Continuation of the blogger’s comments:
We have seen elsewhere that God is the Best Creative Writer.
God’s Atman or Soul is the Soul of in everyone of us. God
gives twenty-four hours a day which should be used in such a manner so that we
do not accumulate further Samskaras. This is the gist of the Karma Yoga. We are
pure Atma or Soul but the Soul is hidden in us and we are plunged into the
Ocean of Samsara or the worldly life. We have to spend, day in and day out, twenty-four
hours a day and everyday. We are shrouded in worldly life which, most of the
time, is spent in grabbing and holding Aishwaryas or wealth of all sorts so we
and the sons and daughters and others could enjoy the same here on worldly life
and uninterrupted materialism. We are selfish. And every waking hour is spent
in plotting on how to accumulate more and more wealth and save it for our
heirs. The required trick is to indulge continuously in action but with a mind
which does not identify with the enjoyments of the worldly life. We have the benefit
of the inner conscience which tells us every time we indulge or try to indulge in
selfish activities. The moment we try to grab some worldly material our inner
voice tells us to not become too selfish and self-centered, but pay heed to
inner voice. This inner voice is the voice of God. But unfortunately we, as we
grow up into full man and womanhood, we shed the CHILDISH pleasures at small
things and benefits and enjoy the worldly life intensely without producing more
and more Samskaras. Give a child a clay toy and the whole day is spent by the
child in admiring the toy, which is worthless in the view of the grown-ups. As we
grow our selfishness also grow and we become so self-centered that we have no
time to spend a few minutes in alleviating the sorrows of our neighbours. We are
thus plunged into Materialistic Ocean and we are in action-mode in the sense we cannot go
through life without doing an act. The inner
voice is there to guide us. But we become rich in materialistic world
proportionate to the extent to which we have become adept in suppressing the
urging of the inner voice. The inner voice is there to guide us through this
Samsara Sagara or the Ocean of Worldly Life. We have been given by our Holy
Father perfect personal choice and the inner voice is there to conduct us
through this Ocean of Materialism and we can spend every day in the service of
the whole humanity or become selfish and self-centered. This creative choice
given by our Maker is mostly spent in materialistic grabbing and holding wealth of all sorts. We forget that
we have come to this earth to wisely and faithfully work out our past karma and
not creating new accumulation of Samskaras. We mistake this worldly life for an
opportunity in enriching ourselves materially and spend least time in
Spiritually Awakening exertions. God’s voice in ourselves is disregarded in relentless
search of material gains and satisfaction. We consider those few who spend his
or her entire life in spiritual exertions as worldly foolish!
The trouble consist in our being plunged into the Ocean of
Materialistic world with a restless mind to grab and possess and enjoy
everything on the earthly plane. If we are not given PERSONAL CHOICE we would
all become holy beings like Vivekananda or Ramana Maharishi or some other
spiritual masters. The murderers and rapists would not be there if we are not
given Personal Choice. We are given personal choice but there is God’s voice to
guide us through all the material riches if only we could pay heed to its
urging.
Man is given PERSONAL CHOICE OF ACTION by God. We are
helpless puppets in the hand of Illusion which makes us adore the worldly life.
So we are plunged into the Ocean of Worldly Life and God’s
voice is instilled in us to guide us through this bewildering materialism. We all
are made action-oriented in the sense we cannot remain aloof from this worldly
life. This compulsion to act continuously throughout one’s life is sort of a
curse. But only if we become mature spiritually speaking we can afford to spend
our life in an activated mode and yet
remain unsullied by the relentless materialistic pursuits. So Man in his
compulsive exertion seeks to spend his life to pure materialistic pursuit. But Karma
Yoga Tenets require us to not renounce this world by do actions without having
a stake in the results. If we can act continuously diligently in a manner that
consists of benign thoughts and consideration for our neighbours and
for the entire humanity, we can easily free ourselves from material
possessiveness and unselfish. Then any and every act of us will not bind us by
creating new bundles of Samskaras. The trick
is to continuously indulge in action but without regard for the fruit of our
actions. This way new Sumskaras will not arise to bind us to this world and
make us come back to this worldly plane repeatedly.
Then how are we going to reconcile with what the Lord of
Gita states in verse number 33, chapter number 11, of Bhagavad Gita?
Because the Lord specifically states that all actions of
killing the warriors on both sides have already been done by Him
and all Arjuna needs do is to become just an instrument in carrying out what
Sri Krishna wants to do!
(Dear friends, I have something more to say in this regard
which will be uploaded tomorrow).
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