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Book Summary

📘 Book Description: “Karma: Fate or Choice?”
How to Release the Past and Create a New Future

Is your life shaped by past actions, or can you change your path at any moment?
“Karma: Fate or Choice?” is a deep, transformative journey into the hidden realms of energy, awareness, and decision-making. This book is not just theoretical — it’s a powerful tool for healing, understanding, and reclaiming your power.

Each chapter offers stories, insights, and practical techniques to understand karma, clear its effects, and transform your destiny — all without superstition.

🔹 Chapter 1: What Is Karma and Why Does It Matter?
Learn the core concept of karma as a learning cycle — not punishment.

🔹 Chapter 2: Is Everything Predetermined?
Understand destiny, free will, and how your awareness changes your path.

🔹 Chapter 3: How Negative Karma Is Created
Explore the psychological and energetic roots of karmic patterns.

🔹 Chapter 4: From Past Lives to Present Freedom
Why we repeat old stories and how to stop living in unconscious loops.

🔹 Chapter 5: The Role of Emotions, Intentions, and Choices in Destiny
Discover how your emotional and mental patterns shape your karmic outcomes.

🔹 Chapter 6: Is Everything My Fault or Just Karma?
Understand the difference between self-responsibility and self-blame.

🔹 Chapter 7: Can Karma Be Cleansed? Yes — Here’s How
The core of the book. Step-by-step healing tools: forgiveness, prayer, meditation, service, and intention.

🔹 Chapter 8: You Have the Power to Change Your Destiny
You are not a victim. This chapter empowers you to rewrite your story.

🔹 Bonus Chapter 9: Daily Karma Cleansing Exercises
Simple affirmations and practices to shift your energy and clear karmic residue.

🔹 Final Conclusion
From understanding to action, this book helps you move from victimhood to conscious creation.


❓Frequently Asked Questions Answered in This Book:

  • Is karma real or just a spiritual myth?
  • Can I erase karma through prayer or meditation?
  • Are bad things happening because of my past karma?
  • How do I know if I’m paying off karmic debt?
  • How can I break free from repetitive life patterns?
  • What’s the difference between blame and responsibility?
  • Can I heal my family’s karma?
  • Why do some people seem luckier than others?
  • What role do love and forgiveness play in karma?
  • Can I truly rewrite my destiny?

Author: Vahid Zekavati

Copyright: NLP Radio

Introduction:

Have you ever asked yourself why, despite all your honest efforts, certain pains in your life never truly go away? Why do the same kinds of heartbreaks, failures, and inner battles keep repeating—with different faces, yet with the same familiar ache? This book takes you on a journey into the often unseen: the karmic roots of your suffering.

In these pages, we do not offer quick-fix slogans or shallow promises. Instead, through a gentle yet revealing voice, we trace the hidden knots that live in your patterns, your wounds, your fears, and your forgotten choices. This book is for those brave enough to look within, to stop blaming the outside world, and to ask: “How have I contributed to my own pain?”

If something inside you is whispering that it is time to cleanse, to break cycles, and to free yourself from the unseen burdens you carry—then this book was written for you. Together, step by step, we will move from pain to awareness, and from awareness to freedom.

📘 Chapter One: Why Do My Problems Never End?

Sometimes you feel like everything is finally going to get better, but suddenly, life wounds you again from an unexpected place. You’re stuck in a painful loop, as if life only knows how to tell one story: a story of suffering.
You ask yourself, what did I do wrong? What did I miss? But the answers remain blurry, and the wounds reopen. You’re not alone in this eternal question: why do my problems never end?
Here is where we must pause. Before blaming others, before blaming ourselves, we must look deep within — to the place where the pain truly begins.

Have you ever considered that you might be playing a role in recreating your problems? Not out of weakness, but out of unconscious wounds left unhealed. Many of us confuse repeated pain with destiny.
We experience pain and think life is against us, unaware that our subconscious might be choosing the same pain over and over. Because it’s familiar. Because in the arms of suffering, we feel strangely at home.
Even when wounded, the mind clings to the familiar. What repeats is often what the mind is used to — even if it’s harmful. This is where we must become honest with ourselves.

Did I choose suffering? A terrifying question — but necessary. Because unless you accept your part in it, you cannot change it. The moment you see yourself as a victim, you give away your power.
We must find the courage to admit that some of our pain is the echo of a wound we’ve never acknowledged. Until a wound is seen, it cannot be healed. Pain will repeat in many forms until it is.
Our problems may be the language of our wounds crying out: “I am still here.” Until you listen, life will shout it for you.

You are not alone. We are generations who never learned to listen to ourselves. We were taught to hustle, to move, to chase — but not to pause. And life will not calm down until you do.
Problems are often invitations to look deeper inside. To pause and see what’s decaying. What pain is rising and wants to be seen.
We see problems as enemies, but they are messengers. Messengers of a wounded psyche, a tired soul, a forgotten inner child.

Have you spoken to your pain? Not with complaints, but with curiosity and honesty. Maybe it has something to say. Maybe it’s been screaming in silence for years.
If your problems never end, maybe it’s because you’ve never tried to hear their message. You just wanted to escape them, not understand them. And the universe, until the lesson is learned, will keep repeating.
Most of our problems are not external, nor bad luck — they are mirrors. Mirrors of the unseen parts and the unresolved experiences.

