Spirituality aims at making you experience karmas in a serene, composed way. A Mahaan can definitely ease the effect of your karmas. But he cannot nullify your miseries.

Krishna Paramaathma was always with the Pandavas, yet they were flooded with miseries. Towards the end of the Mahabharatha war, Bhishma laments to the Pandavas, 'How much karma you Pandavas have accumulated, that makes you suffer, despite Lord Krishna Himself being always with you!'.

Never grumble to a Mahaan that your miseries are not over. He can enhance your virtues. He can reduce your vices. He can never cancel your sorrows. Assume someone is sentenced to ten years of imprisonment for a crime he has committed. If he behaves properly, the sentence will be reduced by five years for his good behavior, some more years reduced for commemorative days and he will be released in two years time. His good behavior will only reduce the sentence, it will not invalidate it.

God created all these rules. He never goes against His code. Otherwise why did God undergo trials when He came as Rama and Sita? They reached the Ultimate. But their physical form still had to undergo some karmas. Else why did Rama have to lie down on Darbha grass? Why did King Harichandra, Nala, Pandavas suffer? All of them had certain karmas. Why did Ramana Maharishi suffer from cancer? His physical form had to undergo the remaining karmas. Everyone who takes birth has to experience karmas to rise above the cycle of births.

I don’t have any karmas. So I am happy and free. You can also enjoy this. This is Mukthi. Mukthi is not an air-conditioned room in Heaven. It is the art of leading life in this world with no thoughts to hinder the path. This will happen, only after you undergo all karmas. This is the concept that Siva Shankar Baba wants to imbibe in you. I am here with you. So I can help you repay the loan of your karmas and add to your virtue list. I have the authority to do so. I can even write off your karma debts. But it is not worth it. If I discount your karmas in this birth, you will have one more birth and the karmas too, to suffer. I may or may not be there then, you may or may not come to me! What is the guarantee? So now that I am here with you, I can help you bear your burden. If I do not, who will do this for you? By the carried over virtue of your previous births, you have come to a powerful Mahaan like me. If you do not have any good left, it will pull you further down. If illusion pulls you down, what will you do? I am here with you now. I can make you undergo your karmas, without your knowing the extent of your miseries. Sorrows will come. When Karna aimed the Nagaastra at Arjuna, Arjuna’s destiny was, to be hit by it. But Krishna lowered the chariot with His toe, and the arrow that must have beheaded Arjuna, knocked Arjuna’s crown away. Fate had to be contented with this. When you come to me with total trust, I will ensure that your miseries do not affect you. 

A Mahaan bears your burdens. That’s why Jesus states, ‘O Come, all Ye burdened! I shall offer thee shelter’. Did Jesus claim to remove the load? All he offered was rest. What is rest? An old woman carrying a bundle of dry sticks on her head in the heat of summer, , falls down in fatigue. A passer by unloads the bundle, escorts her to shade, gets some cool buttermilk for her to drink, fans her sweat away, makes her sleep for sometime, and when she is sufficiently relieved, helps her reload her bundle. He puts the bundle back on her head, he does not carry it for her. He has helped her in need, that’s it.

So also, a Gnani will be keen to help you undergo your karmas and get you out of the cycle of rebirths. He is not an astrologer to give you shortcut methods that help you escape from your karmas this birth, but give you future birth cycles with added karmas. No Gnani will do that. A Gnani wishes to give you the best of things available with him. He is not interested in confusing you further and making you undergo the torture of more births.