Swamiji thank you so much. I covered the exact topic in my TH-cam channel in Turkish language, I wish I watched your video beforehand to have your insight as well. Lots of love from Istanbul. Om name Shivaya.
In the great cosmic plan, life is just a blink. Sufferings which seem so great to us and long in this life are mere moments in the supreme consciousness. As we cannot deny the existence and the physical world, everything we see, hear, experience are trying to teach us about something. As a kid i used to have this great fear or dread or sadness of little children dying when the apocalypse comes, i grew up in a staunch christian household, who still fear that the end of days are near, but this fear later only changed to gratitude about my own value of life and health, and the higher purpose. Yet if i die midway, i e must embrace it, as that was the plan.
I was raised in a christian home but thankfully I have a mother who understood Karma and reincarnation, we never believed in a eternal hellfire (an invention by the Roman Catholic Church to control the masses), and is actually a place reserved for the fallen angelic hosts. We also didn’t believe when things go wrong it was God somehow punishing us ! God does not need to punish us for our deeds, He has set laws of the universe in place and we make our own beds, we must sleep in them. It’s all about choice. Bottom line is early Christians taught and believed in reincarnation and Karmedic debt. The Bible tells us to step out of the great Harlot IE Organized religion IE the Roman Catholic Church ! Jesus abhorred religion ...... as the old saying goes, “ God created man ; men created religion” ! As a Christian I abhor today’s churches and the false teachings , the best I can do is love my brethren and hopefully bring them to the true message of the one and only messiah IE Jesus “the Christ” !
Wise observation! Also physical existance comes with its laws and sufferings. Link of actions affecting other link, forming web. If there are much good actions, then good life is more possible for everyone. For example using wrong chemicals in food leads to more cancer. People near cancer patient may become angry and sad and in turn hurt someone else. This is web of karma and we are little shining water droplets.
In chapter 11 of the Gita, Krishna reveals his true nature as all things manifest both what we consider good and bad and as such all things are separated only by the human condition. A plant that grows on rocky soil is no less than one that exists in a fertile field. It will attempt to express its divinity as best it can. Our mind attaches itself to life and drags us into a duality of good and evil, right and wrong, life and death while all the while we get an opportunity to express our divinity for whatever time we are given.
Shri Tadatmanandji your clarity and understanding of karma is so deep. Unfortunately I don't know Sanskrit and where to get this wisdom. Your channel is a good place to seek every now and then. Can't wait for Sadhguru's Karma book to be released in the Americas. Hoping for a different explanation by a live guru. Namaste.
Thank you for your teachings, Swamiji. 🙏🏻 It is indeed a much purer explanation than "God is punishing you", although I still have difficulty accepting this concept of Karma accumulations. I think this difficulty comes a lot from the fact that I don't "accept" the theory of reincarnation very well. Again, it makes sense to me... But I hate to think that, after I die, I'll forget everything I am and everything I was, that I'll have another mortal body... Perhaps with another biological gender... Because I love myself very much, I'm really attached to my life today, to my family. I'm not sure what to do about it...
Question: Please accept my dandawat pranaam. Swamiji after listening to your words most of the questions already are answered. You have already given clarity to millions of people like me It is my humble request to you to conduct an online Vedanta discourse so millions of us will be led to blissful knowledge through your divine grace.
Aatmiya GURUJi. Hare Krsna. "HARI Itchha. HARI Krupa" Knowing, Understanding and Acknowledging these natural Relationships with GOD, one Accepts God's wishing & God's blessings more easily, readily Experiencing HAPPINESS. Loving you one and all Hari Bhakta Now and HERE in this Light and Moment.
Namaskaram, thank you, your teachings are amazing, i wish you talk about how to remember past lives and what should we do if we make some bad karma in this life?
Guru Ji 🙏 I think that it's by my good karma I listen to you I able to follow you otherwise it can't possible that a man sitting a thousands miles away and and teaches me adavaita vadanta . Thanks 🙏 you
I am Brahman, disease to my body or mind is a temporary I take the form I want just like the trees discard the leaves in fall and get new in spring I discard a form for a better form or no form Hence there are natural calamities wild fire, earthquakes and so on so forth Forms come and go but I am one and I am real
I find Karma to be a control system more than anything. What determines what’s good and what’s bad? How can anything even be considered good and bad as well.
There is no such thing called good or bad. Just like the absence of light is called darkness. Everything is an action that takes place during an event in our lives. I bully you and I get bullied. Simple. I provide food and shelter to homeless children, I ll be born filthy rich.
joydeep chakraborty exactly, I agree. Thus, what force in the universe is judging what’s light/dark (good vs absence of good). This is just a control system to think there’s a force which a) has to judge the action you did and b) cause the judgement of the action to be applied to you
Pranam Guruji, Thanks for such a valuable teaching. However i think we should atleast know what bad deeds we committed in prior lives for which we are being punished in this life. In tax we know their is an income tax act which says individual will be taxed according to his income range and we jnow where the taxes are used. Y not The SUPREME atleast let us know what were our bad karma so that we can face the sufferings positively rather than thinking what wrong have i done?
