Guest guest Posted June 28, 2009 Report Share Posted June 28, 2009 Dear Friends,Hari Om. The term'Karma' is often misunderstood more than it is correctly understood. When we do not know the causes which have produced an effect, we call the result as attributable to destiny or fate or chance. These loose nomenclatures amount to nothing but the lamenting over results. This also is a pointer to the confession of failure to use our intelligence to find out the causes which certainly existed and produced the result. As a result of our actions and thoughts and the attachments developed thereby, we come into being in a fresh body with certain fixed tendencies ( Vasanas). The doctorine of past and future lives and continuity of evolution through many lives is an extension of the law of cause and effect as we see it working every day. The Bagavad Gita declares that all living beings other than the Supreme being take birth under the subordination of Prakriti in various wombs and undergo pleasureable or painful experiences according to their past Karmas. Thus in the case of an individual (jiva), birth and death are brought about by his Karma and not by his will. The jiva has to remain pent up in the womb of his mother and lead a miserable existence there. Subsequently, he has to undergo the ordeal of birth. Thereafter, the body grows through efflux of time and perishes in due course,when it is said that the jiva is dead. Compelled by his Karma, he again takes birth in another form and the process goes on repeating till he is liberated from the bondage of births and deaths. If we perform the duties enjoined by the Scriptures without attachment, desire for fruit and the feeling of egoism, those actions do not bear fruit in the form of pleasure and pain in this world or next nor they lead to rebirth. On the other hand, they bring about liberation from the bondage of worldly existence by neutralizing the latencies of all previous Karmas,both god and bad. All this is not a sermon from this humble self. This is what the Lord has declared in the Bagavad Gita. (to be continued)G.Balasubramanian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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