Guest guest Posted October 21, 2000 Report Share Posted October 21, 2000 Dear Rhoda <<one more thing that baffles me is that, if someone is working out his or her karma and is doing wrong things, is he/she justified? that means there is no chance for reforming the person?>> Karma is so vast to understand. Karma, akarma and vikarma. We are not authorities to judge. By serving the servant of the servant of the Lord we are protected from our mistakes. By serving our senses there are many categories of karma. Mother nature is wisher than us and she knows what is best for her children, sometimes it is better to allow a person to get the poison out of his/her system. False renunciation brings only delays in our spiritual advancement, tolerance is better than repression and in time we may see a recovery. I know many people that when very young they took the spiritual path and followed very strict rules and regulations. In time, many of them left that path to work out the experiences of life which they had missed. Those lessons were essential in their karmic debts. Krishna says in the Bhagavad Gita that He will spare our karmic debts if we surrender to Him. The question is, are we ready to surrender? or are we trying to surrender? >From the Bhagavad Gita As It Is by Swami Prabhupada we read. "Even a man of knowledge acts according to his own nature, for everyone follows the nature he has acquired from the three modes of nature. What can repression accomplish?" BG 3.33 "Arjuna said: O descendant of Vrisni, by what is one impelled to sinful acts, even unwillingly, as if engaged by force? The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: It is lust only, Arjuna, which is born of contact with the material mode of passion and later transformed into wrath, and which is the all-devouring sinful enemy of this world" idem BG 3. 36-37 I am glad to hear that your mate's father is doing ok. regards Natabara das Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 25, 2000 Report Share Posted October 25, 2000 thanks for the explanation!! helps always regards rhoda Messenger - Talk while you surf! It's FREE. http://im./ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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