We cannot really know what bad deeds we have done in our previous birth, if we know we will become really mad thinking of them. Best thing to do according to my opinion, it is really not necessary to know our past deeds. Sri Krishna has said in Bhagavadgeetha, if we go on doing good deeds in this birth , it not only reduces bad karmas of past births gradually , but it helps us to do good karmas in the following births.
Karma is your thoughts and subsequent actions! When things are going well - it’s because you thought them through and did it. When things are NOT going well - it’s because you didn’t think well & did something wrong Innocent people who get “bad” karma is random basis their DNA and environment. There’s no “GOD” keeping a ledger paying you for or harming you for your past lives when you don’t even know what good or bad you did. Is GOD so petty that he would harm you or not even save a child ?
Although I enjoy the video teachings, I just cannot believe in Karma. It seems like complete superstition to me. Babies born to suffer from disease and die are not suffering from karmic debt, they are suffering from random genetic mutation. There cannot be a tally sheet in the ether that hurts infants.
Brilliant knowledge. But doctrine of karma is also a belief. I have seen many cruel people live their lives happily. Cancer is just a nature's law. Cancer wouldn't mind if you are a good or bad person.
Swami Tadtmananda, I have a question. So when kids are born into a abusive situation it is due to karma. So where does that put us who think that we should stop abuse. Are we interfering with karma when we seek to protect these children or should we just turn our heads? This has always been the issue with me on karma as it has been explained to me. Where does human intervention apply properly when the universe is working out the karma?
Performing our duty is our opportunity to act. Yes it's right that if someone is suffering in front of us, it's because of his past actions. But it doesn't mean we should be shying away from our duty. Inaction is also a type of karma. If someone is dying in front of us and we don't try to save him, then our not trying will also generate subsequent results and in future when we will be dying, no one will come to save us. So we should see the sufferings of others as opportunity to help others. If something is happening in front of us, it means something is needed from us to act. It's like a chance being offered to gain good merits. Though real karma should be without any expectations, but still doing good for the sake of receiving good is better than inaction. So someone else's karma doesn't stop us from performing our rightful duty, Our action.
It’s your karma to help that child so that you can reap your own good karma to be carried over to your next life. Basic thing is do the right thing or do your duties to yourself or to the community you’re part of. Simple as it is!
🙏 pranam guruji, I feel like this. 👇 Sanchitha karma and prarabdha karma should be nullified to attain salvation. No God punishes any one. It's the inner "self" selects to enjoy the pain or pleasure between birth and death. After birth, Due to Maya, the "self" forgets about it's selection and involves in the circumstances and startes enjoying the pain or pleasure. If there is any God wants to help, HE himself feels helpless. Because karmas are so strong to restrict even GOD.
I have a question- There must be a time when the universe was created and the souls were new. Therefore, the first time someone suffered, how could it be the result of their karma?
@Rasta Populas Thank you for caring to respond to my question. The Brahman doesn't have a beginning and, so do we and our karmas. But if there is a way out, there must be a way in. The example of not knowing Latin, is about inaction and so it can never be associated with a point in time. However, karma is action. One logical possibility is I must have acted out of my free will, but Advaita Vedanta says there isn't any and our actions are essentially inaction. Is it why karma doesn't have a beginning? Then, as you say, Maya is responsible for the beginning of karma which is actually so beyond time that it is beginning-less. But the fact that Maya has a creator, the brahman, encompasses that he must have created Maya at some point in time, no matter if the time is countless. If the Maya, created by Brahman is responsible for the first karma, what was the basis for it, for it was unfair to face action for which one had not created a cause yet? I wonder how it relates to the fundamental question- why did God create us? I believe I'd look for its answer some other time :)
@@rastapopulas9986 Thank you for pointing out my logical fallacies. It made me realize I need to see things more clearly in my attempt to understand them. I am greatful to you for the pointers. 🙏😊
Our children are a complete reflection of us, they do everything we do, but start younger then us... So does the whole world! My mother started a spiritual journey while i was young, I used to get angry watching her chant, because she was a mother. I wanted her to just BE what she was. Like a student traveling to the otherside of the world to find that which was always inside of them. I started my own journey much younger then her, because i watched her for so many years. So if we do bad things (like I smoke as my mother did) we start smoking younger then our parents, and so we die earlier then they do. ( I saw this in my mother who died of lung cancer at 40 while her parents lived into their 80's, my grandparents smoked and they claimed "we just didnt know how bad it was" but they did.... we have known this since 1945 we just refused to look at it, due to PTSD from the wars/propaganda) If we live stagnate lives (because we are old and its harder for us to move around like young people do, so in a way deserve to be lazy now, as we had plenty of exercise while we were young) children will live stagnate lives as well, even younger then us as they start sooner then we do. (its as if that's their spiritual journey) They are too young to understanding this concept of "being young and full of natural energy" they just do as we do. Our children are a great example of a tiny stepping stone towards our future lives and what will become of us. I am unable to have children and i have accepted that, i have had many lives i remember them.. and i have also accepted that - this may very well be my last life. *so why do good things happen to bad people?* well.. this might be their last life, let them enjoy it. Just look at yourself instead and ask how you can take all the bad things that happend to you, and try to prevent them from happening to others in order to make a path for yourself to follow. if you have children, Start there, or better yet start with yourself.. try to "beat yourself" anything that you do.. in order to beat what you could do before. Thats the best right there.
