What are karmas?
What is the deepest meaning of the theory of karma? Karma is a method of
autohypnosis. If you repeat an action continuously you become hypnotized by it; then the karma,
the action, becomes the master and you are just a slave. What have you gained through sex? Have
you gained anything or is it just a repetition? But you have repeated it for so long that now if you stop
you feel you are missing something. If you continue you feel nothing is gained. If nothing is gained
by continuing it, then you are not missing anything by stopping it. Then why do you feel something
is missing? It is just the old habit – a samskara, a conditioning, a karma. You have repeated it too
many times and you have become hypnotized by it. Now you have to repeat it, it has become an
obsession, it is compulsive.
A person goes on overeating. He knows it is bad, he suffers because of it, he is ill continuously; but
still, when he sits down to eat he cannot help it. It is compulsive. What is compulsion? Because he
has been doing it so long he has become hypnotized by it. He is drunk.
Mulla Nasruddin came home one night very late, it must have been three in the morning. He
knocked; his wife was very angry, but Mulla said, ”Wait! First give me one minute to explain, then
you can start. I was sitting with a very sick friend.”
His wife said, ”A very likely story – but tell me the name of the friend.”
Mulla Nasruddin thought and thought and thought, and then he said triumphantly, ”He was so sick
he couldn’t tell me!”
The mind, if it is drunk,
may find excuses but all those excuses are false, just like this one: ”The
friend was so sick that he couldn’t tell me.”
For sex you will find excuses,
for smoking you will find excuses,
for your lust for power you will find excuses,
but all excuses are lame.
The real fact is that
you are not ready to recognize that it has become compulsive, that you are under an obsession, you
are under a hypnosis.
This is what a Jesus finds: everyone drunk and fast asleep. You cannot find it because you yourself
are asleep. Unless you are awake you cannot become aware of what is happening all around. The
whole world is moving in a somnambulism. That’s why there is so much misery, so much violence,
so much war. It is unnecessary, but it has to be so because people who are asleep and drunk cannot
be responsible for anything. If somebody came to Jesus to ask what he should do to change, Jesus
would say: You cannot do anything to change unless you become awake. What can you do? What
can a man who is fast asleep do to change his dreams? What can he do?
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