I was hypnotised / regressed to get my past lives. I was many different lives, the one I remember the most was an orphan from India, walking along a very very long river to migrate from a large city to a mountain. No idea where that might really be, but the migration near water and then ending up inside a hollow mountain with thousands of other migrants and then a flash of fire killed everyone inside. I don't know if that was Mount Vesuvius or what, but it was a mass of people inside something like a mountain.
Another is just seeing things out of a window in a pretty rolling hills scene, likely in the UK somewhere, and a staircase where someone fell down the stairs and I was a writer at a desk and there was something where unforgiveness and then forgiveness was the main theme of it with the stair accident.
Yes, you can escape karma. Upanishads is the religion related to Karma. Basically, by detaching from any interest in any action you partake in. Forgive everyone for anything they have done and ask that karma be resolved in all directions of time.
All I remember is the river started near a large city and ended near a major mountain range and it was weeks long mass migration.
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Upanishads. (See below, will describe what Karma is). Only when man is freed from attachment in his course of taking action will he be free from the eternal cycle of birth and death. The Gita (Action) is an elaboration and amplification of the Katho Panis with its stress on universal self and its indestructability. Death is not to be shunned, but an event that is to be understood suggesting there is an escape from the eternal wheel of life and death through right action. The doctrine of retribution - the theory is that those who have the right knowledge and perform their duties are born again after death for immortality, a state of being man aspires to achieve while those who do not have such knowledge, and negelect their duties are reborn, only to die. (Reincarnation). In Upanishads, good and evil actions experience two fold retribution.
1. In the Other world
2. In renewed life on earth - rebirth.
The soul, after journeying to heaven in a radiant form on the burning of the corpse returns immediately thru the three regions to a new existence. The fully realized soul attains moksha liberation, but being only partially realized the soul is subject to birth and death and must work out its destiny until fully eligible to Moksha. Moksha is true immortality and is for the fully liberated, survival in time is only for the bound.
Rebirth doesn't explain the multiplication of human lives. That a new child is only a soul from a previous life, or the balance between numbers of those who died and those who are born. More babies are born every year than the number dead. Theology has to invent the notion that God creates new souls continuously, but why? Unless the whole thing is an illusion in the first place. Rebirth is a discipline by which the soul perfects itself. The soul is given a chance, an opportunity to march toward its goal of perfection thru birth after birth. It isn't explained why the soul is not spared peace and endless births and deaths in Gita which is like a treadmill for the soul. Why give man senses to gratify, and then tell him it is in the disciplining of the senses that salvation lies. This is either a cosmic joke or Godly cruelty. Neither makes sense, unless it is not for man to question. What is Moksha? If after death, his spirit goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his ear into space, his body into the earth, his self into ether, then what becomes of man? Most Indian thinkers agree Moksha is release from birth and death. The individual disintegrates, gives up selfish isolation. As rivers flow into the sea, losing their name, losing their form, a wise man, freed from all form and name, goes into the divine person who is beyond all. The goal of man is not annihilation of self, but fulfillment, the final merging with the Brahman. It consists of a state of rapture adn exctasy, a condition of joy (ananda) where creatures as creature is abolished but becomes one with the creator, or realizes his oneness with him. The indescribable cannot be described. After all our troubles in the sea of life, we don't reach a desert short to starve to death. We find ourselves in a condition we should look upon as the fullest realization of self. Immortality is lifting ones self up to the region of the diety. This indicates togetherness and apartness. Companionship with God. Absolute likeness with God. There is a state of activity, full of freedom and perfection But freedom to do what? Become human again? Why should perfection seek imperfection? FULFILLMENT COMES THRU LIBERATION. Liberation thru detachment. Detachment is prescribed to free us from the after effects of action. Action without detachment has inevitable effects. This is called the Law of Karma. According to the law of Karma, there is nothing uncertain or capricious in the moral world. We reap what we sow. Action and reaction are equal and opposites. This is the same as the 2nd law of dynamics. Every little action, any action has its effect. If death means total annhiliation, then the law of Karma must begin and end in ones own brief lifespan. But if there is a chain of lives and the soul is reborn, whatever we do in teh present life will have its effects will have its natural and inevitable repercussions in a later life. The only way to still the reaction is to reduce the chance of reaction to zero. Is that possible? The Bhagavad Gita says it is possible. We must act in such a way that we donot desire the fruits of our action, says Krishna. Man must by necessity act, and there is nothing that says we cannot act out of fear that it will produce reaction. But that action must be devoid of desire. Between actor and action there should be no attachment. Krishna says 'to action alone has thou a right and never at all to its fruit. Let not the fruits of action be thy motive, neither let there be in thee any attachment to inaction. Nor by renunciation does he attain perfection. The implication is that action and raction are separated by desire for the fruit of the action that causes reaction. If no desire is attached to action, then it stands by itself. It can be expressed in two formulas. MAN AND ACTION AND DESIRE = MAN AND REACTION. OR MAN AND ACTION MINUS DESIRE = MAN AND ACTION. There is no way in which man can live without performing action which is needed for sustaining life. There is no such thing as renunciation since that is an act in itself. The prescribed process to gain freedom liberation Moksha oneness with God however it is defined , is to act so that it does not carry with it the concommitment of reaction. (Don't do anything that will create a Karma that you must come back for).
The Self reveals Himself to the one who longs for the Self.
Not all Hindus know that the root of their religion, as it is practiced today, lies solidly in the Upanishadic thought. For them, as well as for others, here is a primer.  …
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