If he or she knows that he or sghenis suffering some mishap in this birth due to his or her bad karma in the previous birth, at least he or she can try to do good deeds in this birth so that he or she can have the benefits of good karmas during next birth and if we increase good karmas and minimize bad karmas ,then we can attain sat chit ananda.
If we remember our past lives..then the universe will become utterly chaotic. For example if you were born to XY in your previous birth then would you accept AB as your parents who gave you birth in this life?
Namskar Swami ji,Greetings to you I am writing you this mail as i have some doubts. From few months echoes from my inside started asking questions related to Existence, who am I, what is this world, why it's created so i started reading bhagvad gita of both iskon and Adi shankara and came across many lectures of Prominent acharyas like Ramana maharishi, Swami Chinmayanand and ofcourse yours . I just have one query is it possible that in this illusion world which is off course not truth but still a waking world to keep it's existence we ourselves turiya (Consciousness) Manifest as an omnipotent intelligence to establish dharma and to make this illusion better experience I hope you understood my question even though i am becoming advaiti i do have some questions regarding sagun brahman, I actually think a fully aware consciousness can come in this illusion world.our body mind is not capable of understanding as cobsiousness is also beyond it but it can definitely come ?
I want to aske an question the first animal (human) born in earth from where he got karma ? I aske this question just to clarifying and not to criticize this video am a budisht and we also bealiving in karma also but im realy seeking answer for my question if any one can explain
First birth is not an animal. First we are god state . after desire comes we fall down . first birth may be the equal to the daity state. step by step we deeply fall down into a stone state - this is half of the cycle. After stone state the atma step by step grows up Evolution to god state - this is another half cycle. Buddha said 'Desire is the cause of suffering' the desire make the first birth to ultimate atma.
This is just so messed up. I can understand paying fir the deeds in this life but what does this have to do with prior life if I have no knowledge or mere instinct of the past life
Of course, there is also the pragmatic and most logical alternative: there is no gods, life is neither fair or unfair, shit just happens. Sometimes, in this life, we saw what we plant, and sometimes we don’t. How difficult is that to accept?
Good morning! These questions, why do bad things happen to good people, are born out of the illusion of separateness which it itself is the cause of suffering. It is as such good familiarizing yourself with concept of the "illusion of separateness" or "the illusion of separation" (I suggest doing a search for these words using quotation marks). Truth is all is ONE and the same. Now. It is not good for ONE to be alone. (Reference: Genesis 2:18-25 and change the word man with ONE or GOD or whatever you feel comfortable with). As such ONE has only one choice. One has to Veil itself so to be able to experience Companionship itself. It is only by veiling Oneself that Companionship can be experienced. (Reference: Genesis 1:27-28: So God created man in his own image (imago dei), in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them meaning male and female are el-o-him). The problem with the veil is that it is a double-edge sword. The good is that ONE can experience Companionship. The bad is that ONE experiences suffering by seeing itself as separate. The desire for Companionship aka Love outweighs the bad however and ONE has gone above and beyond to minimize the suffering of the other side of the coin by allowing us to transcend the veil through knowledge (science/jnana). The goal is thus to transcend the illusion of separateness and to see us for who we truly are and to recognize our true purpose which is were all the many paths come in including but not limited to religion, spirituality, science, prayer, et al. But it all comes down to this: Who we are is ONE (not wanting to be alone) and why we are (diverse) is LOVE. Hence we arrive at the final conclusion; the Absolute Truth: "The Meaning of Life is Love". (Reference: 1 Corinthians 13:13: And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. - Mark 12:30-31 New International Version - Bible Gateway: Love God and Your Neighbor as Your Self. - 1 Peter 4:8: Above all, love each other deeply.) Blessings, Wald Wassermann, Physicist.
During my meditation half of my body is cold and energy vibration is super strong electricity flows fast. however my right body is calm. after that i hear voices from my body stomach. weird experienced. looking for answer. wish someone can explain what happening to me
We cannot escape Karma. Even God's can't. However, if we work without expecting anything or surrender everything we do to Lord, we will come out of this cycle of karma, life and death.
In the teachings of Advaita/nonduality, if there is no "I", and all is just a manifestation of God/One/Source/Divine etc... then how can there be any reality to such a concept or doctrine of karma?
In Advaita there are two realities. The true reality (Brahman) which alone is real and the transactional reality (Vyavaharika). Karma has hold on the transactional realm. Once you realize yourself as Brahman it becomes possible to no longer produce karma. Any karmic debt you may have though still has to play itself out within the transactional realm but you are no longer affected by it.
Respected Sir, I'm Sorry If it hurts someone's feelings. It seems that you are justifying the suffering of someone poor and endorsing the luxury of someone rich. You are criticizing other Religious thoughts while your own explanation doesn't make sense. Should a Parent accept that his child might have committed horrible Sins in past Life of which he is Suffering from Malignant Tumor. Should Poor People bow down against Rich People as they are having a good Life that they were Good in their Previous Life. To me it doesn't make Sense. I think the only answer to the problem of suffering comes from existential Philosophy called Absurdism. Which Says the Existence in itself is absurd, and Suffering and liberation are human made concepts that don't make sense to the Universe. That might give any justification if at all to that problem. With Love and Respect
Namaskaram, I have two questions: 1. Why those people who had good accumulated karma do bad things in their present life. 2. If God gives us result of our deeds, does that mean free will exists? I believe that everything we do is a will of God.