When you deny your inner wounds, you unknowingly invite them into your life story. The mind reconstructs what’s suppressed through new roles, new people, new situations.
This is the infamous loop: why do I always attract the wrong people? Why do I always hit a dead end? Because your inner story is unfinished. Because you haven’t been heard.
The first step is to see — without judgment, without rushing to fix. See your problems as doorways, not barriers to happiness.

Maybe not everything needs to be fixed. Maybe you just need to rethink the things you misunderstood inside. Maybe you still don’t believe in yourself. Maybe you still think you don’t deserve peace.
Sometimes, we unconsciously punish ourselves, because we learned as children that pain is part of being loved. So we make suffering a part of our identity.
Freedom begins when you see the truth — not when everything is solved. Freedom starts inside, by accepting your part in the cycle and being ready to end it.

If you’ve reached the point where you want to break the cycle, I congratulate you. This is the moment of awakening. The moment where, instead of running, you face the truth within.
Your problems haven’t ended because you haven’t fully met yourself. And you are more valuable, more profound than every crisis you’ve endured.
This chapter was an invitation to look again. To understand that maybe your life’s problems have loved you all along. They were calling your name. Do you hear it now?

Chapter Two

What Creates Karmic Knots?

Where did it begin? Which small decision? Which act of ignorance? No one thinks a lie could lead to years of loneliness. But sometimes it does.

Karma is like a suitcase we keep adding things to daily, unaware that one day we’ll carry it to a distant place. Karma remembers—long after we’ve forgotten.

People believe if no one saw, then nothing happened. But the universe is awake. Existence is precise. Energies don’t disappear. What you plant not only grows—it climbs your walls.

Every betrayal, every broken promise, every emotional manipulation, every silence when you should’ve spoken, every time you hurt because you could—these are karmic seeds.

If you toyed with someone’s heart, it will come back. If you didn’t value love, love won’t value you. If you stole someone’s livelihood, life will bite back. Nothing goes unpaid.

Karma isn’t just in major actions. It lies in quick judgments, small humiliations, withheld kindness, or ignoring someone’s pain beside you.

The universe doesn’t just listen to your intentions—it reacts to your impact. Maybe you meant well, but did your action hurt? Karma doesn’t care about “why”—only about “what.”

If you left someone without reason, got bored and moved on, offered false hope—karma began. Every soul you wound sends ripples into the cosmos.

You might not know why you feel lonely, broke, numb, or drained. But the seeds you sowed sprout silently. And you harvest, even if you forgot.

A buried guilt, old and muffled, can signal karmic knots. Something feels stuck. Like something is lodged in your inner wall. You haven’t forgiven yourself.

But awakening starts here: look back. Not to punish yourself—but to see clearly. What you’ve built is what you’re living now. And only through seeing can you transform it.

Believe that most harm you’ve caused was through unawareness. But ignorance doesn’t cancel karma—it delays it. You will pay, yes. But you can lessen the weight by waking up.

You are not alone. We’ve all hurt. We’ve all erred. What matters now is: stop lying. Stop ignoring. Stop playing the victim. Karma is not kind to victims.

If you’ve broken hearts, destroyed trust, made someone depend on you then walked away—these are the knots you must untie, not deny.

Karmic knots aren’t just tied to cruelty—they’re tied to daily neglect, habitual unkindness, the silent dismissal of others’ needs.

Each time you could’ve helped and didn’t, each time you were silent with truth, each time you looked away—another thread added to the knot. Now it’s time to unravel.

The universe doesn’t want perfection. It wants presence. When you realize you’ve erred, sit with it, and say: it was me. I was wrong.

That sentence is magic: I was wrong. It’s the beginning of freedom. Once you accept your role in your own karma, the knots start to release. Truth brings liberation.

In the next chapter, I’ll show you how to start untying these knots—today. But for now, your only task is to look. Review. Honestly. Bravely. Kindly.

Chapter Three: Your Life Is No Accident, It’s an Answer

You wake up one morning and everything feels messy. People have left, tasks are unfinished, and your heart screams silently. This isn’t a coincidence. Life is responding to you, in the exact language you taught it.

Some pains repeat so often that we become used to them. But repetition is a sign. There’s something you haven’t understood, accepted, or made up for. A knot inside remains unresolved, and now it’s returning louder.

You must dare to look behind the scenes of your life. Ask yourself: What is this pain trying to teach me? Why has this irritating person reappeared in my life? Am I still repeating the same old mistake?

Karma is not just punishment. Karma is the memory of the soul—of unfinished actions, hearts you’ve broken, and promises never made. Life doesn’t forget; it’s simply patient.

For example, if someone constantly faces betrayal in relationships, maybe they once betrayed someone. If they always struggle with poverty, perhaps they misused wealth or ignored the poor.

Recognizing recurring patterns is one of the most important ways to uncover karma. Life is like a strict teacher. If you don’t learn a lesson, it keeps repeating it—not out of cruelty, but love.

Even a random street encounter, an accident, or an illness can be a response to a vibration you’ve carried for a long time. Something unseen but energetically alive around you.

