussion at the level of “let’s debate it” — that’s one thing. Then there’s a transitional moment — faith. And then there’s the transition — knowledge. We must immediately state: these are three different states. There is just discussion. There is faith. And faith is a fairly stable state. But there is the state of knowledge. And knowledge is guaranteed to be different from non-knowledge. In most cases, when people discuss karma, they act from a state of mere discussion. That’s very important. If they act from a state of discussion, of study, then it’s crucial what state you’re in.
Do you perceive the spiritual world from the material? Or do you understand that there is a spiritual world, and you are in the material, and everything concerning karma (which also operates in the material) — is somewhere outside, in another plane of perception?
Most modern people are absolutely materialized. They’ll say: “It’s all nonsense. What karma? What past lives? What universes?” Yet they will go to church, light candles, pray, hang icons, avoid crossing the road if a black cat runs by; they will do a huge number of very strange actions. They will go to some country where they “need to go and do a ritual.” They’ll be told that “the Dalai Lama does this ritual every day” and that “saints did it 15,000 years ago” and that “this monastery is 7,000 years old.” The more such details you pile on, the faster the most hardened materialist will jump to the front row, stand there, shoot Reels, and say: “I was today in the holiest and most enlightened place! Can you imagine which one!” They’ll do anything, highlight it, fully enter into it.
But wait — decide! If you highlight this construct for yourself and create it as an object of the material world, you must understand: you simply created a program on a computer. It’s not real. And if you created a program on a computer, how will it change your inner state because you walked through that place and performed that ritual? But people do it. Why? Because there are certain impulses acting from the outside, which no one explained to them — and perhaps never will.
Humanity wants to explain the structure of the world and the Universe. They say: “20 million years ago this happened, and in 30 million years that will happen.” Based on science of the last 100–300 years, they build projections. Then they’re mistaken. They say: “This one got a Nobel Prize.” Ten years later they say: “He was wrong.” They give a new Nobel Prize to the one who re-examined and re-studied it. Then they find something else new. But how can a human study 30 million years if they can’t even study the ocean? If they can’t study themselves? They can’t even make a copy of a human. They cannot make a simple copy of a human. If you think humans are so brilliant and smart that they understand everything — then make a copy of a human. It should be simple, you think.
The key to understanding cause-and-effect relationships and karma is the awareness of your own point of support.
Now let’s deal with the next question: what is a person’s birth and entry into the chain of causes and effects? A person is born and chooses the family they will come into. This is very important — a person chooses the family where they will be born. A person resembles their parents not because the parents wanted it that way, but because the spiritual being chose to be similar to these parents. And if there are shifts in terms of resemblance, there are other reasons for that. So they land there with a certain chain of tasks, life actions, with the life they are to live.
Karma is not merely “something good must happen” or “something bad must happen.” It is life itself. In general, you can say that karma equals life, because in some aspects this very concept — in terms of movement, energies, elements, planets — is life. But having landed in a particular family, a person enters into heredity. And, having found themselves in the heredity of a specific family, people are inclined to say: “It probably came from grandma or grandpa.” It’s not that simple. A person, having fallen into heredity, becomes a slave to this heredity. Especially in the modern world, when parents start “stuffing” the child with a huge number of things, closing the child’s perception so much that a huge number of people on planet Earth haven’t even approached the understanding of karma. They haven’t even gotten to it — they remained in heredity.
💡By the way, for their spiritual being, for the Universe and for the spiritual beings of the world, it makes no difference that they haven’t approached it. They didn’t — they’ll approach it in the next life. Because the child will be stuffed with tutors. Soon, it seems, tutors will appear even before the child opens their eyes, so they can read faster, write faster, work with trainers faster. Everything, absolutely everything. It feels as if, because there are now more coaches and trainers, the world has more Olympic champions. But no. There are simply more kids being filled with everything under the sun for the sake of achievement. In reality, not living in their own karma, but creating the karma of heredity, parents close the child off from perceiving themselves.
