Karma Siddhantha tells us that it is due to the Prarabdha Karma phala that we are experiencing the fortunes and misfortunes in this life, and then what is Agami Karma?
How can we differentiate between the Prarabdha and Agami Karma?
The first and foremost difference is that the Prarabdha Karma is yielding the results and the Agami Karma is adding to the results. Prarabdha is always understood as Karma Phala that is the result of what was done in previous life.
An analogy will help understand better:
Mahatma Gandhi was shot by Nathuram Godse.
It was decided at the time of his birth (though no one would ever know before the event happen) that Mahatma Gandhi had to be shot at on January 30, 1948 at 5.17 pm to bring an end to his life this is his Prarabdha Karma.
But was it the Prarabdha Karma of Nathuram Godse to shoot at Mahatma Gandhi is the question?
NO, it is not the Prarabdha Karma but it is his Agami Karma, How will it be Agami Karma?
Mahatma Gandhi would be shot at on the particular time is the event to happen but who could do it or press the trigger is the act of anyone. Nathuram Godse took the initiative and he was very well aware of what he was suppose to be doing and the consequences. This makes his act a pure Agami Karma. The Agami Karma in him (Nathuram Godse) was triggered by the three gunas at the time of the event in him.
Friday, December 10, 2010
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Bhagya, the Fortune
In Kathopanishad Lord Yama explaines to young Nachiketa that in every life of an individual two paths namely Shreya and Preya appear as the ways to achieve the Bhagya, fortune. The noble choose the path of Shreya which takes him towards Enlightenment, while the week choose Preya which bonds them to Samsara.
Karma Siddhantha tells exactly the same, the Bhagya which is destined to come will always come, but we have to do our work without the intentions of accquiring the same. But for the Bhagya to materialize we have to do work and this work we do should be Dharmic.
This anology will help understand better:
Let us suppose a farmer is bound to get Rs.10000 the following day. And let us visualize the possible two ways he could get it:
1. The farmer may be Dharmic and would get Rs.10000 through the effort of selling his agricultural product in the market.
2. The farmer may enter his neighbour house and rob it from the safe without getting caught.
Here the Bhagya of the farmer was to get Rs. 10000. How he could manage it is purely his Agami Karma.
In the first way we find that the farmer is not bound to have added to his Sanchita Karma anything, but in the second he has been in obligation to his neighbour in his future life.
Well one may say the farmer may get caught and undergo punishment but the fruit of one act can never be nullified by the reward of the other.
Karma Siddhantha tells that every action has got its won rewards, no reverse action can nullify it. So if a person does something bad and thinks of nullifing it with a good act it is not possible.
Karma Siddhantha never justifies act of "ROBIN HOOD" robbing from the rich and giving it to the poor. Robbing from the rich yields a sort of karma phala and giving it to the poor would yield a different karma phala and these two karma phalas has to be experienced in the following birth not in this present birth.
Karma Siddhantha tells exactly the same, the Bhagya which is destined to come will always come, but we have to do our work without the intentions of accquiring the same. But for the Bhagya to materialize we have to do work and this work we do should be Dharmic.
This anology will help understand better:
Let us suppose a farmer is bound to get Rs.10000 the following day. And let us visualize the possible two ways he could get it:
1. The farmer may be Dharmic and would get Rs.10000 through the effort of selling his agricultural product in the market.
2. The farmer may enter his neighbour house and rob it from the safe without getting caught.
Here the Bhagya of the farmer was to get Rs. 10000. How he could manage it is purely his Agami Karma.
In the first way we find that the farmer is not bound to have added to his Sanchita Karma anything, but in the second he has been in obligation to his neighbour in his future life.
Well one may say the farmer may get caught and undergo punishment but the fruit of one act can never be nullified by the reward of the other.
Karma Siddhantha tells that every action has got its won rewards, no reverse action can nullify it. So if a person does something bad and thinks of nullifing it with a good act it is not possible.
Karma Siddhantha never justifies act of "ROBIN HOOD" robbing from the rich and giving it to the poor. Robbing from the rich yields a sort of karma phala and giving it to the poor would yield a different karma phala and these two karma phalas has to be experienced in the following birth not in this present birth.
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