Many say: “But I did nothing wrong!” But karma isn’t just about external actions. Intentions, jealousy, judgments, curses, and toxic wishes can all generate karmic energy.

The universe doesn’t judge by appearance—it responds to frequency. If you harbor hidden anger, even behind a smile, karma responds to that anger. Because the universe listens to vibrations, not words.

When something repeats in your life too often, there’s a message inside. Something you haven’t seen, said, or forgiven. And it will remain until you do.

Karma is not a punishment law; it’s a law of growth. Life, in all its hardships, wants to wake you up—not to suffer, but to free you, to remind you of the power you’ve ignored.

Can the path be changed? Yes. But not through complaint—through awareness. Not by escape—but by seeing and accepting. You must understand why you’re experiencing something, and what part of you created it.

Karma is the fairest law of all. You can’t escape it, but you can embrace it. And that’s when miracles begin—because the universe bows to honesty.

You’re not a victim. You’re the unconscious creator of your life. That’s a bitter truth—but a liberating one. If you created it, you can also be your savior. That is responsibility, and also freedom.

Don’t judge yourself. Just look—honestly. That gaze begins your healing. You didn’t come here to suffer. You came to understand, to grow, and to return to your inner truth.

Life is not your enemy. It only repeats until you wake up. But once you say, “I am responsible,” everything begins to shift. That sentence unlocks every karmic lock.

And know this: no karma is stronger than love. Whenever you fall into repetition, find your way back to love—love for yourself, for others, and for the hidden truth. Then the knots begin to unravel.

Chapter Four:

Types of Karma: The Cycles We Unknowingly Repeat

Have you ever felt stuck in an endless loop? Same people, same events, same wounds, only dressed in new clothes? This is where you must consider the many types of karma—hidden forces that replace freedom with repetition.

Karma isn’t only about bad things. Some knots are due to unfinished goodness—kindness offered out of fear, or sacrifices made with a sense of martyrdom. Every unresolved emotion becomes a loop that sustains karma.

Personal karma is the most common form—the direct result of our choices, beliefs, and behaviors. But lesser known is family karma—the pain your grandmother endured may still ache in your body, demanding resolution.

Collective karma is more brutal. We are part of the history of a land that has at times been oppressor and at times oppressed. Our souls may unknowingly carry burdens from these ancestral memories.

Another form is mental karma—repeating beliefs that keep you small. If you constantly think you’re unworthy or that life must be hard, that’s a mental knot that recreates itself in your experiences.

Romantic karma may be the most painful. Often we fall for those who reopen old wounds, not heal them. Love becomes a mirror reflecting unfinished pasts, hoping we’ll see and liberate ourselves.

Financial karma is widespread too—chronic poverty, fear of money, guilt around wealth, or even unblessed abundance. These may all indicate karmic knots around the energy of money.

Sexual karma exists as well—whether through abuse, suppression, or addiction. Wherever life energy has been repressed or distorted, karmic imprints remain.

Some karmas appear in dreams or visions. Repeating dreams, familiar yet unknown faces, or déjà vu may be keys to unlock forgotten ties that still remember us.

There is karma of restless souls. If someone died with deep pain and we’re somehow linked, we may feel part of their suffering, without knowing why.

Then there’s soul-contract karma. Sometimes before birth, we agree to meet certain souls on Earth to learn lessons. That’s why some people, no matter how much they hurt us, can’t be avoided—until the lesson is complete.

Not all karma is bad. A feeling of salvation through a stranger, a miraculous coincidence, or sudden connection may be signs of positive karma, flowing through grace and generosity.

Sometimes karma repeats simply because we haven’t forgiven—not others, but ourselves. Until we stop punishing ourselves for past mistakes, life will echo that punishment through others.

Once you identify a karmic knot, the first step to freeing it is taken. Awareness is the light that renders old darkness powerless. You’re no longer defenseless, if you can see where the cycle began.

No cycle continues forever—unless we ignore it. To see, to accept, and to take responsibility—these are the three keys to ending karma.

Inside every knot lies a hidden choice. You can remain a victim, or awaken. The difference is whether you see yourself as the creator of your experiences or a pawn of fate.

In this chapter, we only mapped out the knots. In the next ones, we’ll show you how to untie them, restore energy, and reconcile with life.

Because the truth is—even the most tangled karma has a key. And if you’re as brave as the pain you’ve endured, you deserve to be free.

And if you still doubt that karma is real, just ask yourself: why does this pain feel so familiar?

Chapter Five: When You Break a Heart, the Universe Breaks Yours

We humans often get so consumed with our own worries that we forget others have hearts too. Hearts that might break with a word, a glance, or even our silence. That’s when karma makes a mark in its book.

You might not remember when you hurt someone, but the universe does. Life has a deep memory that never forgets. Every tear you ignored will one day knock on your door, uninvited.

Most of our present suffering stems from our past carelessness. Not as punishment, but as teaching. Karma is a kind teacher, trying to help us live with more compassion, awareness, and responsibility.

When you break someone’s heart, you shake the universe. That shake will return to you. It may look different, but it will feel the same. This is the unwritten law of existence.

Some think that an apology ends everything. But karma waits for real change. It waits for you to truly understand your wrong and never repeat it again.