One of the best things a person can do for personal development — frankly, the key — is to learn to constantly develop, to be in a state of awareness: personal development, professional, business development, development of relationships, family. Constantly, over a long time. That’s why I launched the V100 program. A program anyone can join by subscription and take part in sessions every two or three weeks. You can ask absolutely any questions, which I personally address by topics. And now we’re doing a new start. You can join and leave at any time. The price is small — $50, 5,000 rubles. And it’s a very strong step toward development.
Let’s assume a person “slipped through” and lives in their karma. Until age 21, a person does not live by karma — their life is being formed, preparing them to live their karma. Full living of karma starts at 29, and the period from 21 to 29 is a mixed stage, when the person is still in preparation. Of course, there are cycles of connections and movements, but it’s important to understand: this is a different perception of life — life consists of periods. A person has periods. And, as I said, they might not even approach their karma. What is that?
Can there be a situation where a person thinks: “I did certain deeds, took certain actions, but something didn’t happen to me. It feels like something is off. Maybe I need to find the purpose of my life, to understand, perhaps I’m not doing my own thing.” And the person says: “Now I’ll understand.” They place themselves above life itself, claiming they will now find the “work of their life.” But you’ve already been doing some work for 20, 30, 40 years! Who told you that you are capable of approaching other aspects of perception and self-understanding? And the person says: “If I do good deeds now, I’ll get good results in the future.”
💡But if you really want to study this concept, you must say: “Since karma exists, based on the events that occur, it has the movement of bad and good things; therefore, there is an accumulated volume of unrealized karma.” And that accumulated volume is always greater than your current life. If that accumulated volume is always greater than your life, who told you that because you’re doing good deeds now, they will bring you good results? Who said that the accumulated volume of negative things doesn’t exceed your positive effect ten thousand times over? Whatever good you do in this life, you may not even feel it, because everything is compensated by negative aspects. Or who told you that whatever good you do, you’ll get the result in this life at all? Perhaps it will happen in the next life, or in two, or three.
Most of the events that occur between ages 28 and 49 and beyond — the major, serious events — roll into the accumulation of karma forward, not into this life. They don’t even belong to the current incarnation. Moreover, when you do some good deed, it can be a consequence of your karmic living. It’s already living through and working out many other things. You think you performed a good deed so that in the future it will be good. But in fact you did it because karmically you had to perform a good deed. And it has nothing to do with “future good.”
And here we come to a fundamental moment — one of the biggest problems a person has. They say: “I will do an action because it will make me feel good,” or “I won’t do an action because it’ll make me feel bad.” The only reason you cannot commit untrue, evil deeds — killing, deceiving, stealing, manipulating people, punishing them — is that other people are people. Not that “you’ll feel good or bad.” There is no direct linear correlation. It’s nonlinear.
What does “nonlinear” mean? The fact is that a person does not know how to exchange energy. People have learned a tiny bit to exchange money — and even that unreliably. Let’s imagine: reading this article would cost $5. Does that mean everyone would pay $5? Not at all. For someone, this article might switch on a state that transforms the next 40 years of their life. Then perhaps they should have paid $50,000? Does this person sense, see, understand how to properly exchange energy?
We see circumstances that exist. There is a person who created a company and earned $10 billion, and their richest employee earned a million. Are we sure the exchange of energy was correct? The owner earned the money, although perhaps the employee was the one doing it. And often — the reverse. Is that surely the correct exchange of karma? Is that certainly the right chain of causes and effects? Is that surely the right action?
— So my first question follows exactly from your question. What is good and what is bad? We’re taught now that the world isn’t black and white; there are many shades. And this law of causes and effects, seemingly, if you explain it to a first-grader: you did something good — in this or the next life you’ll get something good.
But what you did as “good” for yourself can be bad for another. Even if I want to get on a spiritual path and follow this law — what measure should I use to assess whether an action is bad or good? What should I rely on — the laws of the Bible, the commandments?
