In continuation of Secret of work

[Guest guest]

Dear Radhi,

 

Sai Ram. I am not sure whether you got some replies to

your mail. Let me try to explain what he meant. Just

as an outdated medicine is no longer effective, the

past karma is no longer effective after God's grace is

obtained. God's grace gives us the Atma Jnana, true

knowledge about ourself and our identification with

the physical, mental, causal bodies etc. is snapped.

So, what happens to the physical or other bodies later

is no longer a concern to us. So, we are no longer

bound by karma.

 

Another analogy will probably be a little more

helpful. Suppose a prisoner is sentenced for life.

That would be 20 years. But because of his good

behavior, he gets a remission of 6 years and thus is

freed after 14 years. If you think of his sentence as

his karma, he is freed from his karma 6 years before

due. Suppose on the other hand, he misbehaves while

serving his sentence. He is sentenced for another life

term. So not only does he not get the remission for

good behavior but also gets an additional sentence and

thus is kept in prison. Similarly, good acts help us

reduce our karmic debts and bring us closer to God and

help us to get His grace. Bad acts take us farther

from Him and make us suffer the consequences for this

and future lifes too.

 

There is however one caveat to all this. If one is

exceptionally bad (evil is probably the right word),

he succeeds in drawing the positive energy of God that

much earlier and gets salvation too! But to be so

strongly evil also requires great energy and they do

in fact obtain such energy through long tapas!

 

A big negative number needs a big positive number to

balance and similarly when dharma is threatened, God

takes birth to destroy the evil and protect the good.

Yada Yadahi dharmascha glanir bhavati bharatha, .....

 

With best wishes,

 

Swamy

P.S: Just in case you are thinking in that line, I

would like to clarify that I am not a monk. I am known

by this short name to all my friends.

Swarna Venkateswara Swamy " <truthseeker123x

[Guest guest]

Dear Swamy

I have seen your letter to Radhi with great interest. I agree with

what you said. I am the one who believes in performing of acts to

please Lord or to take his blessings in order to reduce the negative

impact in our lives. " What is destined to happen shall happen " -

is- a consolation theory - the one which I do not teach my followers

and friends, for the simple reason - I desire my friends and

followers to do all good things - think of good things that are

useful to self and to the Society without causing any loss or

damage to the NATURE AND NATURAL PROCESS and accept the OUTCOME –

the result – as a PRASAD OF LORD.

 

When an untodo thing or unpleasant thing happened in any ones life,

we may attribute the theory of WHAT IS DESTINED TO HAPPEN, HAPPNED -

in a matter of consolation to the person effected say, for example,

a person came out of his house and followed road rules strictly,

suddenly a motor cyclist came from behind and hit him resulting into

some fractures etc. In this case, that person may, for a while feel

that he is legal and perfect in following rules, still badly

effected by the incident, there we may tell him THAT WHAT IS

DESTINED TO HAPPEN - HAPPENED and console him, to bring him to

normalcy.

 

That means this theory is POST AN ACT - ie subsequent to an untoward

incident and NOT SURELY before that. This theory is expected to

strengthen innerself and to seek the blessings of the Lord. Secondly

some persons destiny is decided to have good food and other comforts

needed and probably if he comes to know of it, he do not do

anything that is needed to be done. He can surely feel at A LATER

DATE – that the food and other comforts needed are granted by Lord

and this is " destined to happen " . Therefore, leaving the Destiny -

the ultimate result to the Lord, we are supposed to do whatever we

should do in order to reduce the negative impacts in our lives.

 

There are number of stories in our ancient scriptures as to how

the negative impacts are nullified by good deeds. We may have to

learn a lot from these.

 

In short - we are all 0 s and Lord is 1. If this 1 is prefixed to 0,

our 0 gets qualified and like that any number of 0s. When the 1 is

suffixed to 0, 0 is 0 and 1 is 1. A secret - TOTAL SURRENDERING TO

1 make itself prefixed to 0 and that is what is expected of life.

 

Affly HARA HARA MAHADEVA DR P V SESHA SAI ASWAMEDHAYAAJI

Camp : Los Angles USA Cell 310 293 9066

[Guest guest]

Dear Sesha Sai garu,

 

Sai Ram. Thanks for the informative mail. I would like

to submit the following, not to dispute what you wrote

but to simply clarify these concepts a little better

for some of our readers. Sai Ram.

 

Whether everything that happens is destined to happen

or whether we sow the seeds of our future with our

present actions - in other words, are we puppets in

the hands of destiny or do we have a free will? is a

matter of perception.

 

If we think of ourselves as different from God, we

think of ourselves as puppets when we do everything

possible and still fail to achieve what we wanted. To

do what we do requires thought and then action. The

thought is triggered in our minds because of our past

karma and is designed to do what is written for the

present and the future. " Buddhih karma anusarini " is

the adage, which I am sure you are well aware of.

 

On the other hand, the concept of free will is

actually designed to help those who are still unable

to surrender because of an unripe ego. They are

karmathas, that is those who believe in the efficacy

of balancing bad karma with good karma. All yagnas and

yagas, all rituals, pujas, japa and tapa are based on

the principle that the present or future bad karma can

be countered with good karma, to elicit God's grace.

If the concept of free will and thus the concept of

negating the evil effects of past karma through good

karma now does not exist, no one will do good. It is

the driving force to counter the evil in the world,

which thrives on our innate desire for pleasures.

 

Whether one gets such good intention or not depends

again on one's destiny. Destiny in my humble opinion

simply is the driving force which takes us to our

destination and that is to reunite with our true

origin, that is God. The theory of destiny can explain

all that is happening including our desire to do good

or bad at a given moment.

 

All the puranic stories such as Gajendra Moksham, the

cursing of Parikshit by the son of the rishi etc.

support the theory of destiny. God's grace comes in

many forms and that includes hardships.

 

Thanks for an interesting discussion. Sai Ram.

 

With very best regards,

 

Swamy

truthseeker123x