You cannot erase everything, but you can shift its energy. When you pray for someone you hurt, or do good in their name, you soften the path of karma. That is the way to liberation.

Emotional karma is the hardest knot to untangle. It’s tied to feelings, to wounded hearts, to painful memories. These knots are only released through love, compassion, and genuine repentance—not by forgetting or denying.

If you can’t go back and fix the past, at least save the future. Don’t repeat the same mistake. Act differently when similar moments arrive. That’s awakening. That’s karma transformed.

Ask yourself: Who did I ignore today? Who did I belittle? What did I say that might stay with someone forever? If you dare to see the answers, you’ve already begun to heal.

No one escapes karma, even with no bad intentions. Why? Because ignorance can also be a form of harm. A tired word may crush someone’s spirit. So, always be mindful.

Karma isn’t just about big actions. Sometimes a delayed reply, an arrogant silence, or evading a small duty can leave a deep knot in the soul.

You’re not only responsible for your actions, but for their impact. Even if you’re unaware. Even if you deny it. The universe gives you chances to amend them—if you have the courage.

Forgiving others may not cleanse their karma, but it can free yours. You become lighter—not because they deserve forgiveness, but because you no longer wish to live with the poison of resentment.

The silence you kept when you should’ve spoken, the help you withheld, the right you didn’t stand for—all are recorded in the memory of the cosmos. Karma misses no detail.

Should you be afraid? No. You should be aware. Karma is not a tool of fear but a chance for rebuilding, for healing. Every mistake can be a bridge to a better life—if you take responsibility.

Responsibility means acknowledging that what happened came through you, but doesn’t have to end with you. You choose whether to break the cycle or continue it. And that’s a power few realize.

The hearts you hurt, the wounds you left—they’re waiting for you to return with an open heart. Not for payback, but for your own release. You’re not imprisoned by your past, but the key is in your hands.

If you hurt someone, find them. If you can’t, pray for them. Do good in their name. Don’t let karma lay stones on your path. Transform them into green, glowing steps of growth.

Karma is not revenge. It is not blind justice. Karma is a mirror. What you give to the world returns to you. So give beauty, kindness, and presence, and the world will reflect peace back to you.

Ultimately, the more love you give, the more compassion you hold, the gentler karma becomes. The world becomes a better place. And you become someone who no longer needs knots—because you live in awareness.

Chapter Five

The Role of Religion, Past Lives, and the Subconscious in Karma

Have I committed a sin I’m still paying for? Or perhaps these pains are hidden inheritances from souls that once lived? When an innocent child is born sick, when someone walks a path full of thorns from day one, my mind floods with unanswered questions. Is everything limited to this one life? Or is there another footprint involved?

Religions each, in their own language, speak of cosmic justice. In Islam, the concept of jaza’—that every action has a reward or punishment—closely mirrors karma. But there are also differences. Islam believes in one life, with judgment in the hereafter. In contrast, Eastern traditions see karma as unfolding right now, in countless cycles of life and death.

Christianity also echoes karma in the saying, “you reap what you sow.” But it leans more on grace and salvation through faith, rather than the exact repayment of deeds. In Buddhism, karma is neither reward nor punishment, but the natural result of every thought and action—no divine judge, no ledger, just law.

But for me, what’s more essential than theology is this: karma can be found in our own subconscious. A mind filled with anger or bitterness for years will eventually manifest that burden—through illness, isolation, or broken relationships. Sometimes an accident, a physical pain, or emotional suffering is an echo of a wound we’ve forgotten, but our body remembers.

Modern psychology agrees: many of our choices, fears, and patterns are shaped by memories we aren’t even aware of. Our subconscious holds a vast archive of feelings and events we never had the chance to fully process. Could this be the true mechanism of karma?

Sometimes even dreams reveal abstract images of trauma from a past life. A woman who fears water and dreams of drowning later discovers she witnessed her father’s death by drowning as a child. This personal karma lay buried in her unconscious.

Others speak of something beyond this life: strange longings for unfamiliar places, or aching nostalgia for cultures or people they’ve never encountered. Could these be remnants of spiritual memories? Traces left behind from a life in the past?

Though I personally don’t believe in reincarnation, I can’t deny that some people are born with a heavy weight in their soul. As if they’ve already suffered before being born. So perhaps karma isn’t always from our own actions—it may be inherited, from parents, ancestors, or forgotten generations.

In many Eastern healing traditions, when someone faces recurring problems, the shaman or healer searches not just this life, but the unseen layers of soul memory. Using techniques like conscious breathing, womb regression, or ancestral cleansing, they try to release knots that can’t be explained logically, but are felt intuitively.

Our karma isn’t just shaped by what we do, but also by what we think, judge, and suppress. When these accumulate, our soul becomes too heavy to move forward. The repetition of pain isn’t just the repetition of life—it’s the echo of our silence.

So if religion brings you peace, embrace it. If the concept of soul memory resonates with you, explore it. And if you want to lighten your karma, start with your subconscious. Every invisible wound creates a visible karma.

In the end, karma isn’t punishment—it’s a chance for reconciliation. With yourself, your past, and what you don’t yet understand but lives inside you. The only path to freedom is knowing it—not denying it.

Chapter Six: How to Identify Karmic Knots?

