: In continuation of Secret of Work or Karma Yoga

[Guest guest]

Dear Fellow Travellers and Seekers,

 

Love and respects

 

I am a fellow traveller like my brother Swami and

others in the list. I would like to submit the

following to further clarify the point:

 

Though we act or reacat the way we are destined to,

God has given us freewill to get over the bondage of

future karmas. For example, due to our prarabdha, we

are destined to suffer from a health problem. It is

upto you to undergo this problem with cribbing and

crying or to with knowledge that it is the result of

my prarabdha and I should accept and proceed further

in our journey to reach the Ultimate. Either way, one

has to experience the karma-phala, but the freewill

will give us the choice either to cry and/or blame for

the problem or to accept it with a smile and proceed

further, thereby avoiding the future karmas. In His

creation, only man has the choice to use his freewell,

none else. I know, it is easy to say than done, but

one has to start realising this truth at some point of

time in life and get along so as to reach the goal.

 

Whether we do good or bad karmas, one has to take

birth to enjoy the results of such karmas. Only when

one indulges in karma with " Tyaga Buddhi " , one would

get rid of both negative and positive consequences.

" Na karmana, prajaya, dhanena tyagenaika amrutatwa

manushuh " is the guiding principle. It means, neither

by karma, nor by progeny nor by wealth, one attains

moksa, only " tyaga " will give man the desired moksha

and nothing else " . I hope, I am clear.

 

I would also like to reproduce hereunder what Bhagawan

Ramana Maharishi said on freewill:

 

& #65279;A will is free only so long as it has not

acted. Once it acts, then that very act becomes

binding on it. The second time it acts, it does not

act as a free will, but as a " calculating will " , for

it carries the experience of the first act with it.

And a calculating will is not a free will, but a

limited will. The very creations or acts of a free

will work as limiting factors upon it and guide it in

its future activity. So, the more experiences one has,

the more his will is guided and thus limited. And this is real

predesti-nation. There is thus no antagonism between

predesti-nation, fate, karma, and free will. We were

free at one time. We acted, and then our acts became

binding upon us. They curtailed our initial freedom.

They now act upon us as unavoidable fate. Since our

experiences have become complex and varied, these

experiences now appear in us as joys and fears, hopes

and desires, each of which in its turn moulds or

fashions our reason and intellect. Intellect,

reason and feeling, being what they have been

fashioned to be, now determine our actions and make us

choose the predestined course. Thus the acts of one

life determine the framework of the next life. Like

farmers, we are now living on the crop we gathered

last, while we are preparing the soil and putting in

the seed of the new crop. Although we must undergo our

fate, there being no escape from it, yet all is not

lost if we use the little freedom we have in such a

manner as to lead to our ultimate rescue.