— If a person starts dividing actions into good and bad, first of all, they do it for themselves. Why do they want to do it? Because they want to determine: “Am I doing good or bad in order to get good or bad?” For that, they need a story. But if we’re talking about how I need to do true things simply because they must be done, then the very concept of “good” and “bad” disappears. Then a person begins to try to see truly — to see what is actually happening. And seeing truly is incredibly hard.
I recently told an example in a video: there are two twin children, born into one family. One at age five looks at a kitten and feels a strong sense of love. The other looks at the same kitten and wants to kill it. What is that impulse? Where does it come from? What’s going on? It turns out there are people who believe: killing others is permissible. They believe it’s right. There are people who say: you mustn’t kill — but deceiving is fine. There are those who believe: you mustn’t deceive — but manipulation is fine. There are those who say: you mustn’t manipulate — but stealing is fine. And some are sure that you mustn’t deceive others, but deceiving yourself is fine. And so a person moves from one state to another.
Here arises the question of the inner state in which a person is. We can explain as much as we like, tell stories, show different examples — a person either has the impulse or they don’t. They have the impulse to understand that cheating on a husband or wife is wrong, that husband and wife are a union of two — or they don’t. You can talk as much as you like, but someone may believe that killing people is permissible. Believe.
💡This is a very interesting moment. There is discussion, and there is faith. And the question arises: how to come to knowledge? How not to get confused between discussion, faith, and knowledge? The only thing that can help here is the expansion of one’s own perception. That’s a separate topic altogether — what the expansion of perception is, what it means to feel oneself, to hear the world, to understand different things. But let’s return to the laws of the Universe.
Point #1. If you cannot determine, don’t understand — whether something is true or not true — ask yourself: “Do I want to do or not do this action for myself? Or am I reasoning about other people?” For example, I want to feel good, and I think: “It would be good to do it like this.” But if I begin to decide whether it’s true or not based on whether “I’ll feel good,” that’s destruction. That is the biggest mistake in karma — to do something so that “I will have.”
There are many such traps. For example, karmic management. But you must understand the consequences you will bear. What are consequences? Since a person doesn’t understand the exchange of energy, something “swells up” in one place, and something transforms in another. And in ten years this transformation manifests in life as an element. For example, an element that causes a catastrophic experience of losing a loved one. A person wakes up every morning and cannot live with it. And somewhere in the past it “swelled up” — they made money. Karmic management is about money, after all. They earned, but do they have a connection with that experience? No. They don’t understand the connection. Moreover, they won’t build it, because they are in a purely material perception: “do good things — get good things.” That “if you’re a good person, everything will be good.” That’s not true. If you are a good person, everything may be bad for you in this life.
And now we approach an important point. When we talk about causes and effects, when we talk about a person’s development, we must understand: is it important for a person to be happy, to have “everything good”? Or is it important to follow the laws of the Universe? Does a person follow the laws of the Universe for happiness? Or follow them simply because they are the laws of the Universe? And here, again, is a very interesting aspect. If a person reasons about the laws of the Universe, then at least they must admit they do not control their life. It’s surprising, but many people, discussing karma, think they’ve found a “cheat code” and now control their life. But if there are laws of the Universe, then you are just a cog. What difference does it make what the laws are? Do you even realize that you are a cog? We can endlessly sort things out, reason, understand anything at all, but if a person thinks they control reality, that they know which actions “need” to be done right now — they are deluded.
A person went to see someone and was told that in a past life they were someone important. People love to hear that in a past life they were an emperor’s assistant or a pharaoh’s advisor. Or they think: “If now someone is involved in some ‘serious matter,’ then they have good karma.” Not at all a fact. And do you even know how many lives you’ve lived? And do you know there is a time between death and birth? And that this time is longer than the time between birth and death? It is longer.
When you talk about causes and effects, remember: they exist not only within one incarnation, but also between incarnations. Processes also occur there. A person should ask: what happens there? What is done there? How is it arranged?