Yes its will of god but god also has given u true intellect capacity which isn't available in both plant and animal kingdom to rationalize that karma is just perspective body is temporary moksha is truth and being in bliss is only solution without getting attached to anything
1. Tendencies accumulated over the janmaas colour our thoughts and actions in this janma. With mindful practice of corrections of thoughts and actions we can change our tendencies (skanda).
Namsty it's thought provoking question. If I step on a banana peel i'm likely to slip on floor and break bones, now who should I blame for this - floor , the banana peel or the God? It's called cause and effect relation. God is not responsible for those good/bad actions we take infact they are determined by the three attributes(Gunas) that is- Sattva (goodness, calmness, harmonious), Rajas (passion, activity, movement), and Tamas (ignorance, inertia, laziness) . These three Gunas are present in our nature by default and our actions are influenced by that attribute / Guna which is dominating out of the three. Such deep questions were asked by Arjuna from Lord Krishna in the battle field and instead of giving shallow answers, lord krishna gave too deep and logical answers to him in Bhagwad Geeta . Om shanti😊
BK Shivani sister says karma is fair exact. What someone did to me I would have never done in my past life no way I could have done that to anyone. In my past life impossible. Law of karma doesn’t always explain everything.
You are an extremely good presenter and speaker, but this answer seems about as by the book as possible and isn't really any more satisfying than the others. If we don't remember our past lives (for the most part, we don't) and have a sense of *why* something is happening to us based on what deeds we did in the past, then the whole system neither encourages good behavior nor gives us a sense of justice at work. I'm a spiritual person, but I think this old school explanation of karma is, well, old and incorrect.
Humble pranams. I cannot agree my dear God will not punish me for the bad deeds i did in past lives if there is one. Deeds did in past life cannot be corrected by the human in current life. What does Christians and other religions see this?
anant saini One does not bring good or bad upen oneSelf, the non-participating Witness Consciousness, the saakshi chaitanya. Apparent participation is an aspect of the grand delusion, and tragedy and comedy projected on the screen of Reality appear real.
and so, it also means they can change their life by effort, that is main purpose of karma theory, you should focus on doing good in this life irrespective of your situation.
Although I enjoy the video teachings, I just cannot believe in Karma. It seems like complete superstition to me. Babies born to suffer from disease and die are not suffering from karmic debt, they are suffering from random genetic mutation. There cannot be a tally sheet in the ether that hurts infants.
Swamiji thank you so much. I covered the exact topic in my TH-cam channel in Turkish language, I wish I watched your video beforehand to have your insight as well. Lots of love from Istanbul. Om name Shivaya.
There are not many like you, Swamiji! You are truly a great remover of darkness. Many Thanks!
In the great cosmic plan, life is just a blink. Sufferings which seem so great to us and long in this life are mere moments in the supreme consciousness. As we cannot deny the existence and the physical world, everything we see, hear, experience are trying to teach us about something. As a kid i used to have this great fear or dread or sadness of little children dying when the apocalypse comes, i grew up in a staunch christian household, who still fear that the end of days are near, but this fear later only changed to gratitude about my own value of life and health, and the higher purpose. Yet if i die midway, i e must embrace it, as that was the plan.
I was raised in a christian home but thankfully I have a mother who understood Karma and reincarnation, we never believed in a eternal hellfire (an invention by the Roman Catholic Church to control the masses), and is actually a place reserved for the fallen angelic hosts. We also didn’t believe when things go wrong it was God somehow punishing us ! God does not need to punish us for our deeds, He has set laws of the universe in place and we make our own beds, we must sleep in them. It’s all about choice. Bottom line is early Christians taught and believed in reincarnation and Karmedic debt. The Bible tells us to step out of the great Harlot IE Organized religion IE the Roman Catholic Church ! Jesus abhorred religion ...... as the old saying goes, “ God created man ; men created religion” ! As a Christian I abhor today’s churches and the false teachings , the best I can do is love my brethren and hopefully bring them to the true message of the one and only messiah IE Jesus “the Christ” !
Wise observation! Also physical existance comes with its laws and sufferings. Link of actions affecting other link, forming web. If there are much good actions, then good life is more possible for everyone. For example using wrong chemicals in food leads to more cancer. People near cancer patient may become angry and sad and in turn hurt someone else. This is web of karma and we are little shining water droplets.
I'm touched by your deep words. Pleasure to read something like this seldom.
YES! Thank you, Swami. This articulate explanation will help me in my own understanding and relationships with the Christians I live with.
This is a very good explanation. Thank You Swami Tadatmanada
In chapter 11 of the Gita, Krishna reveals his true nature as all things manifest both what we consider good and bad and as such all things are separated only by the human condition. A plant that grows on rocky soil is no less than one that exists in a fertile field. It will attempt to express its divinity as best it can. Our mind attaches itself to life and drags us into a duality of good and evil, right and wrong, life and death while all the while we get an opportunity to express our divinity for whatever time we are given.
