[Om Krishna Guru] Can effects of bad star position be removed?

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The stars or planets are the executives of the cycle of Samskaras,

karmas and their corresponding fruits, which are totally called as

cycle of deeds (karma charka). They are the executives of the

judgments given by the judge (Dharma deva), who follows the

constitution written by God. God never interferes with the executive

function of His own commandments as said in the Gita (Nadatte

kasyachit paapam). Shastras say that one has to undergo the results

of his deeds even after millions of Yugas (Kalpa koti satairapi).

This does not mean that the postponement of simple principle takes

place. The interest is accumulated by way of compounding. Therefore

scholars like to enjoy the results as early as possible. They never

pray God to cancel the judgment, which is impossible. By prayers or

certain rituals or by exhaustive crying before God, only

postponement of the enjoyment of the results along with the interest

takes place. Ignorant people misunderstand this postponement as

canceling. Therefore this fundamental aspect must be realized. When

the priests do certain rituals by taking some dakshina from you,

they are purchasing your punishment through your money. Therefore a

real Vedic scholar will never do the business of a priest because he

knows the whole concept. No real Vedic scholar accepts the dakshina

and even food from anybody, which are called as aparigraha and

vaishwadeva respectively. Sai Baba said that the breads offered by

the householders were theirs sins only. Eating that bread is only

enjoying the sin of others. Thus you find in our ancient tradition

when somebody offers meals in a function to others, others also

offer the same in their functions.

 

The priest is earning his livelihood by this way but is becoming

more and more affected. The priests are thinking that they are

cheating the public but they are cheating themselves by this way. It

is better to do hard work and earn the livelihood than such business

of transfer of sin for money. But if the whole ritual is transformed

into a divine worship of God, the story is totally different. The

grace of God comes there and the God may be pleased to reduce or

remove the sin by enjoying it Himself through a human form. Here

also the justice is not violated. The father pays the fine for his

son. This is the only way of removing the sin. Either it should be

postponed with interest or it should be sold to a priest or God

Himself should enjoy it. In anyway the result of the deed has to be

enjoyed and it can never be cancelled without enjoyment. But if you

conduct the ritual as a divine worship of God and give dakshina to a

deserving devotee, then the story is different. The devotee does not

enjoy your sin. God comes down in human form and enjoys your sin for

the sake of that devotee. Even in this case the results have to be

enjoyed only. Instead of selling your sin to a priest, it is better

to sell your sin to a devotee. God has the tolerance to enjoy the

sin of His devotee or the sin transferred to His devotee from you.

But if you do the ritual by worshipping God and offering dakshina to

the devotee, without the aim of removing your sins, the result is

tremendous. It is a real sacrifice without any aim of business. God

will undergo all your sins without any account since your sacrifice

is also without any account. Therefore you must remove this

poisonous idea of removing your sins through rituals by offering

dakshina to the priests or devotees. You must be prepared to undergo

the results of your sins and do the rituals with the same sacrifice

without aspiring any fruit. Then God will bless you.

 

You are trying to remove the problems but the problems are only your

real friends in the spiritual line. The constant existence of

problems will activate you and suppress your egoism creating a

favorable atmosphere for the devotion to God. The happiness will

make you proud and lazy and you will be deviated from the spiritual

line. Therefore scholars like to enjoy the problems, which are the

guiding forces in the spiritual line. Kunti asked for existence of

problems continuously as a boon from Krishna. The real tears will

come in misery only while praying the God. This human life is

obtained as rare chance after a long time of passing through several

lives of animals. Thus the animal nature is concentrated in us and

the constant presence of beating stick is necessary for us to grow

in the right spiritual path. Mere knowledge through words will not

bring realization. From this point also avoiding the enjoyment of

punishments is also not correct for the spiritual progress. The

realized soul invites difficulties for the sake of spiritual

progress. An ignorant soul tries to avoid the difficulties and

invites happiness by praying God. God brings back the results of

good deeds arranged in the future life cycles with reduced value

like a pre-matured deposit. By this the future cycle becomes full of

misery only. Sometimes we find people who are hit with misery from

birth to death. These were the people who pressed God for happiness

and their happiness of previous births was the fruits of good deeds

drawn from the present life cycle. God arranges every human life

with alternating fruits of good and bad deeds like meals with

alternating sweet and hot dishes. A liberated soul invites both

happiness and misery in alternating way for full entertainment. The

happiness derived from such entertainment is continuous and is

called as Ananda. Nanda means happiness. The letter `A' before Nanda

means continuity (Aasamantaat). The word Sukham denotes happiness,

which is always temporary. It disappears when misery appears. But

Ananda is continuous happiness, if you can enjoy the misery also

like a hot dish.

 

A spiritual aspirant who aims at the grace of God wants to perform

penance, which is a rigorous Saadhana. While doing penance you

create difficulties artificially by litting the fire around you.

This means spiritual aspirant wants continuous misery as the guiding

force. The happiness and richness induce egoism and inertness, which

are obstacles of spiritual Saadhana. You will wonder to hear the

special worship performed by Me sometime back in which I uttered the

Sankalpa which states that I should get severe difficulties and

poverty so that Jnana, Bhakti and Vairagya (spiritual knowledge,

devotion and detachment) will improve in Me. Thus if you are a

realized soul, you will invite difficulties as your spiritual guru.

If you are a liberated soul you will invite both for entertainment.

If you go to a picture, you like to see scenes of both happiness and

misery. When you take meals, you like both sweet and hot dishes.

Then why are you not inviting both misery and happiness in your life

for entertainment? The entire creation created by God for

entertainment is a mixture of day & night, summer & winter, birth &

death, happiness & misery etc. The equality in the entertainment of

both is called as Yoga according to the Gita (samatvam yoga uchyate).

 

at the lotus feet of shri datta swami

surya

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