If a person lives in a real understanding that there is karma, that there are laws of the Universe, that there is incarnation and a certain time between incarnations — they must understand that not all are equal. Someone has one incarnation, someone has a hundred. Someone’s spiritual being is incomparable in experience to another’s.
Recently, in the morning, when I was leading a meditation, a woman asked: “What experience do you have?” I asked: “What experience are you talking about? Number of years? Number of people? Or the experience of the spiritual being? What do you want to know? Are you interested in my experience in money I earned to have the right to lead meditations? Or are you interested in the experience of traveling through spaces? Or perhaps the experience of how much time I spent in a cave? Or whether I wear a robe? Or my experience of raising children? Which experience do you mean? Or are you interested in the experience of my spiritual being — outside of time and space? What experience do you need?” You want me to listen to the spiritual being? No problem. But are you ready to realize it? Ready to face it? Ready to look?
One of the main things when we talk about cause-and-effect relationships and karma is the question of truth. Is a person ready to face the truth? Imagine: today you learn the whole truth. Everything. What the neighbors think of you, colleagues, people on the internet. Where you lie, where you manipulate, where they manipulate you. What will happen to your children, what their destinies and states will be, how many years you will live and how you will feel each year. All at once. Could you withstand it? Most likely, no — you would just “switch off.” A person cannot withstand such a volume.
A person does not want to know the truth. They block it out with all their might. They may say they want to know, want to see the future — but they don’t. It’s enough to watch a single movie — “What Women Want.” It very simply shows what happens to a person who knows a little more truth than necessary. A little more — and it’s already a collision with reality. In 99% of cases, people do not sense reality. They don’t pay attention to it, they don’t want to see it. They need a neutral construct. If a person is in such a state of perception, are they capable of discerning the laws of causes and effects? No. Under no circumstances.
It’s important to remember: you must absolutely not set yourself the goal of “understanding karma.” It’s impossible. If you were to behold everything, you would no longer be a human. The whole complex is not for human consciousness. You can only begin to look, to try to sort out causes and effects. This is the most important task of a person’s life — to sort out causes and effects. And to sort them out, you need to expand your perception, be in awareness, be capable of hearing real things. But people want to hear real things from a billionaire-addict, from a celebrity, from a blogger with a million followers. It seems to them that the “real truth” will come from there.
But a person has only one path — to learn to hear real things themselves. To develop to such a level that you go beyond the perception of “the world is material, and the spiritual exists within it.” Moreover, many believe there are intermediaries who “connect” us with the spiritual world. That’s laughable. Religion says: “We are those who will connect you to God.” Wait a second. If the world is spiritual, then what do you have to do with it? If I am a spiritual being living in a spiritual world, died — and remained a spiritual being, then why do I need you? Isn’t it my spiritual being that connects me with the spiritual world? If I begin to feel myself completely as a spiritual being — why do I need intermediaries?
— Is every person a spiritual being, without exception?
— Without exception. Moreover, any living being on planet Earth is spiritual, has a spiritual aspect. A certain series of physical, material objects may not have a spiritual component — although that can be argued endlessly, depending on what we mean by “component.” But it’s important to understand: no matter how much a person thinks they live in a material world and that spirituality is only a part of this world; no matter how many concepts they create within material perception — this does not cancel the fact that they already are a spiritual being. Wherever they are, whatever they do, whatever they look at, whatever they think about — they are always a spiritual being. And you don’t have to go far.
If you’re a person who “lives in the material world” and “controls everything,” — change your mood from bad to good. Instantly. Like on a computer — you press a button, and everything changes. Try it. Doesn’t work? People start talking about hormones, medications, complex processes, new terms. They came up with fancy words: “quantum physics” — a new favorite theme. “It’s similar to quantum physics,” they say. I look at the person who says it and think: “You don’t even know the basic physical formulas. What quantum physics?”
