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September 2009 
Akashic Records
Posted on Nov 25th, 2008
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Eli
Eli
There is a great curiousity to know about the past lives in many people. They expend great time, effort and money to explore them.
However, this curious probing into past lives is totally unnecessary. Indeed it is a natural protection from reliving past trauma or becoming infatuated more with our past lives than our present life that the inner recesses of the muladhara memory chakra are not easily accessed.
The fact is that as we exist now is nothing but a sum total of all our past lives. In our present moment, our mind and body state is the cumulative result of the entire spectrum of our past lives. No matter how great the intellectual knowing of the two key principles of Reincarnation and Laws of Karma be, it is how we currently live that positively shapes karma and unfolds us spiritually. In metaphysics, karma is the law that states that every mental, emotional and physical act, no matter how insignificant, is projected out into the psychic mind substance and eventually returns to the individual with equal impact. Knowing the laws, we are responsible to resolve blossoming karmas from past lives and create karma that, projected into the future, will advance, not hinder, us.
The Akashic memory in our higher chakras faithfully records the soul's impressions during its series of earthly lives, and in the worlds in-between earthly physical existences.
Ancient yogis, assigned three categories to karma. The first is sanchita, the sum total of past karma yet to be resolved. The second category is prarabdha, that portion of sanchita karma being experienced in the present life. Kriyamana, the third type, is karma you are presently creating. We find a very inspiring verse in Bhagwad Gita which tells us to understand the very nature of Karma as follows:
Karmano hyapi boddhavyam boddhavyam cha vikarmanah
akarmanashcha boddhavyam gahana karmano gatih
Bhagwad Gita 4:17
(The truth about action must be known and the truth about forbidden action must also be known; even so the truth about inaction must be known; for mysterious is the nature of action)
It must be understood that our past negative karma can be altered into a smoother, easier state through through dharma and sadhana. That is the key of karmic wisdom. Live religiously well and you will create positive karma for the future and soften negative karma of the past.
These karmic records are generally referred to by the term Akashic Records. The Akashic Records constitute the only reliable history of the world. They are also referred to as the memory of nature, the true Karmic Records, or the Book of the Lipika.
However, Akashic Records are much more more than mere Karmic Records. These records exist at several levels, the lowest being the Karmic Records which can be partially accessed through training.
To access higher level records, one has to "purify" one's soul by cleansing in "Akaash Ganga" (a cosmic river). Once purified, a cosmic guide would appear, who would then help to access the higher level records. These are in highly encrypted form, and usually they turn into "light energies" which are absorbed by the soul. Subsequent assimilation of this immense information might take several earth-years, and is a slow process.
Akashic Records in Hindu Mythology
According to Hindu Mythology "Chitra Gupta" keeps the Akashic Records.
Chitra guptam mahaa praajnam lekhaneepatra dhaarinam;
Chitra-ratnaambara-dhaararn madhyastham sarvadehinaam.
(The Chitra Guptas, who are endowed with great intelligence and copious memory, keep records and preserves on leaves with pencil, the memory of every act of the souls. Wearing jewels of precious stones, they mediate as umpire between all souls that are embodied.)
The terms chitra and gupta are highly evocative. "Chitra" means pictures, and "gupta" means hidden (coded/encrypte). Together they refer to the picturized and esoteric records of memory. Even though the recording angels (The Chitra Guptas) are symbolized with pencil and leaves for keeping the records of souls, their very name implies that the records are kept in the form of pictures. Not just still photographs, but a living, cinematograpic record.
Accesing and interpreting Akashic Records accurately
Much has been discussed about accessing and interpreting these records. We find references of the seven Astral plane model. Some indicate the akashic records are similar to a Cosmic or collective consciousness. The records have been referred to by different names including the Cosmic Mind, the Universal Mind, the collective unconscious, or the collective subconscious. Others think the Akashic records make clairvoyance and psychic perception possible. Different people, in different times, in different ways, to different degrees have been able to access the Akashic Records located in "Subconscious Mind."