Well said. ❤️❤️❤️
Grateful to have such an amazing teacher as you! :)
All ot the atheists will turn on the silent mode if they have to debate with this legend ❤
Law of Karma is Supreme 🙏
Shri Tadatmanandji your clarity and understanding of karma is so deep. Unfortunately I don't know Sanskrit and where to get this wisdom. Your channel is a good place to seek every now and then. Can't wait for Sadhguru's Karma book to be released in the Americas. Hoping for a different explanation by a live guru. Namaste.
Sastanga pranaam🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏. Swami Vedantananda Puri
Thank you so much!! Indeed a wide opening for me! I watched it along with my mother and we discussed al that. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you 🙏
Clarity is the key. Pranams Swamiji. Looking forward for the series upcoming. Its better to subscribe to get future updates.
Thank u Swamiji 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Om hari Swami Ji. . Thank you so much 🙏🕉🌱
Swami was so persuasive ... indeed the fruit of bad deed was so painful for anyone to accept ....
Thank you for your videos...very slowly its beginning to make some sense...I'll continue listening and hopefully grasping better...
If only I could give ‘like’ four times for this video, I would!! Om Shanti, Swamiji…
Thank you for your teachings, Swamiji. 🙏🏻
It is indeed a much purer explanation than "God is punishing you", although I still have difficulty accepting this concept of Karma accumulations.
I think this difficulty comes a lot from the fact that I don't "accept" the theory of reincarnation very well. Again, it makes sense to me... But I hate to think that, after I die, I'll forget everything I am and everything I was, that I'll have another mortal body... Perhaps with another biological gender... Because I love myself very much, I'm really attached to my life today, to my family. I'm not sure what to do about it...
Namaste Swamiji, nicely explained.
I appreciate the clarity with which you explain and the fearless perspective you present Swami Ji 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Om Swami, Gracias por la opción de subtitulado en español.
Om Tat Sat
Tejas
Question: Please accept my dandawat pranaam. Swamiji after listening to your words most of the questions already are answered. You have already given clarity to millions of people like me
It is my humble request to you to conduct an online Vedanta discourse so millions of us will be led to blissful knowledge through your divine grace.
I love your work. Thank you and your team for all the good work.
Aatmiya GURUJi.
Hare Krsna.
"HARI Itchha. HARI Krupa"
Knowing, Understanding and Acknowledging these natural Relationships with GOD, one Accepts God's wishing & God's blessings more easily, readily Experiencing HAPPINESS.
Loving you one and all Hari Bhakta Now and HERE in this Light and Moment.
Great insight!! Wonderful :-)
Amazing knowledge 🙏thanks guruji
Namaskaram, thank you, your teachings are amazing, i wish you talk about how to remember past lives and what should we do if we make some bad karma in this life?
Guru Ji 🙏 I think that it's by my good karma I listen to you I able to follow you otherwise it can't possible that a man sitting a thousands miles away and and teaches me adavaita vadanta .
Thanks 🙏 you
Soooo good videos and concept..thank you mr
I am Brahman, disease to my body or mind is a temporary
I take the form I want just like the trees discard the leaves in fall and get new in spring
I discard a form for a better form or no form
Hence there are natural calamities wild fire, earthquakes and so on so forth
Forms come and go but I am one and I am real
I find Karma to be a control system more than anything. What determines what’s good and what’s bad? How can anything even be considered good and bad as well.
There is no such thing called good or bad. Just like the absence of light is called darkness. Everything is an action that takes place during an event in our lives. I bully you and I get bullied. Simple. I provide food and shelter to homeless children, I ll be born filthy rich.
joydeep chakraborty exactly, I agree. Thus, what force in the universe is judging what’s light/dark (good vs absence of good). This is just a control system to think there’s a force which a) has to judge the action you did and b) cause the judgement of the action to be applied to you
Pranam Guruji,
Thanks for such a valuable teaching.
However i think we should atleast know what bad deeds we committed in prior lives for which we are being punished in this life. In tax we know their is an income tax act which says individual will be taxed according to his income range and we jnow where the taxes are used. Y not The SUPREME atleast let us know what were our bad karma so that we can face the sufferings positively rather than thinking what wrong have i done?
We cannot really know what bad deeds we have done in our previous birth, if we know we will become really mad thinking of them. Best thing to do according to my opinion, it is really not necessary to know our past deeds. Sri Krishna has said in Bhagavadgeetha, if we go on doing good deeds in this birth , it not only reduces bad karmas of past births gradually , but it helps us to do good karmas in the following births.
Music to my ears... 🎼🎶👍
Thankyou gurudev
My humble namaskar Swamiji
Soooper Swamiji
Pranam Swamiji! if you could kindly also explain about one more facet of Niskaam Karma.
Beautifully explained 🙏🙏
Very good style of expression in a very articulate way . Thank you.
Namaskar
Thank you
Excellent exposition in lucid language peppered with wonderful examples
Pronaams!🙏
Excellent 👌 real truth
Karma isn't appealing now that I learnt that I am Brahman from you Swamiji
Karma is your thoughts and subsequent actions!