In reality, it’s simple: part of the phenomena they can’t explain was packed into a theory so complex that it can cover any misunderstanding. They said: “It’s too complex a theory” — and any process can be justified. They invented countless complicated explanations, packed them into the material world, and now they think they “understand everything.” And the spiritual world looks at this and thinks: “Very interesting.” Bam — tomorrow a hurricane. “Oh, we didn’t know there’d be a hurricane.” Bam — a new virus. “Oh, what’s this virus? We didn’t plan it.” Bam — a new technology erased a piece of land, half a billion people died. “Oh, that wasn’t in our plans.” People can’t write a program that reliably predicts the currency rate, yet they want to “control karma” and “explain everything scientifically.” Then they go to bed and feel anxiety, apathy, madness, and sometimes — euphoria and joy.
Any work with karma is possible only when it doesn’t matter to you whether it’s joy or sorrow. It doesn’t matter. Talking about life expectancy is easy — everyone loves to discuss “longevity.” But as soon as you say: “Tomorrow your child might die,” the person answers: “Don’t jinx it!” What does “jinx it” mean? Or they say: “Thoughts materialize.” What are you even talking about? Is that also “quantum physics”? It’s a trendy word now, covering everything unclear. They came up with beautiful explanations — and live in them.
And now stop. Just stop and ask yourself: are you able to study causes and effects without the desire for personal gain?
💡I want to say right away: I’m by no means against gain. I’m not against someone earning a billion, a trillion dollars. Not against expensive purchases, family happiness, joy, rest, pleasure. But I’m also not against death, losses, illnesses, apathy, stress. The question is not about events, but about how you relate to them. Is it truth for you — or just a convenient fantasy you resort to sometimes?
If it’s a fantasy, then you live in a world where you understand nothing. And what you consider “understanding” — knowing that this is a chair, what wood it is, what the currency rate is, which country, which business is open where — that is 1% of your life. Look at your life. How do you feel? Can you describe exactly how you felt yesterday, all 24 hours? What was happening inside you? What impulses arose? Where did they come from, how did they evolve?
That’s why, when we talk about the laws of the Universe and truth, it’s important to understand relative to which construct we are reasoning. What level of law are we talking about? What level of knowledge?
A good example about children came up. Children are explained things in simple words. And everyone understands: the child partly understands. So an adult must also be able to say: “I also partly understood. I don’t fully understand. I haven’t figured it out.” If you ask a child: “Did you figure it out or not?” — they’ll say: “I don’t care.” And indeed, they don’t care. It doesn’t matter to them whether a business is “good” or “bad,” “big” or “small.” They just live.
But adults constantly organize competitions and arguments. “Wait, but in this religion it’s said differently! And this author said otherwise!” Though they themselves have not truly studied any religion or read the author in depth. It seems to them that if they were born in a particular country, went to church five hundred times, and were baptized — then they “studied.” Or: “Have you read the books of Confucius? And about Buddhism?” Have you read all 400 volumes? Did you really understand the material? Did you sort out the words, the details, the descriptions? Even if you act on book knowledge, are you sure you truly understood it?
It’s strange: a person doesn’t go to church, but as soon as someone dies, they go to light a candle. Why? What’s happening? Why do they do it? Are they sure they do it for the deceased? Or for themselves? In most cases — for themselves. All those tears, candles, prayers are often tied not to the one who left, but to the one who remains. Does a person realize this? When they light a candle, do they understand what exactly they are doing? Do they understand what action they are performing, what effect is created — positive or negative, and for whom: for themselves or for the departed? Or do they do it simply because “that’s customary,” because they are afraid not to? Out of fear.
Or maybe they do it consciously, because they know why. Like someone who understands that the deceased must be buried sufficiently deep — not out of superstition, but because otherwise the body may be disturbed by animals or the elements. They understand the process, they know why they do it?
When people go to “figure out karma,” most often they go out of fear. Any study of the laws of the Universe out of fear, out of pride, ego, manipulation — is already a distortion. Because the knowledge of the laws of the Universe is an endless process. It has no end. And that is the essence.
