Sometimes, we all experience emotions and outcomes that we didn’t anticipate. When this happens, we often look back to understand the cause. While we may make sense of some experiences, others remain a mystery. The most profound mystery is this: we don’t know why we are born into a specific body, gender, family, or with a particular level of intelligence. Were any of these in our control? No. And many other outcomes are beyond our control as well. Most of these seem predetermined and vedic literature refers to them as karma.

Not really. Life becomes exciting when we understand its deeper purpose. By aligning our actions with this purpose and streamlining our efforts toward it, we can prevent the mismatch between expectations and outcomes. Life can become more peaceful if we choose to walk this path. If we don’t, we’ll continue adding to the weight of our karmic records, which will only drive the outcomes in our lives. This makes life more chaotic, instead of liberating us from it.

Can we access these records and destroy them?

Where are they stored, and who keeps them?Is it a hard disk, google drive, cloud server kind of technology?

It is said that Chithragupth stores the records of our actions in a special and unique ‘database’—the human body itself. Before the body disintegrates, these records are encapsulated into the sukshma sarira, or the micro-body, which the soul always carries with it through every birth. This micro-body has certain storehouses, such as the senses, manas (mind), and buddhi (intellect), where karma is stored. However, access to these storehouses is restricted and is permitted only for God.

Can you share more details on that path so we don’t get trapped in karma?

The path is Yajna! Yajna isn’t only a ritual performed by priests with sacred fire and offerings. Every activity in our daily life can be transformed into a yajna when we submit the outcomes of each activity to the divine—God. When we recognize that it is God who gives us the opportunities to perform these activities, we align ourselves with a higher purpose. This is how we can love our lives and make them productive toward the ultimate cause, by the grace of God. In doing so, our karmic records are naturally destroyed—without making their destruction the goal.

How do I perform this yajna?

Brahma Yajna is the yajna performed as an offering to the supreme power, Bramha—Lord Srimannarayana. Let’s delve deeper into the significance of this yajna and apply that understanding in our daily lives.

By doing so, we need not enter the cycle of srusti-pralaya (creation and dissolution), which God repeats to give us opportunities to transcend karma and enjoy liberation, ultimately experiencing eternal bliss. When one surrenders to the supreme and leads life as a Yajna under the guidance of a guru, one need not worry about the records in the register maintained by Chithragupth.

-From the discourse of HH Chinna Jeeyar Swamiji
-15^th March, ViratNagar, Nepal

A 5-day Brahma Yajna is being performed at the Lakshmi Narayana Temple in ViratNagar under the divine guidance of HH Chinna Jeeyar Swamiji. After six long years, devotees have finally had the blessed opportunity to receive Swamiji. Their hearts overflowed with devotion and joy. People of all ages—young and old, scholars and laypeople—gathered with love for Swamiji, eagerly opening their hearts and minds to receive the divine grace, wise words of well-wishing, and the boundless compassion that Swamiji so generously shares.

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