While it IS possible to get "glimpses" using various techniques, a complete understanding and interpretation of the records requires a very high degree of spiritual evolution. Here is what Ancient Hindu Scripture has to say about knowing and understanding Akashic Records:
I quote from Prasña Upanishad - Fourth Question, Verses 6 - 11
When the jiva is overcome by light he sees no dreams; at that time, in this body, arises this happiness. As a bird goes to a tree to roost, even so, O friend, all the following rests in the Supreme Atman:
1. Earth and its subtle counterpart
2. Water and its subtle counterpart
3. Fire and its subtle counterpart
4. Air and its subtle counterpart
5. Akasa and its subtle counterpart
6. The eye and what can be seen
7. The ear and what can be heard
8. The nose and what can be smelt
9. The taste and what can be tasted
10. The skin and what can be touched
11. The organ of speech and what can be spoken
12. The hands and what can be grasped
13. The organ of generation and what can be enjoyed
14. The organ of excretion and what can be excreted
15. The feet and what is their destination
16. The mind (manas) and what can be thought
17. The intellect (buddhi) and what can be comprehended
18. The ego (ahamkara) and the object of egoism
19. The memory (chitta) and its object
20. Knowledge (tejah) and its object
21. Prana and what is to be supported.
He, verily, it is who sees, feels, hears, smells, tastes, thinks and knows. He is the doer, the intelligent self, the purusha. He is established in the Highest, the imperishable Atman.
He who knows that imperishable Being, bright, without shadow, without body, without colour, verily attains the Supreme, the undecaying Purusha, O my good friend, he who knows Atman becomes all-knowing, becomes all. About it there is the following verse:
"He, O friend, who knows that imperishable Being wherein rests the intelligent self, together with the gods, the pranas and the elements, he becomes all-knowing and enters into all."
However, this curious probing into past lives is totally unnecessary. Indeed it is a natural protection from reliving past trauma or becoming infatuated more with our past lives than our present life that the inner recesses of the muladhara memory chakra are not easily accessed.
The fact is that as we exist now is nothing but a sum total of all our past lives. In our present moment, our mind and body state is the cumulative result of the entire spectrum of our past lives. No matter how great the intellectual knowing of the two key principles of Reincarnation and Laws of Karma be, it is how we currently live that positively shapes karma and unfolds us spiritually. In metaphysics, karma is the law that states that every mental, emotional and physical act, no matter how insignificant, is projected out into the psychic mind substance and eventually returns to the individual with equal impact. Knowing the laws, we are responsible to resolve blossoming karmas from past lives and create karma that, projected into the future, will advance, not hinder, us.
The Akashic memory in our higher chakras faithfully records the soul's impressions during its series of earthly lives, and in the worlds in-between earthly physical existences.
Ancient yogis, assigned three categories to karma. The first is sanchita, the sum total of past karma yet to be resolved. The second category is prarabdha, that portion of sanchita karma being experienced in the present life. Kriyamana, the third type, is karma you are presently creating. We find a very inspiring verse in Bhagwad Gita which tells us to understand the very nature of Karma as follows:
Karmano hyapi boddhavyam boddhavyam cha vikarmanah
akarmanashcha boddhavyam gahana karmano gatih
Bhagwad Gita 4:17
(The truth about action must be known and the truth about forbidden action must also be known; even so the truth about inaction must be known; for mysterious is the nature of action)
It must be understood that our past negative karma can be altered into a smoother, easier state through through dharma and sadhana. That is the key of karmic wisdom. Live religiously well and you will create positive karma for the future and soften negative karma of the past.
These karmic records are generally referred to by the term Akashic Records. The Akashic Records constitute the only reliable history of the world. They are also referred to as the memory of nature, the true Karmic Records, or the Book of the Lipika.
