Question 1: our destiny is fix?
if yes then whatever we written is decided by god ?
Question 2 :then why talk about sinful karma and good karma ( pap and punya )
Question 3 : i heard
there is very thin line between these ?
Below write-up will give you a combine answer for all of above
Our destiny is Fix by
90% but there is a small space called " free will " in hindi we called it
as "Iccha" ,and that can play
a major role to change our destiny , lets understand how !
we have our karma which we accumulated from our previous
births , out of which 50% is manifested in terms of giving us this body ( handsome,
ugly , handicap , beautiful, man , women
etc) in certain environment ( good
family , bad family , good country..etc ) , sometimes we think what this Mr.XYZ has done in his life
that he took a birth at the house of this great person who is so well do .., that's
all because of his 50% manifested karma , this 50% karma died by giving us what we had at the time
of our birth !
now rest 50% is still accumulated at our head which are
yet-to and trying-to get manifested ! now how this work , if we have 1000Rs in our
pocket , according to our un-manifested karma it will provoke us to go to the strip club or beer bar or with
some people who are not a good company to be with ,now there is a factor called
intelligence , if our intelligence is guided
by the super soul and right knowledge , will tell us the right direction but this intelligence is just a inner voice , this will
never overcome our "free will ", our "freewill" is still in
our hand , which will decide the way we choose , the moment we choose the way to proceed ,we became a victim of our next karma which
is just being generated by the current act !!
""so un-manifested karma is utilized to provoke us (+ve or -ve) to do something as per
the previous karma -->we use our " freewill " to executed what is been advised by Intelligence/
Mind or Temptation---> New karma is just being generated by this act !! "" and the
cycle of karma is rolling on and on and on.......
Krishna said in Geeta: To do the Karma or not , is in our hand but once its been executed , whatever the reaction we have to accept ,
we all belongs to the spiritual world , but we had a desire
to enjoy independently , same as the kids , who wants to have their own little
house , little kitchen etc, so parents give them a
little castle to play with , same way when we
all decent from the spiritual world to material
world (God created castle), we have to follow some law which has created to
protect the castle , and thats called Law of Karma.
Now to understand the
role of mind , we , intelligence, senses and body , please understand the below diagram ,
Kaṭha Upaniṣad 1.3.3-4)
The individual is the passenger in the
car of the material body( chariot ), and intelligence is the driver . Mind is the driving instrument ( string),
and the senses are the horses. The self is thus the enjoy-er or sufferer in the
association of the mind and senses. that's
why its very important to sharpen our intelligence with right knowledge, then
only it can take a control over mind , through mind we can control our senses , and eventually control the direction
of our journey , else imagine a journey of a passenger whose chariot goes in the direction as per the will of the horses !!
krishna said in Geeta
: Arnjun i have told you whatever is truth for you to understand , but you have to decide which way you want to
go , i am your driver i will take you where you want ,
so krishna never force us for what we need to do , but if
listen to him or ask him , he will guide us to the right direction , same way in this chariot , Krishna is charioteer
and we are the soul as a passenger , if
we give our control to him ( his knowledge what he share in Geeta), we can
never be lost.
Shree Hari !!
ReplyDeleteHow to control our mind to go in right direction? how do we ask krishna to take us in right direction or stop us by not doing wrong things.
Sorry for Being Late ...
ReplyDeleteIt is certainly worthwhile knowing how to control the mind. Lord Krishna says in the Bhagavad-gita that the mind can be controlled by constant "practice and detachment."(—Bhagavad-gita, 6.35). He says that wherever and whenever the mind wanders, due to its flickering and unsteady nature, we must bring it back under the control of the Self (—Bhagavad-gita, 6.26).
The mind is like a child; a child is attracted to everything. It wants everything but not all things are good for it. Some things are even harmful...so the parent must discipline...Sometimes the child becomes angry and cries but the parent is determined to give the best thing even if at first it seems uncomfortable to the child.
In a similar way the intelligence and the spiritual being that we are must control the mind. The mind is attracted to so many material things and everywhere we look, someone is telling us that if just have one material thing or another then we will be happy...but it always proves to be false.
No matter how much we get, still we're dissatisfied. So the mind must be disciplined and by practice we must learn to pull it away from those things that are not good for it. Detachment is helpful because if we can understand that real happiness comes not from material things, but rather from a loving relationship with Krishna, then we can become detached from all the pushings of material desires and we can control the mind.
Therefore, "constant practice and detachment." Ultimately, we must develop a higher taste. Lord Krishna says, "The embodied soul may be restricted from sense enjoyment, though the taste for sense objects remains. But, ceasing such engagements by experiencing a higher taste, he is fixed in consciousness." (— Bhagavad-gita 2:59).
That higher taste is engaging in devotional service, the easiest of which is chanting the Lord's holy Names and executing devotional service , without practising devotional service its very difficult to attain detachment
I hope this is helpful.