When things are going well - it’s because you thought them through and did it.
When things are NOT going well - it’s because you didn’t think well & did something wrong
Innocent people who get “bad” karma is random basis their DNA and environment.
There’s no “GOD” keeping a ledger paying you for or harming you for your past lives when you don’t even know what good or bad you did.
Is GOD so petty that he would harm you or not even save a child ?
Although I enjoy the video teachings, I just cannot believe in Karma. It seems like complete superstition to me. Babies born to suffer from disease and die are not suffering from karmic debt, they are suffering from random genetic mutation. There cannot be a tally sheet in the ether that hurts infants.
Brilliant knowledge. But doctrine of karma is also a belief. I have seen many cruel people live their lives happily. Cancer is just a nature's law. Cancer wouldn't mind if you are a good or bad person.
Swami Tadtmananda, I have a question. So when kids are born into a abusive situation it is due to karma. So where does that put us who think that we should stop abuse. Are we interfering with karma when we seek to protect these children or should we just turn our heads? This has always been the issue with me on karma as it has been explained to me. Where does human intervention apply properly when the universe is working out the karma?
Performing our duty is our opportunity to act. Yes it's right that if someone is suffering in front of us, it's because of his past actions. But it doesn't mean we should be shying away from our duty. Inaction is also a type of karma. If someone is dying in front of us and we don't try to save him, then our not trying will also generate subsequent results and in future when we will be dying, no one will come to save us. So we should see the sufferings of others as opportunity to help others. If something is happening in front of us, it means something is needed from us to act. It's like a chance being offered to gain good merits. Though real karma should be without any expectations, but still doing good for the sake of receiving good is better than inaction. So someone else's karma doesn't stop us from performing our rightful duty, Our action.
@@sautrikbhattacharya Thank you for your reply.
It’s your karma to help that child so that you can reap your own good karma to be carried over to your next life. Basic thing is do the right thing or do your duties to yourself or to the community you’re part of. Simple as it is!
🙏 pranam guruji,
I feel like this. 👇
Sanchitha karma and prarabdha karma should be nullified to attain salvation. No God punishes any one. It's the inner "self" selects to enjoy the pain or pleasure between birth and death. After birth, Due to Maya, the "self" forgets about it's selection and involves in the circumstances and startes enjoying the pain or pleasure. If there is any God wants to help, HE himself feels helpless. Because karmas are so strong to restrict even GOD.
Just like truth is relative, Good or Bad are very relative!
I have a question- There must be a time when the universe was created and the souls were new. Therefore, the first time someone suffered, how could it be the result of their karma?
@Rasta Populas Thank you for caring to respond to my question. The Brahman doesn't have a beginning and, so do we and our karmas. But if there is a way out, there must be a way in.
The example of not knowing Latin, is about inaction and so it can never be associated with a point in time. However, karma is action.
One logical possibility is I must have acted out of my free will, but Advaita Vedanta says there isn't any and our actions are essentially inaction. Is it why karma doesn't have a beginning?
Then, as you say, Maya is responsible for the beginning of karma which is actually so beyond time that it is beginning-less. But the fact that Maya has a creator, the brahman, encompasses that he must have created Maya at some point in time, no matter if the time is countless.
If the Maya, created by Brahman is responsible for the first karma, what was the basis for it, for it was unfair to face action for which one had not created a cause yet?
I wonder how it relates to the fundamental question- why did God create us? I believe I'd look for its answer some other time :)
@@rastapopulas9986 Thank you for pointing out my logical fallacies. It made me realize I need to see things more clearly in my attempt to understand them. I am greatful to you for the pointers. 🙏😊
Our children are a complete reflection of us, they do everything we do, but start younger then us... So does the whole world!
My mother started a spiritual journey while i was young, I used to get angry watching her chant, because she was a mother. I wanted her to just BE what she was. Like a student traveling to the otherside of the world to find that which was always inside of them. I started my own journey much younger then her, because i watched her for so many years.
So if we do bad things (like I smoke as my mother did) we start smoking younger then our parents, and so we die earlier then they do. ( I saw this in my mother who died of lung cancer at 40 while her parents lived into their 80's, my grandparents smoked and they claimed "we just didnt know how bad it was" but they did.... we have known this since 1945 we just refused to look at it, due to PTSD from the wars/propaganda) If we live stagnate lives (because we are old and its harder for us to move around like young people do, so in a way deserve to be lazy now, as we had plenty of exercise while we were young) children will live stagnate lives as well, even younger then us as they start sooner then we do. (its as if that's their spiritual journey) They are too young to understanding this concept of "being young and full of natural energy" they just do as we do. Our children are a great example of a tiny stepping stone towards our future lives and what will become of us.
I am unable to have children and i have accepted that, i have had many lives i remember them.. and i have also accepted that - this may very well be my last life.
*so why do good things happen to bad people?* well.. this might be their last life, let them enjoy it. Just look at yourself instead and ask how you can take all the bad things that happend to you, and try to prevent them from happening to others in order to make a path for yourself to follow. if you have children, Start there, or better yet start with yourself.. try to "beat yourself" anything that you do.. in order to beat what you could do before. Thats the best right there.
