Karma: A Yogi's Guide to Crafting Your Destiny
by Sadhguru
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Author speaks to live audience about karma and memory
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Explaining karma as it relates to memory, the author gives the audience multiple examples of how memory works and how it can also work to hold us back. He says, for example, that our tongue carries the memory of the food it wants and that when a Canadian eats the food of Northern India, the tongue suffers because it has no memory of that food. He calls the past, or our vast collection of memories, a “cocoon” that we allow to imprison us because it keeps us safe.
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Author speaks with Evan Carmichael via video chat
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May, 2021
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The author explains that the misconception of the word karma comes from old beliefs of Heaven and Hell, but that the word karma literally means “action” and that our actions do have a residual effect on us. He says that the greatest thing about human beings is that we can conduct ourselves consciously. He adds, however, that he saw in the pandemic of 2020, both in his native India and elsewhere, that it’s very difficult for people to “sit still” when needed.
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Author explains, in talking-head format, misconceptions about karma
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Because of the way the word “karma” is misused throughout the world, the author felt that the book was overdue. He shares that karma is not about punishment and reward, as it is commonly misunderstood, and explains that the word karma literally means “action” and action means doing. Therefore, the karma of each of us is about the action of crafting our lives. He urges us to do this work consciously in terms of physical, mental, emotional, and energetic activity.
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Author converses with Deepak Chopra about book’s key purpose
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The author says he wanted to create a book that was purposeful and that would be like the thread of a garland. Nobody wears a garland for the thread, yet without the thread, the garland is nothing. If you read the book a second time, it will be a different book. If you read it 20 years later, it will be a completely different book. Yet the book will be a thread that has run through your life, adorned with the flowers of your choice.
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