Karmic knots aren’t always visible to the eye. They show up in silent behaviors, repeated pain, and traps we keep falling into over and over. We think we’re unlucky, but perhaps we’re trapped in something unseen.

When a romantic relationship always ends in the same failure and a pattern of rejection repeats, it’s time to pause. The problem may not be external—it might be within us. A wound in the soul may still be unhealed.

Karmic knots often appear as addictions, obsessions, or irrational fears. For example, someone afraid to express feelings may have been punished for it long ago. This memory might come from childhood—or even a past generation.

These knots are like ropes around the soul, and they won’t loosen until they’re seen. Recognizing them requires deep honesty. Honesty born in silence and judgment-free awareness.

Silence is the first gateway to karmic awareness. In the noise of the mind and the chaos of life, these knots remain hidden. But in stillness, they begin to whisper. They speak of old wounds buried in our soul.

To recognize karma, we must know the cycles. The loops that keep bringing us back to the same point of failure. Why do we keep revisiting pain? Why do we repeat the same mistakes with different people?

The key question is: what pattern has repeated in my life? What experience keeps breaking me? Recognizing patterns is the doorway to karma’s hidden world. A place where the soul repeats itself to learn something.

If you’ve returned to a toxic relationship, or always quit jobs in anxiety, these aren’t just coincidences. They carry messages—messages from a wounded place inside you, a place you’ve ignored.

Ask yourself: what do I keep running from? What kinds of people do I repeatedly attract? What pain keeps resurfacing? These questions are lanterns guiding you through hidden knots.

Karmic recognition requires non-judgment. If you blame yourself for past mistakes, you can’t see that those mistakes were just lessons. No pain is meaningless.

A simple exercise: sit in silence for ten minutes a day and recall your most important relationships. Don’t analyze—just observe. What emotions surface in your body? Shame, anger, fear, or longing?

Our bodies hold memory. When a thought brings a physical reaction, there’s a knot. Maybe in the throat, chest, or belly. These are signs to take seriously. Knots have a home in the body too.

You can start writing down your repeating patterns. Bring them to paper. Observe them. See how they relate. Does fear of abandonment always come with anger? Or need for validation with self-denial?

Every karmic cycle contains a “wounded self.” Find it. Talk to it. Ask why it’s still afraid. Maybe there’s something you haven’t seen yet. Maybe the time for reconciliation hasn’t come.

Forgiveness is one of the most powerful tools to untie knots. Forgiving yourself, your parents, your partners—even fate. This doesn’t mean condoning harm, but freeing yourself from the cycle of hate.

Karmic knots begin to loosen through acceptance. Accepting that we’re still incomplete. That we’ve made mistakes, and that’s okay. Whoever befriends their darkness sees light sooner.

Meditation, self-reflection, and journaling are three main paths to discovering karmic knots. But none work if we flee from truth. Truth is always liberating—even when it hurts at first.

Sometimes knots are inherited from family or ancestors. This is called “family karma.” If all the women in your family fear love, perhaps you’re meant to break the chain—with awareness and a new choice.

The courage to see the past is the beginning of healing. When you accept that karma is a hidden map in your soul, you stop running. You read it. Interpret it. And eventually, change it.

Identifying karmic knots is an inner journey, but not a lonely one. Sometimes you need a counselor, therapist, or conscious companion. Another’s eye can reveal what you couldn’t see yourself.

Karma is not an enemy. It’s a teacher. Every knot is a chance to grow in awareness. When you smile at a knot, it means you’re ready to untie it. That moment is the start of your liberation.

Chapter Seven

Can Karma Be Cleansed? Yes, and This Is How…

Sometimes we think the past is a chain forever locked to our ankles. But no chain is sacred, and no destiny is eternally sealed. If pain was created, light too can end it.

Karma is not merely mechanical reaction; it’s a call to awaken. When we realize suffering is a teacher—not a punishment—the path transforms. The key question isn’t why this happened to me, but what I will now do with it.

Cleansing karma doesn’t start with denial—it begins with acceptance. We must dare to see the roots, even if they stem from generations before. Collective, familial, romantic, and even national karmas flow through us.

The first step is observation—seeing repeating patterns in relationships, career, health, and emotions. Every repetition signals a knot—a voice left unheard. Karma is the message we failed to listen to.

The second step is questioning: What have I suppressed? Whom have I not forgiven? What am I constantly attracting? True questions unlock the locks. The answers come in the silence afterward.

Third step: forgiveness. Not just forgiving others, but ourselves. When we forgive ourselves for past mistakes, the karmic chain loosens. Forgiveness replaces repetition with awareness.

Fourth is atonement. If we’ve done harm, even sincere intention to make amends can be transformative. The world is kinder than we think. Every good deed is water on past fire.

Fifth is a new decision—one born of awareness, not reaction. When we choose with love, a new path opens in the soul. Even if the past was dark, a bright future is born.

Sixth is conscious prayer—not from fear or desperation, but clarity. A prayer that says: “I accept, I learn, I release.” This prayer raises the soul’s vibration.

Seventh is meditation—entering inner silence, where karmas reveal themselves. In silence, the mind dissolves stories, and the soul hears the eternal message.