I really pity on islam and christianity who never understood sanatan otherwise violence would be eradicated
Very nice video
The tax example is so good.
So what can you do about it? How can one improves ones karma in the current life ?
God .... us, God ... us, God ... us, ...... so I don't understand, what non duality it's all about ?
thank you
If he or she knows that he or sghenis suffering some mishap in this birth due to his or her bad karma in the previous birth, at least he or she can try to do good deeds in this birth so that he or she can have the benefits of good karmas during next birth and if we increase good karmas and minimize bad karmas ,then we can attain sat chit ananda.
Truth reaching to the ultimate supreme alakh niranjan parneshwara
If we remember our past lives..then the universe will become utterly chaotic. For example if you were born to XY in your previous birth then would you accept AB as your parents who gave you birth in this life?
Namskar Swami ji,Greetings to you I am writing you this mail as i have some doubts. From few months echoes from my inside started asking questions related to Existence, who am I, what is this world, why it's created so i started reading bhagvad gita of both iskon and Adi shankara and came across many lectures of Prominent acharyas like Ramana maharishi, Swami Chinmayanand and ofcourse yours . I just have one query is it possible that in this illusion world which is off course not truth but still a waking world to keep it's existence we ourselves turiya (Consciousness) Manifest as an omnipotent intelligence to establish dharma and to make this illusion better experience I hope you understood my question even though i am becoming advaiti i do have some questions regarding sagun brahman, I actually think a fully aware consciousness can come in this illusion world.our body mind is not capable of understanding as cobsiousness is also beyond it but it can definitely come ?
Ohh bhaiya aap yahan bhi
The question now is...what if a food persona has tons of bad karma? Should he surrender to a terrible life?
Om
Great khnowledge
I want to aske an question the first animal (human) born in earth from where he got karma ? I aske this question just to clarifying and not to criticize this video am a budisht and we also bealiving in karma also but im realy seeking answer for my question if any one can explain
First birth is not an animal. First we are god state . after desire comes we fall down . first birth may be the equal to the daity state. step by step we deeply fall down into a stone state - this is half of the cycle. After stone state the atma step by step grows up Evolution to god state - this is another half cycle. Buddha said 'Desire is the cause of suffering' the desire make the first birth to ultimate atma.
Pranam to guruji, How to send queries to gurujis ?
Nice teaching
This is just so messed up. I can understand paying fir the deeds in this life but what does this have to do with prior life if I have no knowledge or mere instinct of the past life
Of course, there is also the pragmatic and most logical alternative: there is no gods, life is neither fair or unfair, shit just happens. Sometimes, in this life, we saw what we plant, and sometimes we don’t. How difficult is that to accept?
Please upload more videos.
Good morning!
These questions, why do bad things happen to good people, are born out of the illusion of separateness which it itself is the cause of suffering. It is as such good familiarizing yourself with concept of the "illusion of separateness" or "the illusion of separation" (I suggest doing a search for these words using quotation marks).
Truth is all is ONE and the same.
Now.
It is not good for ONE to be alone. (Reference: Genesis 2:18-25 and change the word man with ONE or GOD or whatever you feel comfortable with).
As such ONE has only one choice. One has to Veil itself so to be able to experience Companionship itself. It is only by veiling Oneself that Companionship can be experienced. (Reference: Genesis 1:27-28: So God created man in his own image (imago dei), in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them meaning male and female are el-o-him).
The problem with the veil is that it is a double-edge sword.
The good is that ONE can experience Companionship.
The bad is that ONE experiences suffering by seeing itself as separate.
The desire for Companionship aka Love outweighs the bad however and ONE has gone above and beyond to minimize the suffering of the other side of the coin by allowing us to transcend the veil through knowledge (science/jnana).
The goal is thus to transcend the illusion of separateness and to see us for who we truly are and to recognize our true purpose which is were all the many paths come in including but not limited to religion, spirituality, science, prayer, et al.
But it all comes down to this:
Who we are is ONE (not wanting to be alone) and why we are (diverse) is LOVE.
Hence we arrive at the final conclusion; the Absolute Truth:
"The Meaning of Life is Love".
(Reference: 1 Corinthians 13:13: And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. - Mark 12:30-31 New International Version - Bible Gateway: Love God and Your Neighbor as Your Self. - 1 Peter 4:8: Above all, love each other deeply.)
Blessings,
Wald Wassermann,
Physicist.
Good
During my meditation half of my body is cold and energy vibration is super strong electricity flows fast. however my right body is calm. after that i hear voices from my body stomach. weird experienced. looking for answer. wish someone can explain what happening to me
I'm surprised that the Christian speaker didn't mention about repentance and forgiveness by God.
In Turia (meditatiom) the" goal experience" is "One withouth Second" therfore no Karma no
thots no action
Pratice Meditatiom, experience Pure Conscienciness, Pure Percepcion, it's remedy for the Law of Karma.
We cannot escape Karma. Even God's can't. However, if we work without expecting anything or surrender everything we do to Lord, we will come out of this cycle of karma, life and death.
