Baba says, “Here, you have to conquer your physical organs with the power of yoga. This is called the karmateet stage.“

For as long as I am still in a body and am playing my part through my physical organs on this field of action, I cannot stop performing actions for even a second. However, for half a cycle, I performed karma without being dependent on the limited fruit of that karma. I didn’t perform karma to be appreciated, to become famous, for wealth, to please someone etc. I performed karma because it was the right karma, the right thing to do. This is called being Karmateet: to be beyond the bondage of karma while performing karma. Then, for half a cycle, I performed karma for limited fruit; this is called being tied in the bondage of karma. One is bondage and the other is relationship. I am controlled when I’m in bondage and I am the master in control when I’m in a relationship. When I am controlled by the desire for perishable fruit of karma, then my intellect wanders a lot: “What should I do? Whom should I impress? What if this doesn’t work? What if I don’t win? What if they are better than me?” etc. This, Baba explains, is called bondage of karma which causes the self and others distress.

The Karma should not make the soul, the master, dependent, but as one with rights, I should enable the organs to perform actions. It is the task of the eyes to see but I, the soul, get to control what the eyes see and don’t see. It is the task of the ears to hear, it is the task of the mouth to speak but what to hear and speak, that’s my decision. But if I blindly scroll through social media and allow my eyes to see whatever is there, then that is being in bondage. If I allow my ears to hear the office gossip, whatever anyone says, then that’s being in bondage. What I see and hear influence my feelings, my attitudes, and my actions. Sometimes, I say: “I didn’t want to say that but it just came out. I didn’t want to do that, but it just happened.” This is not a soul who is the master controlling the karma but I am being controlled by the karma. I am being controlled by what I see and hear. “When physical organs attract you, it means you are controlled by your actions; you remain dependent and tied in bondage.”, explains Baba. Sometimes, there is dependency on bodily relationships, on friends or relatives. I look to them as my crutch, as those who are responsible to keep me happy and content. This is bondage.

Karmateet means to be beyond, that is, separate from the bondage of the body, bodily relations, materials, and facilities. Karmateet means to be detached from this. Karmateet means I am the soul that makes an action take place, I am not a mere spectator watching as my physical organs perform actions. When I am in bondage, I will experience waves of sorrow or unhappiness. Although having all attainments, one minute, I experience being the embodiment of attainment, the next minute, I will experience the stage of a lack of attainment. Although full and overflowing, I will feel myself to be empty. I continue to experience, “I need something else”. And where I am constantly wanting something, I cannot have contentment. “It will not be possible for the mind, for the body or for everyone else to remain constantly happy at all times.“, explains Baba. I will continue to be upset with myself or with others due to one thing or another, even against my conscious wish. And so perform actions as one of has a right, as a master, says Baba, not while being under the influence or being dependent.

Even if there is an illness of the body due to the karmic account of past karma or if the sanskars are in conflict with someone else’s, if I am karmateet, then I would not be controlled by the illness or the conflict of sanskars. Rather, I would, as a master, enable that account to be settled. “To be a karma yogi and settle the suffering of karma is the sign of becoming karmateet”, explains Baba. To make a small thing big or make a big thing small depends on my own stage. “Through yoga, with a smile, change the suffering of karma from a crucifix to a thorn and burn it, that is, finish the suffering of karma. It should not take on the form of a disease.“, teaches Baba. To be distressed or to maintain the honor of being a master depends on myself. “What has happened?” or “Whatever happened is good” depends on myself. Situations continue to come but behind the curtain of loss, benefit is hidden. “If you were to be patient for a little while and have a tolerant stage and see everything with introversion, you would see that is hidden“, teaches Baba. Instead if I become afraid, then I get trapped in the bondage of karma: “What happened? How did this happen? Why me? It’s just my bad fortune….” “These waste thoughts are the subtle strings of the bondage of karma and you continue to tie yourself in strings like this.“, He explains. A karmateet soul would say: “Whatever happened is good, I am good, the Father is good and the drama is also good. These thoughts, Baba explains, work like scissors to cut the bondage.

Once the bondages are cut, I become karmateet.