The laws of the Universe are incomprehensible. And you must accept that calmly. Usually at this point a person says: “Okay, I understand, but I just want to form a construct for myself. Did I get it right?” — “Wait,” I reply, “you already made a mistake by asking that question. You want to translate the infinite into a state of ‘100% understanding.’ And that’s impossible.” That’s the meaning of life — to know, to develop, to move. If you’ve “understood everything” and no longer move — why do you need life? Then jump into death, transition between death and birth. There begins the next stage: working with spiritual hierarchies. They, together with your spiritual being, will decide what to do next — and you’ll move into a new construct. If that’s your purpose, if that’s your karma.
💡But people often reduce karma to an event: “Here it is, a specific event — let’s talk about it, reason about it, draw conclusions.” This is the most difficult aspect of knowledge. And you will never have enough life to describe karma. How can you describe everything? If 24 hours have passed, it takes 24 hours to describe those 24 hours. Of course, you can make a “summary” — but that will not be a description of life, just its outline.
Everyone now wants to live by “summaries.” To describe energies in the form of text. But if everything can be described in code — that’s no longer a human, that’s a computer. A person says: “But I’ll be the one controlling that computer.” Sure, a tiny piece, maybe you will. And at the same time you have a bad mood, stress, inner storms, and you’re going to ask your “program” to fix it.
Ask ChatGPT to answer the question: why does one boy want to kill a kitten and another doesn’t? ChatGPT will say: “Their parents were alcoholics. Or one was beaten.” And if not? If the parents are the same, the school is the same, the teachers are golden — where does the difference come from? From the material world they’ll say — “genetics.” Fine. But they’re from the same parents. — “Well, maybe a different chromosome.” Fifteen years pass — and the one who loved kittens kills a person. “Wait,” I say, “you mentioned genetics. Why did the genes work one way at five and differently at twenty?” The answer will be the same: “Quantum physics.”
— Or psychology, which loves to explain everything after the fact.
— Exactly. And the main question: did he have to commit that act because ahead of him he must live through other, most important events? That’s the point.
I, for example, have a hand contracture — an injury because of which the arm doesn’t straighten. Hundreds of doctors promised to fix it, but it’s impossible. It constantly pulls the whole body, creates tension. I fell in childhood. Question: is this cause and effect? I fell, and that’s why I now have causes and effects? Did I fall in childhood because I had done certain deeds before that? Or did I fall in childhood because certain events must happen now? Maybe I had to fall for my life to unfold a certain way, and not that my life unfolded that way because I fell. Is it not possible that the cause of my fall lies ahead? Of course it is. In many aspects it is. That’s the essence when we talk about karma. And this is the difficult aspect. Is it not possible that the cause of my fall lies ahead? Of course it is. In many cases — exactly so. And that’s the essence when discussing karma. And this is one of the most difficult aspects of understanding.
💡And now let’s move to the most difficult aspect. Apart from a person’s karma, there is the karma of a people, the karma of a country, the karma of a lineage. Now there are a number of countries, including people living in the Russian-speaking space, who are going through very rapid karma — the karma of a country.
Let’s imagine a person, in the next three years, was supposed to have minus 300 in karma. But the karma of the country kicked in — and everyone got minus 300. One had minus 500, now minus 300 — 200 left. Another had minus 600 — now minus 300, 300 left. A third — minus 1000, after the common karmic blow — minus 700. And someone had plus 500 and says: “Why did they take 300 from me? I did nothing bad.” And the answer is: “It’s okay, in the next life you’ll be given plus 300.” There are countless such situations.
It’s important to understand: many events, both negative and positive, occur regardless of your personal causes. They may have no direct relation to you. But there are laws and effects that balance all this. In the world there is a space of freedom and a space of randomness — and this adds a new level of what happens. There are places that strengthen or weaken the living out of karma. There are points where it mixes, paths and roads change. The birth of a child, for example, changes the overall balance. There are also purely random events.
