In Continuation of Karma Yoga

[Guest guest]

In Bhagavd Gita at one stage, the Bhagavan said to Arjuna " Do thy duty and leave the result to me". This one sermon, I believe, summaries the Karma Yoga for the mankind. It's a very simple and direct statement and if followed by the mankind with unquestionable, unflinching Bhakthi, it will lead to salvation. No where it means that duty involves all bad duties like corruption, vulgar talk, cruelty, exploitation and the like . Bhagavan always implied good deeds and duties. Every person inwardly knows what is good and bad, but may not admit it publicly for the sake of mundane pleasures and achievements. Persons doing all good deeds with Bhakthi are bound to get peace of mind and finally attain salvation. Persons doing bad deeds are bound to lose the direction and thereby delay their place to salvation until they realize and start doing all good deeds for the benefit of mankind, which is very dear to Bhagavan. The Gopikas, Bhaktha Kannappa and Uddhav had unshakable faith in Bhagavan and attained salvation even while discharging their regular duties.

 

In view of the above, I think that we should not bother about observing rigorous rituals and procedures as laid down by various Munis, Philosophers and priests. We should not also bother about visiting various places and temples which are mostly manmade and now a days have become centers of business and exploitation. Let us try to spend all our energies, time and money for the uplift of mankind which is very dear to Bhagavan. This is again what Bhagavn said " I am everywhere and everything is me".

[Guest guest]

Sir,

 

 

I totally agree with your observations on

KARMA YOGA.Indeed I feel the entire mankind should be

grateful to Vedavyasa for profounding GITA which gives

sutle answers to every individual's problems.

 

Murthy.

" tangirala murthy " <tangirala_murthy

[Guest guest]

Dear ysr_ynk garu,

 

Sai Ram. While you rightly state Bhagavan's statement, " Do your duty

and leave the results to me " , your interpretation of the same

especially the later paragraphs is rather confusing. The type of

bhakti which Gopikas, Bhakta Kannappa and Shri Udhhav had for the God

is different from the bhakti which the great munis had for God. And

your advice to all of us to stop visiting temples which are man-made

(and who made the men who made those temples? Not God?) is again

confusing. Who can force us to offer something which we are not

willing? A robber probably. And God is there in that robber too! Some

one gets happiness (albeit temporary) from visiting a shopping mall

and another a temple. So what? All such happiness is temporary. True

happiness comes from realising that the God is residing in one's and

others' heart.

 

About God, " I am everywhere and everything is me " you say. Very true.

That sentence comes from the first line of Isa Upanishad (also called

the Isavasyopanishat). Then everything, including the apparently good

and the apparently bad is God. Including all the seemingly negative

people and their negative qualities! To see God in the other man

requires the God in us to be alive and awake. The indwelling God is

of

course alive but not necessarily awake, covered by Ajnana and Avidya.

 

All the matter in the world (irrepsective of the apparent qualities

like size, shape, electrical and magentic properties etc.) is made up

of small particles which in turn are condensed matters of energy.

That

energy is what our ancient seers called God! God is neither Good nor

Bad. He/She/It is beyond all such attributes.

 

Doing one's duty without any desire for the rewards of the same frees

one from the law of action and reaction (which is what karmaphala

signifies - we have to reap what we sow). And till one reaches the

stage of oneness with the Universal Source (God) and realises the

essential unity of the doer, the done and the deed (karta, karma and

the kriya), the advice is to offer (with a sincere mind) all the

results of one's action to the God (this arises from the dwaita

bhava,

the feeling of duality). " Sarvam Sri Krishnaarpanamastu " arises from

the feeling of separation from Sri Krishna. If we indeed realise that

we are one with Him, who offers the karma phala to whom?

 

I thank you for stimulating a discussion on a very important subject.

Sai Ram.

 

With best wishes,

 

Swamy

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