The Ego is a Result of Karmic Patterns - 05.20.10

Student Question: Would it be true to say that Karma is a pattern that’s produced by the ego?

“It’s the result of the Karmic patterns,” reveals Shunyamurti, the director of the Sat Yoga Institute in Costa Rica. “And if we can see and understand the destiny—in time—of those patterns, we will let them go immediately. The problem is we don’t see the effects that the particular patterns are going to have on our life. . . . And when we are able to understand the inevitability of the Karmic consequences of particular, polluted patterns, we will purify them. And that’s why the purification of the soul is so essential. Not only on an individual level, but on the whole level of the projections we have on other beings in the world—because any negative projection we have on anyone or any corporate entity, any kind of entity, those projections create Karmic consequences. So we want to liberate all beings—that’s the act of being a bodhisattva, by being in that state of compassionate love for the highest resolution of Karma.” Recorded on the evening of Thursday, May 20, 2010.