I had my spiritual awakening already and want to become a spiritual coach, will charging money accumulate my karma?

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Well, it is up to you and there’s probably a market for your coaching, but the truth is, you are not awake yet - you have just had a spiritual experience, and formed new, spiritual beliefs around it.

Genuine awakening happens when you lose all your beliefs, including the one that “everything happens for a reason” and karma.

If you want to make money off your experience - be my guest, there’s nothing wrong with that. Such are not the things that accumulate karma. But if you feel a pull to teach, a desire to share your understanding with others, help them, then it is too early for you to do so. Only when this desire is completely gone you will have true wisdom to share.

That is not to say you cannot help someone - you probably can. If you really want to try, who am I to tell you otherwise. It’s your life, your freedom. But you cannot be a master, not yet - only a messenger.

Finally, if you are successful in that, will it stump your progression towards a genuine awakening? Absolutely. Most people who start teaching too early lock themselves at their current level of understanding.