However, Akashic Records are much more more than mere Karmic Records. These records exist at several levels, the lowest being the Karmic Records which can be partially accessed through training.
To access higher level records, one has to "purify" one's soul by cleansing in "Akaash Ganga" (a cosmic river). Once purified, a cosmic guide would appear, who would then help to access the higher level records. These are in highly encrypted form, and usually they turn into "light energies" which are absorbed by the soul. Subsequent assimilation of this immense information might take several earth-years, and is a slow process.
Akashic Records in Hindu Mythology
According to Hindu Mythology "Chitra Gupta" keeps the Akashic Records.
Chitra guptam mahaa praajnam lekhaneepatra dhaarinam;
Chitra-ratnaambara-dhaararn madhyastham sarvadehinaam.
(The Chitra Guptas, who are endowed with great intelligence and copious memory, keep records and preserves on leaves with pencil, the memory of every act of the souls. Wearing jewels of precious stones, they mediate as umpire between all souls that are embodied.)
The terms chitra and gupta are highly evocative. "Chitra" means pictures, and "gupta" means hidden (coded/encrypte). Together they refer to the picturized and esoteric records of memory. Even though the recording angels (The Chitra Guptas) are symbolized with pencil and leaves for keeping the records of souls, their very name implies that the records are kept in the form of pictures. Not just still photographs, but a living, cinematograpic record.
Accesing and interpreting Akashic Records accurately
Much has been discussed about accessing and interpreting these records. We find references of the seven Astral plane model. Some indicate the akashic records are similar to a Cosmic or collective consciousness. The records have been referred to by different names including the Cosmic Mind, the Universal Mind, the collective unconscious, or the collective subconscious. Others think the Akashic records make clairvoyance and psychic perception possible. Different people, in different times, in different ways, to different degrees have been able to access the Akashic Records located in "Subconscious Mind."
While it IS possible to get "glimpses" using various techniques, a complete understanding and interpretation of the records requires a very high degree of spiritual evolution. Here is what Ancient Hindu Scripture has to say about knowing and understanding Akashic Records:
I quote from Prasña Upanishad - Fourth Question, Verses 6 - 11
When the jiva is overcome by light he sees no dreams; at that time, in this body, arises this happiness. As a bird goes to a tree to roost, even so, O friend, all the following rests in the Supreme Atman:
1. Earth and its subtle counterpart
2. Water and its subtle counterpart
3. Fire and its subtle counterpart
4. Air and its subtle counterpart
5. Akasa and its subtle counterpart
6. The eye and what can be seen
7. The ear and what can be heard
8. The nose and what can be smelt
9. The taste and what can be tasted
10. The skin and what can be touched
11. The organ of speech and what can be spoken
12. The hands and what can be grasped
13. The organ of generation and what can be enjoyed
14. The organ of excretion and what can be excreted
15. The feet and what is their destination
16. The mind (manas) and what can be thought
17. The intellect (buddhi) and what can be comprehended
18. The ego (ahamkara) and the object of egoism
19. The memory (chitta) and its object
20. Knowledge (tejah) and its object
21. Prana and what is to be supported.
He, verily, it is who sees, feels, hears, smells, tastes, thinks and knows. He is the doer, the intelligent self, the purusha. He is established in the Highest, the imperishable Atman.
He who knows that imperishable Being, bright, without shadow, without body, without colour, verily attains the Supreme, the undecaying Purusha, O my good friend, he who knows Atman becomes all-knowing, becomes all. About it there is the following verse:
"He, O friend, who knows that imperishable Being wherein rests the intelligent self, together with the gods, the pranas and the elements, he becomes all-knowing and enters into all."
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I like this part —
“Indeed it is a natural protection from reliving past trauma”
we are so easily attached to our egos – this suite of cloths we wear called our bodies is but a set of garments
it's a blessing both to be ignorant of past lives and of what the future brings - the present is more than we can handle! thank you for another excellent blog. And I really appreciate your posts on the God Pod, they are working toward the healing needed. Love you!