Eighth is service. Selfless service to others is a way out of self-centered cycles. When we soothe others’ pain, ours begins to heal. That’s the great secret of the universe.

Ninth is visualization. Visualizing a future where knots are untied and we are free. This rewires the subconscious and sets life energy in motion.

Tenth is taking responsibility—not blaming ourselves, but knowing we can change. Karma is as flexible as it is deep. Awareness is the fertile soil where new seeds grow.

Eleventh is inner dialogue. Shifting from “Why did this happen to me?” to “Why was I given this opportunity?” turns the mind from victim to creator. That inner voice shapes the future.

Twelfth is listening to signs. The world speaks to us—through patterns, people, pain, even dreams. Every sign is a puzzle piece. With open eyes, the path becomes clearer.

Thirteenth is accepting cycles. Sometimes we must feel pain fully to release it. Avoiding pain delays karma. Being present with it allows love to transform it.

Fourteenth is writing. When we write our life story, we rewrite it. Writing is karmic work. Even a letter to yourself can heal a memory.

Fifteenth is uplifted intention—not only for personal gain but for collective good. Every decision from pure intention creates new karma—bright karma.

Sixteenth is healing across generations. Sometimes we act so future generations won’t repeat our pain. In doing so, we become the bridge between past and future. Karma ends, thanks to us.

Seventeenth is embracing anonymity. Maybe no one will know the healing we’ve done. But the universe does. That’s enough. Live not to be understood—but to be free.

Eighteenth is befriending time. Karma takes time, and we must remain kind. If it wasn’t created in a day, it won’t be undone in ten. Patience is part of the path.

Nineteenth is remembering our worth. We are not sin—we are light children lost in shadow. Cleansing karma is remembering: I am worthy, because I am true.

Twentieth is love. Love ends every karma—not romantic love, but liberating love. The love that sees all, accepts all, and still embraces all.

Chapter Eight:
You Have the Power to Change Your Destiny

Sometimes we get so caught up in memories, regrets, and wounds of the past that we forget—the future is still unwritten. This chapter is a call to awakening. A reminder that the power has always been within us, buried under fear, routine, and disbelief.

Human beings are the only ones capable of choosing not to remain who they’ve been. No knot is too tight to be loosened with awareness, love, and persistence. The first rule of karma transformation: refuse the victim role. You are a creator.

Maybe in a forgotten past you made mistakes. Maybe in this life, you were wounded unfairly. But now you are aware—and awareness is the greatest chance to change.

The power of forgiveness—not only toward others but toward yourself—is the beginning of ending old cycles. Liberation means understanding that mistakes are part of the journey, not eternal locks on life’s door.

Believe in the force within you that can shift the path. That force is love. And love is stronger than karma. Every act of kindness, every moment of patience, undoes a knot you didn’t even know existed.

Awareness shines light on hidden patterns. When you see them clearly, you can stop repeating them. That’s what changing your course means. That’s power. That’s freedom.

Everything starts with one decision—the decision to live consciously. To stop punishing yourself. To choose care, forgiveness, and rebuilding.

The path of karma cleansing is long but beautiful. Each step frees you not only from your past but brings you closer to your true self.

Serving others, offering prayers, staying present, laughing through pain, gratitude for small things—these are not clichés, they’re real tools for transformation.

Even if you’re surrounded by suffering, you can become a center of silence and light. What matters is your choice: to be a victim or a creator.

One day you might look back and wonder, “How did I ever survive all that darkness?” And you’ll smile—because you chose to stay awake.

Maybe something in your childhood broke you. Maybe an unfinished love still weighs on your heart. But none of that determines your future. You do.

Each day is a new chance—to think better, to intend well, to shape beautiful karma. Nothing limits you but your own fears.

You have the power to change your path. Even if a thousand generations before you made mistakes. The power lies not in the stars or in fate or curses—it lives in your awakened heart.

Every good decision, even a small one, sends light into your future. Decide to be kind to yourself. Be honest with others. And instead of repeating, start creating.

Remind yourself: life is a stream of choices. Each one a new direction. You can change everything—if you believe in yourself.

The book ends here, but your journey has just begun. You no longer have to live chained to the past. You’ve seen. You’ve understood. And now—you’re ready.

Life’s arms are always open. You just have to rise—against your fears, your conditioning, and everything they told you. Rise, because you have the power to change your destiny.

Chapter Nine:
A List of Things That Create Karmic Knots in Your Life

A karmic knot is not just an event; it is a chain of compressed energy that remains unresolved. This energy is formed from intentions, actions, or even unfinished words. A knot that is not resolved will return—over and over again, until you see it, accept it, and correct it.

In this chapter, a detailed list of the most important behaviors that can create karmic knots in your life is presented. Each item is written bilingually to make its depth of meaning clearer.

  1. Intentional harm (physical, psychological, emotional) to others
    When we knowingly harm someone—whether by word or deed—and do not accept responsibility for it, negative energy becomes entrenched in our system.

Intentional harm to others (physical, emotional, psychological).
Conscious injury that goes unacknowledged creates a dense karmic knot.