— Do accidents still happen? After all, sacred texts, for example the Bible, say that nothing happens just like that, that not even a hair falls from your head without a cause.
— Here it all depends on which level we look from. There is a layer where there are no random events. There is a layer where there are many of them. There is a level where black and white exist. There is a level where there is neither black nor white at all.
It’s pointless to argue: “My pants are black” — “No, not black.” If you break everything down to molecules, you’ll find many shades, states, forms. Therefore, it’s important to calmly perceive from which space we are observing, what we are talking about, what exactly we are studying.
— And if a person was born, lived only a few days, and died? Does it mean they had to live precisely that period?
— Of course. It’s natural. That was exactly the life of the spiritual being. That’s how they had to live, and the family into which they were born had to live it too. They might have died even before birth — and that’s also a natural option.
From the human point of view, it seems that a year of life is too little, a hundred years — good, twenty — a pity, fifty — normal. But if you look through the lens of incarnations, it doesn’t matter. There is no “a lot,” “a little,” “good” or “bad,” there is no time. It’s simply an event that had to occur.
Imagine a spiritual being: born — lived a day, then a hundred days, then a hundred years, then two days. Do they feel bad because of that? No. On the contrary, from the spirit’s point of view — it’s interesting. It can move like that, change experiences and states. It has no attachment to one family. It learns different families, different worlds, different people. That’s the richness of experience. A modern person would say: “That’s what I want — diversity!” Well — for a spiritual being this is a natural state.
— Do people change between lives or move in clusters together, from karma to karma?
— Serious transformations occur. But there are souls that cannot incarnate in certain places. Peoples and countries create special conditions for different types of souls. For example, once Great Britain imported opium into China so that, in the future, certain souls could not be reborn there. Souls of a certain type will not come into a space where drug addiction or mass killings dominate — that’s not their path, not their tasks.
Therefore, it’s important to understand: if you were born in a particular country, in a particular family, it means that exactly this place and this time are meant for you.
And reflections like “you killed a chicken — you’ll be reborn a rooster” are complete nonsense. When a person asks: “Why do we need karma? Why is everything so complicated?” — they’re speaking from the state of ego. They want everything to be simple and clear, so they could instantly get answers and move without effort. But if you know everything, if you possess full knowledge, you will cease to be a human.
💡When everything is known and everything is in balance, there are no emotions, no reflections, no experiences. There will be no inner states. Everything will be static. And development is possible only through movement, through experience. That is the meaning of human life. To understand this essence, you need to at least slightly realize how humanity evolved. People often underestimate the past. They look at ancient civilizations and say: “They lived in tents, they were primitive.” But six thousand years have passed — and we still don’t understand their inner world, the structure of their soul, spirit, people.
For example, people in Ancient Egypt knew about past lives as plainly as we now know we have eyes. They didn’t remember past lives, but they knew they existed — knew absolutely. They didn’t need proof.
Just as we don’t doubt we are born from a woman. In a hundred and fifty years, perhaps people will doubt: “Are we born from a woman or from a lab?” If a technology of artificial birth appears and it is proven that people have been born that way for 150 years, many will begin to doubt their own origin. But now there’s no doubt — we just know it, no proof needed. That’s how the Egyptians knew about reincarnation. And when you know, and not believe — you make decisions differently.
Today children are taught mathematics; they consider the number of hours with a tutor important. But who is this tutor? What do they carry? What energies do they transmit? Perhaps the child is gifted in something else, and in them destructive states are launched — for example, a tendency to suicide. There are people who have felt such states, and there are those who never did. Try to explain that from the point of view of medicine, science, or quantum physics. Why on a particular day does a person have such a feeling? That is also part of a larger structure.
Therefore, to understand where a person is moving and what lies ahead, you need to deal with their roots — how they developed, what they went through, how their evolution is arranged. If there is the karma of a person, then there is the karma of events, peoples, planets, the Earth itself. Everything has its plan, its cycle, its logic of development. But are you sure you are ready to truly behold and understand it?
