Guest guest Posted September 26, 2003 Report Share Posted September 26, 2003 PRARABDHA KARMA (Destiny, fate, luck) There are heaps and heaps of lofty mountainful of unripe Sanchit Karmas(accumulated Karmas) piled up amounting to billions and billions of millions i.e. innumerable Sanchit Karmas deposited in balance at the credit of each and every person, earned and accumulated by him during his past innumerable births since time immemorial. They do not become ripe to give fruits all at a time in one birth. Only a very few of them, say about 10,000 Sanchit Karmas out of this whole tremendous stock become ripe and ready to give fruits during one lifetime. They are called Prarabdha Karmas (readily destined to give fruits commonly known as fate, luck, fortune, destiny etc.). Strictly according to these Prarabdha Karmas a person gets a particular type of body, parents, wife, children, wealth, caste, creed, race, sex, environment, etc. just appropriate to enjoy, suffer and exhaust his Prarabdha Karmas destined during his present lifetime. He cannot leave his present body till he has fully enjoyed, suffered and exhausted all these Prarabdha Karmas during his present life even though he is totally bed-ridden or suffering due to paralysis and other diseases.and desperately craving for freedom from his crippled body. But as soon as his Prarabdha Karmas destined to be enjoyed during his present lifetime are fully exhausted, he immediately becomes free from this body and again gets a new body to enjoy other new Prarabdha Karmas, say about 20,000 which have become ripe by that time to give him fruits. Unfortunately, while exhausting his predestined Prarabdha Karmas during one lifetime, he creates and accumulates many more new Karmas during the same lifetime which are again deposited in the stock of his previous Sanchit Karmas and this situation is repeated in every birth. Thus the vicious cycle goes on uninterruptedly increasing, instead of decreasing, the total balance of Sanchit Karmas at the end of each birth. The stock of Sanchit Karmas is increasing by leaps and bounds as the new accumulation is much more than the expenditure during each birth and there is no end to this process. Therefore, the cycle of birth and death goes on indefinitely and there does not appear to be any hope of chance for liberation of emancipation. Recognising this, Shri Shankaracharya has humbly requested God as under: PUNARAPI JANANAM PUNARAPI MARANAM PUNARAPI JANANI JATHARE SHAYANAM. IHA SANSARE KHALU DUSTARE KRUPAYA PARE PAHI MURARE. Repeated births and repeated deaths And repeatedly sleeping in the womb of mother This ocean of SANSARA is really difficult to cross OH GOD, kindly save me and help me to cross. --- Narayan Datta <dattadevotee2000 wrote: > Jai Guru Datta , > > Can any body explain the term 'PRARABDHA KARMA'? . > > I know what is Karma , wondering what is 'PRARABDHA' > . > > Thanks > > Sree Guru Datta , > Narayan Datta . > > > > > The New with improved product > search > > [Non-text portions of this message have been > removed] > > > ------------------------ Sponsor > > Latest News and Additions > http://www.dattapeetham.com/additions/new.html > > Visit http://www.swamijis-music.org for Sri Swamiji > Nadaprasara 2003 program schedule > > Post message: JAIGURUDATTA > > We apologize if you have received this mail in > error. To from this list: send the line > "" in the subject/body of a message to > JAIGURUDATTA-owner > > > Your use of is subject to > > > The New with improved product search Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 26, 2003 Report Share Posted September 26, 2003 Narayan, Jai Guru Datta! To understand Prarabdha Karma, we have to understand the Karma philospohy. I'll write a few lines here in brief: Most of human beings have incarnated in a human-body due to residual Karma from previous life (this applies to animals as well). The purpose of life(/incarnation) in a body/medium is to undo all the karmas accumulated over (all) the past lives. Out of the Total Karmic Account (if you will), we take a chunk of it to experience (or rather undo) in a particular lifetime. This is called Prarabdha karma. This includes good karma (punya) as well as bad karma (papa/sin). Some Examples of Experiencing/undoing good karma is getting a good body, good parents, good family, good education, good job, good offsprings etc. Similarly, examples of undoing bad karma could be having calamities/accidents/ enemies/losses etc. Well... a human being incarnates in a body with prarabdha karma. In the process, he/she does accumulates karma by acting/reacting (using freewill) to pre-destined situations (which occur due to prarabdha). This is called Sanchita Karma (which gets added to the total karmic account) eventually. The net balance of the prarabdha karma and the additionally accumulated sanchita karma give rise to a grand total (at the end of one's life). This Grand Total is termed "Agami karma". Until the agami karma reaches "0", one has to go through the cycle of births and deaths. To avoid sachita karmas (reactions using freewill), various virtues and various techniques (puja, worship, bhajans, homas and the nine-types of devotion) and eight-types of