Karmam and Punyam

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When karmam does become punyam?

 

Karmam, literally meaning work, in one word is the work done by body.

 

OR

Is it so?

 

Lets have a broder look.

 

What is work. Is it just the work done by the body. If it is Is does

the movements of the body parts make a work complete. If not what does

and so on and so on. There are soo many questions that comes in to the

mind when I think about this small, but broad subject. This is what

the supreme teacher tried to tell to his parthan.

 

So lets see what karmam is all about.

 

We all know from our general knowledge in highs chool that when our

brain tells us to do something, we do that. Who tells the brain to do

that?

 

It's the duty of the jeevaathma in us to persuade the brain to give

orders, and it is the duty of the Paramathma to persuade the jeevathma

to do so (exactly like in Gita, only there the jeevathma and the

paramathma were two physical entities and here both are us or in us).

 

Krsna said to Arjuna " whatever you do, arjuna, do unto me and you will

be freed from all the bonds of work, and you will not have to worry

about the result, what so ever "

 

Why did he said that…why didn't he say just do the work when you are

working and after the work just call me (in that way you can be 100%

sincere to the work).

 

Pausing the questionnaire for a while and am jumping from here to look

karmam in a broader view.

 

Our body is made up of infinite cells, and each cell is made up of a

nucleus and different cell particles around it like cytoplasm,

endoplasm, golgi apparatus, and many funny names like that. Now wait a

minute wow, there are different members in a cell, in my body that I

didn't knew about…now just pause for a minute and think about how vast

our body and think about all that members that moves and does work

inside us. They too are living, moving working taking energy in and

giving out the results of the work, and all that done inside our body

without even giving you anything noticeable. They are the ones who run

your body. They are the advisory board of your body, and brain is just

a hardware where they put the output to.

 

When you take in food, each and every cell takes in the sufficient

energy it needs so as to perform work or their prescribed karmam. Each

cell acts like a furnace where you churn the food and gives out

energy, and if you have enough visualization power, just imagine, how

it'll be to look at your body from that pint of view. It'll be like

looking at the WTC at night. It'll be all lit up and your body will be

like a star lit sky.

 

Now, you want to move your hand and comb your hair. You burn energy to

do that and all the cells in your body work for that, all the infinite

cells working synchronously for the combing of your hair.

 

Here is the tricky part. When all your infinite or so cells worked

for a purpose and you are happy for the good job you have done. Your

hair looks soo neat and you look handsome/cute. This was the work you

want to be done. Is this the work the jeevathma wanted? To be precise,

NO.

 

Jeevathma is always in touch with the Paramathma and it's the outer

ear and eyes that don't see that supreme power, coz that's how we were

created by Brahman. Or in other words Paramathma wants Jeevathma to

think about him all the time so that he can guide us. Even though

jeevathma and Paramathma are located in the same body, They are

located far apart, not like 10 or 15 miles, but infinitely far apart.

 

Now lets come back to the cell theory we were talking about.

Remembering about KRSNA all the time: In this case whenever you do a

karma and lit up all your inner lights, you are doing it unto KRSNA

and it is even holier than a Lakshadweepam conducted in a temple.

Because you are doing the same in the temple of the Jeevathma and

Paramathma. Now just think about the austerity of what you have just

read. You are not participating in a lakshadweepam, or you are not

condcting a lakshadweepam. You are literally making yourself the

lakshadweepam, only and only when you think about The Paramathma,

Krsna, when you are doing the job. So don't waste all the deepams you

lit when you do your work, as a matter of fact, for a single celled

organism, what we are having is utter luxury, and when we don't use it

to worship the supreme, the sweet guruvayurappan, then it can inturn

become the biggest sin. So make use of of each and every light lit up

inside ur body. Use it for the Neela komala shyamala varnan. Use it

for the worship of the Supreme and every work shall have the holiness

of a lakshadweepam. And that's a reward not easy for other organisms.

 

In this manner you can make your karmam, a punyam.