— We once discussed how people often think: “Now I’ll do something, quickly work off my karma, and everything will get easier.” But then processes of karmic acceleration turn on — and the person is no longer glad they started it all. For example: someone deliberately said something hurtful to his wife, did harm, knowing he was acting wrongly — and soon got into a car accident. A question arises: is this really a manifestation of karma or just a coincidence, an illusion that he created it himself?
— This is a very important aspect. A person usually does not realize which cause will lead to which effect — neither in time nor in the form of result. Sometimes they do something consciously, knowing it’s evil. This is a conscious desire for evil.
💡Many actions a person commits unconsciously — they’re “packed” somewhere in the person’s constructs, launched and unfold later. But when a person is already in a state of inner awareness — when they perceive themselves as a spiritual being — and still do something bad, that’s a completely different level. They understand they are acting not by the laws of the Universe, and they understand there will be a reckoning. They don’t know in what form, but they know it will follow. And usually such reckoning comes very quickly. Said a bad word — walked out and immediately crashed. But this type of reckoning occurs with awareness. And with awareness there’s no notion of good and bad as such. There is the understanding that you are moving untruly and living not by the laws of the Universe.
Such quick reactions are linked to awareness. The deeper a person realizes what’s happening, the faster processes occur. On the one hand, it’s as if not faster; on the other — many things can happen almost instantly, because they are in a state of awareness. But these instantaneous things can be far more serious and painful.
When they speak about accelerating karma, people often tie it to spiritual practices, retreats, trips. For example, I have a good friend, he studies in a spiritual group. We worked together, and once he went to Altai. He called me and said: “I’ve stepped onto a spiritual path, I live a spiritual life.” I was in Spain then, I remember, walking through the city, we talked on the phone.
I said: — Dima, do you understand where you’re going? Altai is a powerful place. Deep energies work there. You want spiritual events, a big “wow” effect, but do you realize that along with that, a rapid unfolding of karma turns on? Because for realization, unrealized karma must manifest — inherited, personal, family, the karma of the country. To be in harmony with the space, you need to go through all that. You take — you give, you take — you give. In sync. But if you want to go through it quickly, are you ready for the consequences? Imagine that in your experience it’s recorded that to live through everything, you need to go through serious things — loss of loved ones, illnesses, wrecking of plans, successes and failures. You opened a business — lost it. You got rich — lost everything. You became president — they shot you. You lie without legs, receive a Nobel Prize, and a minute later you’re killed. That’s accelerated karma realization. Are you ready for this? He replied: “No.”
There’s another example. We were on a trip to Lake Baikal. There was a woman who kept saying she wanted to realize the “body of light.” She talked about it to everyone for a week, quoted different teachings, explaining that it’s the highest goal. I approached her, and we talked. — May I ask you a couple of questions? — I asked. — Do you really want to realize the body of light? — Yes, she answered.
I said: — Fine. Imagine that right now, in five minutes, you realize it. I snap my fingers — and that’s it. The body of light is realized. Do you know what that means? Your physical body disappears. You no longer live on Earth. You won’t see your son, you won’t meet people. That’s it, you’re leaving this world. Are you ready?
She instantly said: — No.
It was honest; at that level of energy a person cannot lie. She simply couldn’t say “yes.”
I said: — Then you are not ready. And as long as you’re not ready — you won’t be able to realize the body of light. That’s the essence: you’re not ready to die right now.
💡Understanding death is readiness to leave here and now, without fear, without regrets. Everything else is just talk and the ego’s games. Now imagine how many people live in huge egoistic constructs, striving for the realization of the body of light as the highest goal. These are colossal, essentially Luciferian structures, in which millions of people are ready to go to any lengths — as long as they “become enlightened.” They may neglect family, children, real human deeds, but will fanatically practice for the sake of the body of light. These are terrifying measures.
At the same time, by no means should one say that there are no pure things from the standpoint of certain concepts, descriptions, or notions.