Yoga sadhanas etc.) are prescribed by the sadgurus to develop chitta-suddhi (purity of the mind). Once the mind is purified from negative thoughts etc. -- which is equated to a well-ploughed field, sadguru plants the seed of Gnana (knowledge) which will take root only if the mind continues to remain pure (through sadhana) and eventually gives rise to moksha (liberation). In this process, with the Grace of the Guru -- all the ashtaSiddhis (eight treasures) are attained. In this fire of yoga sadhana, all the previous karmas (sanchita/agami) get burnt/destroyed. This is possible ONLY with Guru-Kripa (grace) and guru-seva (service). That was my 2 cents in brief. Please respond if you have any questions/comments. Jaya Jaya Guru Deva Datta! Praveen Nidumolu. --- Narayan Datta <dattadevotee2000 wrote: > Jai Guru Datta , > > Can any body explain the term 'PRARABDHA KARMA'? . > > I know what is Karma , wondering what is 'PRARABDHA' . > > Thanks > > Sree Guru Datta , > Narayan Datta . > > > > > The New with improved product search > > > > The New with improved product search Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 29, 2003 Report Share Posted September 29, 2003 The fire of true knowledge reduces to ashes the sins, the pious deeds and the Karmas The end of wisdom is freedom. The end of culture is perfection. The end of education is character. The end of knowledge is Love. from dattapeetham.com - talks - short sayings - knowledge JGD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 30, 2003 Report Share Posted September 30, 2003 Jai Guru Datta All, In my excitement to type this reply in a flash, I inadvertently flip-flopped the "Sanchita" and "Agami" karma descriptions. I apologize for any confusions that this might have caused. In summary: Sanchita Karma: Sum total of all the past karmas accumulated. Prarabdha Karma: Part of Sanchita Karma that fructified -- which is responsible for the present body. Agami (or vartamana or kriyamana) karma -- Karma that is being done in the present life (with freewill) as an action/reaction to destiny instigated by the samskaras/vasanas (tendencies/impressions) from past lives. Sri Guru Datta, Praveen Nidumolu --- Praveen Nidumolu <p_nidumolu wrote: > Narayan, > > Jai Guru Datta! > > To understand Prarabdha Karma, we have to understand the Karma philospohy. > I'll write a few lines here in brief: > > Most of human beings have incarnated in a human-body due to residual Karma > from > > previous life (this applies to animals as well). > The purpose of life(/incarnation) in a body/medium is to undo all the karmas > accumulated over (all) the past lives. > > Out of the Total Karmic Account (if you will), we take a chunk of it to > experience (or rather undo) in a particular lifetime. This is called > Prarabdha karma. This includes good karma (punya) as well as bad karma > (papa/sin). > > Some Examples of Experiencing/undoing good karma is getting a good body, good > parents, good family, good education, good job, good offsprings etc. > Similarly, examples of undoing bad karma could be having > calamities/accidents/ > enemies/losses etc. > > Well... a human being incarnates in a body with prarabdha karma. In the > process, > he/she does accumulates karma by acting/reacting (using freewill) to > pre-destined situations (which occur due to prarabdha). > This is called Sanchita Karma (which gets added to the total karmic account) > eventually. > > The net balance of the prarabdha karma and the additionally accumulated > sanchita karma give rise to a grand total (at the end of one's life). This > Grand > Total is termed "Agami karma". > > Until the agami karma reaches "0", one has to go through the cycle of births > and > deaths. > To avoid sachita karmas (reactions using freewill), various virtues and > various > techniques (puja, worship, bhajans, homas and the nine-types of devotion) and > eight-types of Yoga sadhanas etc.) are prescribed by the sadgurus to develop > chitta-suddhi (purity of the mind). Once the mind is purified from negative > thoughts etc. -- which is equated to a well-ploughed field, sadguru plants > the > seed of Gnana (knowledge) which will take root only if the mind continues to > remain pure (through sadhana) and eventually gives rise to moksha > (liberation). > In this process, > with the Grace of the Guru -- all the ashtaSiddhis (eight treasures) are > attained. > > In this fire of yoga sadhana, all the previous karmas (sanchita/agami) get > burnt/destroyed. This is possible ONLY with Guru-Kripa (grace) and guru-seva > (service). > > That was my 2 cents in brief. Please respond if you have any > questions/comments. > > Jaya Jaya Guru Deva Datta! > Praveen Nidumolu. > > --- Narayan Datta <dattadevotee2000 wrote: > > Jai Guru Datta , > > > > Can any body explain the term 'PRARABDHA KARMA'? . > > > > I know what is Karma , wondering what is 'PRARABDHA' . > > > > Thanks > > > > Sree Guru Datta , > > Narayan Datta . > > > > > > > > > > The New with improved product search > > > > > > > > > > > > > The New with improved product search > > The New with improved product search Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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