Is Your Karma Good or Bad

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Namaste,

 

Sri Sadagopan Swami had refrenced a book named DIVINE SOVEREIGNTY

AND OUR FREEDOM - Authored by NEDUNTHERU S. KANNAN.

 

Please get a copy of this book. In this book the author discusses

in detail the operation of the Law of Karma and God's role in it

based on our illustrous poorvAcharyas commentaries and would answer

in detail most of the questions we might have about karma, free will

and Lords roles.

 

shashi

 

Oppiliappan, "M.K. Krishnaswamy"

<krishnaswamy@c...> wrote:

> Dear Devotees,

>

> Nivrutta Ravi wants to understand the operation of the Law of Karma

and God's role in it.

>

> Across centuries, philosophers have discussed this question thread-

bare and reached no conclusion that is acceptable to all in the

manner of a scientific statement proved by repeatable experiments.

Those who have the bhagyam of implicit trust in the existence of a

compassionate and just God lead their lives accepting all happenings,

bitter or sweet, with equanimity. Bhagavad Gita calls them stitha-

prgnyas. Those who need explanations/justifications get confused

reviewing hundreds of theories in favour or against the fundamental

belief about the existence of a God who is compassionate, omnipotent

and omnipresent.

>

> As I grow old, I have slowly realised the futility of this search

due to the incapability and undependability of my limited intellect

to resolve the issue. Ultimately, I tend to agree with the statement

of British author CEM Joad who analysed the dilemma in more than 100

pages and stated, after reaching a dead-end:

> ".... the conclusions of the intellect deny that the orthodox God

of the religious hypothesis - omnipotent and benevolent, could have

been the creator of the world; and deny it precisely because of the

fact of evil. But if the intellect denies what the heart demands,

what then? ...perhaps the deadlock is a sign of, perhaps it is even a

punishment for, intellectual arrogance..."

>

> Call it blind-faith, call it the wisdom of Ages, I would now like

to choose to place trust in the dictates of the heart rather than my

over-valued intelligence and trust in God without question like the

infant child in its mother. But then, one has to go through life's

rough journey and experience its failures to reach this simple

conclusion without further questioning. I truly envy the child that

has learned instinctively to trust, the moment it is born.

>

> We have to empty this cup of our mind stuffed with the

miscellaneous knowledge that has been collected, so that we can

receive certain simple truths about our relationship with the One who

gave us life and placed us in this world. Lao Tsu called this

the 'Law of the reversed effort' and said:

> "To know the Truth, one must get rid of knowledge"

>

> Ramana Maharishi: (Upadesa Saram -27)

>

> gnyaana varjitaa agnyaana-heena chit

> gnyaanamasti kim gnyaatum-antaram

>

> Alan Watts, a great scholar and believer in Eastern philosophy has

said:

>

> "What religion calls the vision of God is found in giving up

> any pre-conceived belief in the idea of God.

>

> By the same law of reversed effort,

> we discover the "infinite" and the "absolute,"

> not by straining to escape from the finite and relative world,

> but by the most complete acceptance of its limitations.

>

> Paradoxical as it may seem,

> we likewise find life meaningful only

> when we have seen that it is without purpose,

> and know the "mystery of the universe"

> only when we are convinced that we know nothing about it at all. "

>

> krishnaswamy m k

>

> Wed, 4 May 2005 05:04:15 -0700 (PDT)

> Nivrutta Ravi <nivrutta_r>

> Is Your Karma Good or Bad

>

> Respected elders,

> I came acros this article forwarded by a friend. I

> hope you enjoy this article. I have included my query

> at the end of this article. Hope you clarify my naive

> question .

> Is Your karma Good or Bad