Hi Eli!
Very interesting blog! Like many Witches I know, I believe in reincarnation ( or more the choice one has when one is crossed over to come back in the form of ones choosing), but I honestly until today, never thought too much about the accumulation of information of the past lives in combination with the one I am living now - and it's effects, or non-effects on my present state of being. I am with Nicole at the moment, busy creating my best possible now for as many possible beings I encounter. That said, it is interesting to contemplate on the subject, and I thank you for the initial boost in that matter.
I resonate with your opening, that it is unnecessary to probe too deep - as I believe that any necessary knowledge comes as time needed, if one is open, either from past experiences in another existence or this one. Again, you gave me something to think about today, as you so often and eloquently do.
Many blessings, my dear friend
Claudia
Eli, this is fascinating. While I believe in immortality, a deep interconnection among each of us and nature, in an ever-expanding loving universe, and that it's all about LOVE…I have never deeply considered past lives. (I'm always listening for God…. :)
Wow. This is amazing. You write that the Akashic Records are similar to a Cosmic or collective consciousness: different names including the Cosmic Mind, the Universal Mind, the collective unconscious, or the collective subconscious. And that others think the Akashic Records make clairvoyance and psychic perception possible. Is this not something like the zero point field of quantum physics: the sweet interconnecting web upon which mystics send their prayers, lightworkers send their intentions?
Eli! You write that not only does the Akashic memory in our higher chakras faithfully record the soul's impressions “during its series of earthly lives,” but also “in the worlds in-between earthly physical existences.” That is so neat! AND, we can access the higher level of Akashic Records (the only reliable history of the world!) by purifying or cleansing our soul in a cosmic river.
Why am I so amazed at finding your blog today? Because I was just, only a few hours ago and by “accident,” absorbed in a fascinating article about ancient civilizations, the Theosophical School of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century (the name Blavatksy jumped out at me, some earlier discussion about Orion…), and how these mystics relied upon a direct experience of the Akashic Records.
I NEVER KNEW any of this.
But now I do.
Seems like accessing information in the higher levels could be highly beneficial. Even just to seek!; for the seeking, in and of itself, has such a sweet prerequisite: spiritual cleansing and evolution. Seems like it could be a worthy thing to do, particularly considering some of the wacky stuff that's been going on in this world. But wait! Wouldn't anything revealed at the higher levels simply be about LOVE? So if we calmly and gently maintain wide-open compassionate loving hearts, we are soooo going in the right direction, yes? (And maybe a cosmic guide will appear! eeeeeee. This could be FUN).
Deep bows
Peace and Oceans of Love
Nightphoenix,Nicole,Claudia, and my dear sister willow …please accept my sincere gratitude for expressing your views on this blog.
Claudia, you are already aware that in advanced Astrology there are systems to access this “accumulated information”
Jeannie, you have hit the nail right on it's head…
…Dear Eli , every time i read your erudite writings , a line from a very familiar and
popular nursery english rhyme of my childhood days pops up in my mind….
..i do not want to disclose it now !!..let my friends on Gaia make a guess and post
it here…let me see…after a few days i will come out with mine…anybody for the
game ?!!
love and hugs
-jagadish
Hey Eli…..another slice of fantabulosa erudition here. You're a font of information which you divest of it's woolly New Age kindergarden thing (I'm thinking of some of the substandard stuff on reincarnation on the mind-body-spirit shopshelves at the moment).
Joyce makes a brief allusion to the Akasic records in the first part of Ulysses.
Lobsang Rampa, that old fraud, devoted a chapter in “You-Forever!” to Akasic access….came hot on the heels of his previous chapter….”How to Astrally Project”…LOL….he was a bit optimistic, methinks.
