Where is the accounting kept when we are reborn, and what remains?
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"You are the doer and the experiencer, and within you lies the entire ledger of your actions; each moment shapes your future, but through awareness, you can break the chains of your past."
According to Osho, the karmic 'accounting' is not stored anywhere outside you—you are the doer, experiencer and entire ledger. Each act immediately bears fruit and leaves a samskara, a tendency or habit, not a compulsion. Those conditionings are what continue, shaping the next moment—and, if rebirth occurs, the next life—yet they can be broken and transformed through awareness now.
Your habits are the only ‘account’ you carry forward; there’s no cosmic clerk, and you can change those habits anytime.
Why this matters practically
- Redirects effort from fear of fate to conscious habit-change.
- Encourages immediate responsibility: tendencies aren’t destiny.
- Use awareness to weaken anger/distrust and strengthen trust/love.
- Encourages immediate responsibility: tendencies aren’t destiny.
- Use awareness to weaken anger/distrust and strengthen trust/love.
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