On Parabdha Karma

[Guest guest]

I really appreciated the following excerpt from a talk by Swami

Ramsukhdasji (no longer in body). Our own Swamiji has addressed the

different kinds of karma and karmic tendencies many times in our

online classes. I thought perhaps to share this excerpt. It seems also

to be a wise statement for anyone interested in joytish. Jai Maa

 

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From " Amrut Bindu " in Hindi pg 40, in English pg 31, Gita 9:12 by

Swami Ramsukhdasji

 

Destiny is for removing worries and anxiety, but it is not for making

one lazy and useless.

 

Man does not commit sins or virtues due to his destiny (fruits of past

actions); as the fruit of actions is not new actions, rather it is

enjoyments or sorrows.

 

Destiny only presents favorable and unfavorable conditions and

situations, but man is independent in being happy and unhappy from

these situations.

 

The ordinance of the Almighty, all Knowing, Omnipresent, Omniscient,

Omnipotent God is that no one suffers more punishment than his sins

and the punishment received is the fruit of some or the other of his

own sins committed in the past.

 

What happens is always alright, it can never not be alright. Therefore

in doing one must be very careful, and in all the happenings that are

taking place, one must remain ever joyful.

 

Actions that are not ordained by the scriptures, do not happen due to

one's destiny, but they happen due to one's desires.

 

On one hand there is " doing " and on the other is " happening " . Both are

in a separate compartment. " Doing " is dependent on one's effort, and

" happenings " is dependent on one's destiny (past actions). Therefore

man is independent in doing, and in receiving the fruits of actions,

man is dependent.

 

Ram Ram