In the mandukya Upanishads karika by swami gauryapada asks. Cause and effect. Did body desire create a karma. Or karma create the body.
if atma is universal self and not individual self then how rebirth is possible
But the belief that it's my past bad karma also gives guilt and shame. What to do?
how does it give guilt and shame when you don't remember them, infact it give you strength to look past your situation and do better in this life.
One problem with this.. is you’ll never know. It’s an explanation to somebody who has a hard time coping with living
In the teachings of Advaita/nonduality, if there is no "I", and all is just a manifestation of God/One/Source/Divine etc... then how can there be any reality to such a concept or doctrine of karma?
In Advaita there are two realities. The true reality (Brahman) which alone is real and the transactional reality (Vyavaharika). Karma has hold on the transactional realm. Once you realize yourself as Brahman it becomes possible to no longer produce karma. Any karmic debt you may have though still has to play itself out within the transactional realm but you are no longer affected by it.
Please watch to the end where he talks about beliefs that lie outside the scope of knowledge.
Brahma is the source of everything! Everthing is Brahma! The world is Maya. Follow the ascending forces, not the descending is the way to scape.
Does the actions of parent and grandparents have any bearing on individual karma in th3 present life
Respected Sir,
I'm Sorry If it hurts someone's feelings. It seems that you are justifying the suffering of someone poor and endorsing the luxury of someone rich. You are criticizing other Religious thoughts while your own explanation doesn't make sense. Should a Parent accept that his child might have committed horrible Sins in past Life of which he is Suffering from Malignant Tumor. Should Poor People bow down against Rich People as they are having a good Life that they were Good in their Previous Life. To me it doesn't make Sense.
I think the only answer to the problem of suffering comes from existential Philosophy called Absurdism. Which Says the Existence in itself is absurd, and Suffering and liberation are human made concepts that don't make sense to the Universe. That might give any justification if at all to that problem.
With Love and Respect
Namaskaram, I have two questions:
1. Why those people who had good accumulated karma do bad things in their present life.
2. If God gives us result of our deeds, does that mean free will exists? I believe that everything we do is a will of God.
Yes its will of god but god also has given u true intellect capacity which isn't available in both plant and animal kingdom to rationalize that karma is just perspective body is temporary moksha is truth and being in bliss is only solution without getting attached to anything
1. Tendencies accumulated over the janmaas colour our thoughts and actions in this janma. With mindful practice of corrections of thoughts and actions we can change our tendencies (skanda).
Namsty it's thought provoking question.
If I step on a banana peel i'm likely to slip on floor and break bones, now who should I blame for this - floor , the banana peel or the God? It's called cause and effect relation.
God is not responsible for those good/bad actions we take infact they are determined by the three attributes(Gunas) that is- Sattva (goodness, calmness, harmonious), Rajas (passion, activity, movement), and Tamas (ignorance, inertia, laziness) .
These three Gunas are present in our nature by default and our actions are influenced by that attribute / Guna which is dominating out of the three.
Such deep questions were asked by Arjuna from Lord Krishna in the battle field and instead of giving shallow answers, lord krishna gave too deep and logical answers to him in Bhagwad Geeta .
Om shanti😊
What about first life?
BK Shivani sister says karma is fair exact. What someone did to me I would have never done in my past life no way I could have done that to anyone. In my past life impossible. Law of karma doesn’t always explain everything.
You are an extremely good presenter and speaker, but this answer seems about as by the book as possible and isn't really any more satisfying than the others. If we don't remember our past lives (for the most part, we don't) and have a sense of *why* something is happening to us based on what deeds we did in the past, then the whole system neither encourages good behavior nor gives us a sense of justice at work. I'm a spiritual person, but I think this old school explanation of karma is, well, old and incorrect.
Lost my faith in god already just waiting for one more thing if it happens I’m done for good
Humble pranams.
I cannot agree my dear God will not punish me for the bad deeds i did in past lives if there is one.
Deeds did in past life cannot be corrected by the human in current life.
What does Christians and other religions see this?
But isn't it cruel to say it to people that they themselves had brought it upon themselves. It's very heartbreaking!!
anant saini One does not bring good or bad upen oneSelf, the non-participating Witness Consciousness, the saakshi chaitanya. Apparent participation is an aspect of the grand delusion, and tragedy and comedy projected on the screen of Reality appear real.
and so, it also means they can change their life by effort, that is main purpose of karma theory, you should focus on doing good in this life irrespective of your situation.
This proof scientifically proven cannot be ignored.
the repetition of "God gives us" reinforces a binary separateness to Oneness, fundamental to Karma. explain.
Food, pharma, beauty products amongst many more have cancerogenics. I don’t think it’s bad karma but deliberate poison
But is the notion of karma based on belief, or does it have a more empirical foundation?
I must have some pretty bad karma then 😢
Although I enjoy the video teachings, I just cannot believe in Karma. It seems like complete superstition to me. Babies born to suffer from disease and die are not suffering from karmic debt, they are suffering from random genetic mutation. There cannot be a tally sheet in the ether that hurts infants.
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What God say's is not a belief. It is a truth. Like law of karma unless u have potential to realize it.
Why didn't the Christians blame the Devil?
Shri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa suffered with cancer and died