Tag: Karma
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Never work out of greed because whatever we achieve is going to be taken away at the time of death. Never become silent and inactive out of fear because there is really nothing to lose.
The question concerning Karma and Sannyāsa, responsibility and renunciation, has been asked from time immemorial, and each time it has been answered. Yet this question remains. Somebody asked me, ‘Why is the Gītā still relevant today?’ I said, ‘Because we never learned it.’ Although Gītā was uttered at least 5,000 years ago it is still…
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Depression of Success
Arjuna asks: sannyāsaṁ karmaṇāṁ kṛṣṇa punar yogaṁ ca saṁsasi (5.1)?’ ‘Kṛṣṇa! Now, will you please tell me surely, which of the two: karma, action or Sannyāsa, renunciation is more beneficial ? Again and again, all of us ask ourselves this question. The mind is in dilemma! The mind asks for a single instruction! Our mind…
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Stopping the effect immediately and rewinding it back to the cause, and the effect merging into the cause is Completion.
One of the great disciples of Vivekananda, Sister Nivedita asks him, ‘Swamiji, if I come with you what will you teach me? What will you give me?’ Vivekananda says, ‘I will teach you how to face death.’ That is the ultimate teaching. Here, Kṛṣṇa is giving that ultimate teaching. In these verses, He is saying…
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Many devotees feel they are touching a soft pillow or even feel nothing when I initiate them during energy Darshan. Basically, enlightened beings are just energy.
An ignorant man says to himself, ‘I shall do this action and thereby enjoy its result.’ A wise man should not unsettle this belief. Instead, he himself should set an example by performing his responsibilities diligently from the space of leadership, but without attachment. If the wise man condemns the actions performed with attachment, the…
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The quality of your life will be judged at the time of death only based on the quality of your inner space, not the quality of your outer space.
Usually people ask, ‘Swamiji, you say that life is purposeless. Then I may as well just lie down and relax. Who will give me food? Who will pay my bills?’ Let me tell you, you can never lie down forever. You may lie down for the next four or five days or for a week…
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The whole problem of humanity is what you want outside is not with you and what you don’t need inside in your inner space is with you. You need to empty your inside, which is filled with unnecessary furniture. You need to have all the necessary things outside. Creating the inner space of completion with integrity and authenticity will immediately do that job.
Root thought pattern is nothing but this first social conditioning, this strong cognition which imbalances you from your purposeless space and gives birth to the mind, the idea that there is some purpose to life. Life has no purpose. Even if you achieve whatever you want, you can’t take it with you. You can’t carry…
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Nothing is political or accidental on the planet Earth. Everything runs on the natural law of life, dharma of these four principles – Integrity, Authenticity, Responsibility, Enriching
Listen. When you take responsibility with authenticity, consciousness starts growing more intensely in the body! Shrinking does not happen. Consciousness growing in your body is enlightenment! Many of you in corporate life are focused on results. You will do something only if we think that it will be effective. You get caught in the result…
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The entire teaching of Bhagavad Gītā can be summarized in the two verses 2.47, 2.48.
The sheer brilliance of the wisdom of the Universal Master is reflected in these verses. Whenever I get a chance I refer to these verses to explain how one should lead one’s life. Kṛṣṇa says many, many things in these few words. He says, ‘You have the right and responsibility to work. You have no…
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Till you are enlightened there can never be Complete Completion, but your Completion is more stronger than your small incompletions, so incompletions become irrelevant, is Completion
I’ll recite 7th, 8th , 9th verses. Please recite along with me : yatccakṣuṣā na paśyati yena cakṣūṁṣi paśyati tadeva brahma tvaṁ viddhi nedaṁ yadidamupāsate || 7 || Eighth verse: yatcchrotreṇa na śṛṇoti yena śrotramidaṁ śrutam tadeva brahma tvaṁ viddhi nedaṁ yadidamupāsate || 8 || Ninth verse : yatprāṇena na prāṇiti yena prāṇaḥ praṇīyate tadeva…
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In the path of sannyas, your intelligence wins over your prarabdha and brings it to control and exhaust it !
Samsar literally means the ‘world’ or the ‘path’. It refers to the worldly life that causes endless cycles of birth and death. There are two ways to move in any path: either with baggage and people or by yourself. In the first case, you may have to wait for a longer time. In the second…
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When you really live intensely, automatically you will be liberated!
Our concern for karma is rooted in our fear of death. It is a primal fear, that of the unknown. Our actions in this life are for the most part driven by the desire to be in a better place after death or the fear not to be in a worse place after death. This…
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Nithyam – dhyanam – anandam
What is needed so as not to collect gathered agamya karma, is life solutions, what I call nithyam (eternal) because you practice them daily. To dissolve the karma of this birth, you need meditation or dhyanam. That is why you see that most of our meditations are based on breathing. Altering the breathing, making it…