Sa Ra Ta (Freedom, Energy and Sloth)

I've taken the above from the Hindi Gunas, Satva, Raja and Tama

I hope to clarify these three concepts using the abbreviated Hindi words as my version, their use in English (bracketed) is not only cheap and inaccurate but arguably not what any Hindu would agree with.

My main purpose is to use food consumption as not just a major example but to be what I consider the major part of our ritualistic consumption.

It is the ritual that becomes a polarisation on that something is done to have effect thence the notions of cause and effect come to mind, which I consider to be arrant concepts.

As I hope someone may find this a little entertaining and reflect on the ideas I would like clarify that in any practice or experiment it is utterly important to remove the thought of anyone else form the process. For example I present money as being a Tam concept and a very common part of most peoples thinking. It is wrong in terms of understanding these concepts if I were to compare my material wealth to that of another and consider my karma will be different as my Tam is different. Whereas the consideration in what karma I may have is how balanced my Tam is with my Raj.

Consider how many affluent people do charitable works in the belief that they are generating something good. Where does this idea of good come from. maybe form witnessing the poverty and starvation of others. Rich people give more to such causes yet arguably they taken far more than a fair share to begin with and it is doubtful nay impossible they they would give back more than they take.

Each of us can only consider our own assets and whether to offset any bad karma by doing some good.

But here is the crux or is that the crack, neither good nor bad karma should be actively gained. The idea of investing in such polarity undermines the nature of duality which presents itself to us in gender. Gender is a complimentary dualism genders are not polarised. There can be no men or woman's rights just the right to have a gender.

As most people juggle with the material world the destruction is usually thought of as being justified by the benefits, even to a point where people say they have created this or that from some destructive of killing process. To dig for more coal or chop down a tree to keep warm, to build shelters from destroying habitats of other creatures and to level habitats in the production of storable foods.

Clearly this need for good karma is inherent in our minds justifying our bad actions and so we develop meaningless concepts like sustainability and transition as though somehow we can undue the badness by limiting it or recycling the badness. Yes let;s recycle the badness rather than create any more, as if that means there's going to be any less badness.

The Sat view is to be free of karma, but this does not mean to raise to a higher level of conciousness as though height or higher vibrations will help escape this gravity. Ascendancy only enforces the opposite that there is something below, the bad lands. Thus the search for heaven or some, bad-karma free future that somehow was not built of the past. All this will do is double the karma and embedded the notion even deeper in the mind.

Restricting action although not increasing the satvic concept will leave space where neither Raj or Tam can thrive.

Food

A good experiment to test and not to better understanding is to consider food. No matter how rich in comparison to another someone is, proportionally they do not eat that much more food. Relativity is a problem, as anyone who eats anything eats infinitely more food than someone who s starving to deaths. The body, unlike banks can only store a few kilos not billions.

When food is eaten, in any die,t the karma also arrives in how it was produced. Is it a dead animal or vegetable, maybe its milk, honey, nuts or some other seed, maybe its fruit.

Anyone can grade their food, arguably the one consumption they are unlikely to relinquish, by attributing one of the three Gunas to it. Only once the product is destined for personal consumption does the karma begin. There is no use in considering what the supper-markets sell, what Monsanto 'creates' or which zebra the lionesses mind is set upon. All that needs to be considered is what you want. The more you want the more justification will come with it, more cause and effect.

If you would be free, be.