may ask why the burden of the consequences of acts done in previous births 
cannot be easily brushed away; no, they can be destroyed, as a heap of cotton 
is burnt by a spark of fire. Jnaanaagni dagdha karmaanam - the spark of wisdom 
will destroy the effect of karma, in a trice. 



These consequences are like the cloud of dust that follows a bus, when it runs 
on a fair-weather road; when the bus reaches the gravel road or the metalled 
road, the dust is less, but it is still there. When at last it enters the 
tarred road, there is no dust. The mud track is karma; the metalled road is 
upaasana (worship) ; the tarred dust-free road is jnaana . By human skill and 
effort it is possible to reduce the burden of past karma.


-taken from Swami's Discourse..26th March 1965.


Sai Ram

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