  1. Betrayal of trust
    Breaking vows, secrets, or emotional commitments forges sticky karmic cords.
  2. Emotional manipulation and control
    Using guilt, fear, threats, or conditional love to steer others’ choices binds karmic energy.
  3. Abuse of power or position
    When someone uses their position, knowledge, or superior position to exploit others, heavy karmic debts are created.

Abuse of power or status.
Exploiting authority, knowledge, or wealth at others’ expense hardens karmic debt.

  1. Irresponsibility for the consequences of actions
    Avoiding responsibility, blaming others, or denying mistakes prevent the free movement of energy.

Refusing responsibility for outcomes.
Denial and blame-shifting keep karmic residue unprocessed.

  1. Humiliation, shaming, or labeling
    By belittling or labeling another person, we cause deeper damage than we realize.

Humiliation and shaming.
Attacking another’s dignity produces deep karmic entanglement.

  1. Financial exploitation or fraud
    Financial exploitation, financial exploitation, or unfair debts create karmic blockages in the area of wealth.

Unfair debts, scams, or manipulative money tactics crystallize karmic imbalance.

  1. Sexual boundary violations.

Coercion, assault, or silencing victims forms severe karmic knots.

  1. Systematic lying or long-term concealment.

Chronic lying and long-term deception.

Layered falsehood creates a web that traps all involved karmically.

  1. Spiritual abuse or bypassing.

When we use spiritual concepts to justify irresponsibility or escape pain, subtle energies are also contaminated.

Spiritual abuse or bypassing.

Twisting spiritual ideas to avoid accountability or control others builds subtle karmic blockages.

  1. Abandonment without repair.

Walking away from commitments (relationship, caregiving, parenting) without closure leaves karmic fragmentation.

  1. Repeating the harm you once suffered.

When the wounded become the wounders, karmic loops intensify across generations.

  1. Self-destruction and self-loathing

Let’s not forget that karma is not just interpersonal. Ignoring your own needs keeps your body, mind, and spirit in an internal knot.

Self-neglect and self-abuse.
Ignoring your own needs creates inward karmic knots; karma isn’t only interpersonal.

  1. Conscious indifference to the suffering of others
    When we can help and don’t, even our silence creates karmic energy.

Choosing indifference to suffering.
Conscious inaction in the face of preventable harm seeds karmic inertia.

  1. Negative inner vows
    Statements like “I’ll never love again” or “I don’t deserve happiness” act like subconscious spells, stopping the flow of energy.

Negative inner vows.
Subconscious promises (“I’ll never trust love”) restrict future flow and create karmic constrictions.

🔹 Summary
Karma knots begin with intentions, are formed by actions, and are solidified by neglect. But each of these knots can be untied if we shine the light of awareness on them, take responsibility, and take corrective steps.

Chapter Ten:
Signs That Could Mean Karma Exists (or Is Active) in Our Lives

Karma knots don’t always have to be obvious. Sometimes they warn us through signs—in the form of feelings, repetitions, or hidden patterns. This chapter will help you identify these signs so you know if an unresolved wound is re-playing. If karma is active, the universe always finds a way to remind you.

Here are fifteen common signs—with Persian explanations and English equivalents for deeper understanding.

  1. Repetition of similar situations with different people
    Every time you enter a relationship or situation, you encounter a familiar pattern (e.g., betrayal, abandonment, abuse). The pattern doesn’t change; only the actors involved change.
  2. Feeling stuck in a repeating loop
    You try, you change, but the same underlying problem (e.g. financial or emotional) always comes back.
  3. Chronic guilt without a clear cause
    You feel like you have made a mistake or owe something, but no specific event justifies it. This could be a remnant of unresolved karma.
  4. Disproportionate emotional reactions to small events
    For example, a simple criticism causes you to feel intense anger or fear. A wound from the distant past may be activated.
  5. Repeatedly attracting the same type of wounded person
    It is as if a hidden magnet is pulling you towards people who are hurt, controlling, or needy. Perhaps something inside you is still “resolving” an old issue.
  6. Failing at the same stage of progress
    Whether it’s a project, a relationship, or personal growth—you always stop or fail at a certain point.
  7. Recurring physical symptoms or illness patterns
    Pains or illnesses that doctors can’t find a specific cause for, but are triggered by specific emotions—like a stomachache when you’re rejected or a heartache when you feel rejected.
  8. Recurring dreams with powerful themes
    Recurring symbolic dreams
    For example, you always fall, get chased, or lose someone in your dreams. These can be symbolic manifestations of old memories.
  9. Strong instant attraction or aversion to someone
    For no reason, you either feel strongly attracted to someone or feel hatred or fear. There may be a hidden karmic connection.
  10. Feeling an unspoken debt to someone
    You sacrifice too much for someone without any reason. Perhaps a part of your soul feels that something needs to be repaid.
  11. Repeating fixed roles in family or community
    Repeating fixed roles (savior, victim, scapegoat)
    You always appear in a certain role—mediator, victim, rescuer, or culprit. These repetitions are often rooted in past karma.
  12. Life keeps teaching the same lesson until integrated
    For example, until you learn to say “no,” situations will come that force you to make a choice. Once you learn the lesson, the pattern suddenly disappears.
  13. Strange synchronicities around an unresolved issue
    You keep coming across signs, books, sentences, or people that are all about a specific issue. The universe is trying to remind you of something.
  14. A fear that feels “older than this life”
    You have a pain that doesn’t seem to belong in this lifetime. Sometimes we have fears that the logic of our current life doesn’t explain—and this may be a sign of unresolved karmic energy.
  15. Inability to forgive despite wanting to
    The mind says forgive, but the heart can’t. If you’re locked inside, there may be a chain from the past behind it.