A question, Eli;….the Vedantists maintain that samskaras reside in the causal body…Buddhists would call this the ' very subtle body'….given that these refer to personality/propensity trace elements grooved in vasanas across the manifold lifespans…. a sutra connecting the beads of our incarnations….are these connected to the Akasic realm at all?…I might speculate that they are local akasic condensations activated once the organism reaches a given stage of maturation.
I might also speculate that these condensations involve further into what Sheldrake refers to as morphogenic fields, governing an organisms telos both ontogenetically and phylogenetically.
Any thoughts, O wonderous knower of Eastern Wisdom?
Jagadish…the first lines that came into my head referred to what Eli is precisely not…..Humpty Dumpty and Little Jack Horner!!..LOL…I'll play your game over the next couple of days.
Jon xx
Hey Jon, thanks a lot for your comments, and I must smile at your “O wonderous knower of Eastern Wisdom”… wish I really could meet even 5% of your expectation.
Here is a veiled reference to Akashic Records in Bhagwad Gita. If we read between the lines, we notice that the message is really loaded:
na tvevaham jatu nasam na tvam neme janadhipah
na chaiva na bhavishamah sarve vayamatah param Bhagwad Gita 2:12
In fact there was never a time when I or you or these kings were non-existent. Nor is it a fact that we shall cease to be in future.
Coming to your question, as I have discussed in the blog, the Sanchita Karma and the Prarabdha are part of the Akashic (the lowest level). However, there is a deep mysteriously mystic link between these karmas and the samskaras leading to rebirth.
I am reminded of a story of a saintly soul who was in such an advanced stage of evolution (moksha) that he would not be reborn in human form any more. He decided to leave his mortal body, and lay down under a fruit tree. Just as his “prana” was about to leave his body, his eyes spotted a beautiful fruit on the tree and he thought “Oh! How I wish to eat that fruit”. But it was too late, and his prana left his body. The story says that he subsequently was born again as a worm to taste the fruit before he could finally attain Moksha.
Jagdish, did you hint at “Blah Blah Black sheep..” by any chance ( taking a bit of liberty with the rhymes :) )… LOL
Very interesting blog.Made me impressed.I think everyone have visited here had enjoy.
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It is a very good article, I wish to add a few more thoughts to it. Akaash Ganga is a river of Lights and stars , and the Records are kept in language of light similar to ancient language of sanskrit.
Thank you, Eli, you shared some wonderful knowledge. I am rather new to Gaia, and your comments make me understand the value of this experience. I will cherish your insights.
And a comment: while I do agree with focusing on the now, which is all we really need to do, I do enjoy learning about past lives and seeing the connection to what we are currently experiencing. I find the information from some of my teachers, such as astrologers and psychics, has enriched my life. Okay, so I guess as a constant student, I also just enjoy the intellectual pursuit.
we are as children touching the fire to see if it's hot
Thank you Cheryl for your warm footprints. Fire is hot, yes, and test it carefully so that you don't get a third degree burn …
Thank you for this gift, Eli.:
Deep bows.
Eli,
It's taken me awhile to have the time to do this justice. I thought it very informative and straight-forward. Of course, we must be a sum total and then, I think there are indications in other forms of inquiry, that some of this personal record may be somehow encoded in cellular “memory”. I suppose it could be that the spirit's energy manipulates it somehow.
It is unfortunate that too many get too caught up in what we “might” have been in some other life and you make that point well. To do so, robs us of the beauty of living what we have now and really, from this current state point of view, is all we have. I like the thought of many layers or depths to being, while staying present.
I would agree, metaphysically, it all goes out and comes back, therefore, if some reactive thing seems encoded, we would be wise to elevate our response and thereby vibrationally shift that bit of past karma. Of course, it is equally true, much important too as to what will come next.
Thanks for getting me over here,
Deb
Meenakshi, thank you for your footprints.
Deb, I am glad you could find time to visit. I know how busy your time schedule is, and I have been waiting patiently to know your views, which resonate so much with me. Thank you very much.