🔹 Conclusion of this chapter:
If you experience even a few of these signs in your life, there is a high probability that there are active karmic knots. But this is not a reason for despair, but an opportunity for awareness. Because everything that is revealed can be changed.

Supplementary Chapter: Daily Practices for Karma Cleansing

When you wake up in the morning, even before anyone has spoken, before you’ve made any decisions, something feels heavy inside you. That is the residue of old energies still clinging to your soul. Karma cleansing is like a daily shower—not out of duty, but out of self-respect.

To begin these practices, you don’t need to be in a remote mountain or be a great mystic. All you need is presence—being here and now, without judgment, without rush, and ready to witness what you usually flee from. These practices are about release, not forgetting.

Just five minutes each day are enough. Sit with yourself, close your eyes, and repeat a single affirmation with attention, emotion, and belief. These simple but powerful phrases disconnect your mind from negative patterns and invite fresh energy into your life.

Close your eyes. Breathe deeply. Feel your body alive. Feel the earth beneath your feet. Now slowly repeat one of these affirmations, as if you are speaking to your soul—not the world. Let the words enter your heart.

➤ “I release old cycles. I am new.”
➤ “I accept the past, but I won’t let it define me.”
➤ “I choose forgiveness, not revenge.”
➤ “I am only responsible for my karma, not others’.”
➤ “Every day is a chance to rewrite my destiny.”

For deeper practice, keep a journal to note daily emotional or behavioral patterns. For example: “Why did that particular anger show up again today?” or “What is the lesson in this repetition?” This journal becomes your karmic map.

Cleansing doesn’t happen just in the mind. Sometimes the body must be involved. A silent walk, a long shower with intention, or even a breathing exercise can become a gateway to freedom. Karma lives in your cells, not only in your thoughts.

Whenever you feel heavy, guilty, or afraid—before any reaction—try this: take three deep breaths, pause, and repeat a healing sentence like: “I am safe. I will find my way.” That brief pause could change your entire future.

I suggest assigning a special affirmation to each day of the week:
Saturday: “Today I release the past with love.”
Sunday: “Nothing holds power over me but my choices.”
Monday: “Karma can end. I am a new beginning.”
Tuesday: “Awareness will save me.”
Wednesday: “Love is the higher law.”
Thursday: “Serving others is my liberation.”
Friday: “I am cleansed, free, and light.”

If one day you feel low or tempted to skip it all, just repeat this: “This too shall pass.” Because it will. No cycle is eternal—unless you keep it alive. You have the power to break it.

At the end of each week, ask yourself: “When was I truly aware this week?” Even one moment is enough. Big transformations start from small awakenings. You don’t have to be perfect tomorrow—just be present today.

These practices are not miraculous in themselves. They are realistic, simple, and practical. But if done with belief, commitment, and consistency, they create miracles. Instead of fearing karma, you learn to face it, speak to it, and move beyond it.

And the most important sentence to live by every day:
“I did not come to repeat suffering. I came to release the light.”

Conclusion

We began this journey with one question: Is it possible to be free from the past? Now that we’ve reached the end, the answer is no longer found in logic, but felt deeply within. Something inside has softened, a knot has untied, and perhaps a silent voice has whispered: Yes, it is.

Throughout this book, we traveled from mythology to astrology, from psychology to inner practices, confronting the many layers of karma. We realized that karma is not a divine punishment, but a silent language of unconscious repetition. We saw that many of our sufferings are rooted not in fate, but in unhealed pasts we’ve ignored.

From identifying karmic knots, to recognizing cycles, to daily practical exercises, we drew a map from pain to liberation. We learned that silence, observation, forgiveness, restitution, pure intention, and service to others are keys to unlock doors that may have been closed for years.

We learned that victimhood is a choice, and awareness is a path. That forgiving others means reclaiming our energy. And that prayer, meditation, and affirmations are not just spiritual tools—but instruments for rewiring the mind, energy, and future.

Though karma is woven through time and energy, with conscious presence, it can be rewritten. As we saw in the final chapter, every moment is a new opportunity to rebuild, and no knot is too tight to be loosened by the light of love and understanding.

This book was an invitation to step into stillness, to gaze at pain not with fear but curiosity, and to see the past not as a prison but as a bridge to growth. Along the way, even our mistakes became gifts for awakening, and our wounds became teachers of healing.

It is my hope that this book has not merely added new information to your mind, but initiated a subtle transformation within. One that, however slow, guides your life from repetitive pain to conscious freedom.

If this book has illuminated even one wound, unveiled one repeating pattern, or planted a single new decision in your heart, then it has fulfilled its mission. And if you still don’t have all the answers, don’t worry; sometimes, simply asking is the beginning of release.

Remember: you are not merely a victim of your past. You are the creator of a future not yet written. And every moment is a fresh chance to author a destiny you truly deserve. This is the real law of karma.

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