Raja Yoga Chapter 4

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Karma Philosophy :

Now, it is the "Sangam Yug" , the last stage of kaliyug where very less time is left to end the Kaliyug and for people to purify and transform themselves completely in order to go to Satyug. God will select only the most pure souls that are born again in Satyug. After a person dies, a person leaves back all the wealth and even his family and friends back. His path is now different from the path of his family and friends. The first thing that leaves a person when he/she dies is "Money" because immediately after a person dies, people empty his pockets and remove wallet and so the first thing to leave you is "Money". But people give their entire lives to earning wealth and do not give time to their loved ones also. But that money is the first one to leave you when you die. The second to leave you is your "Family". The only thing that comes along with you even after death is "Karma" and that is your best friend but that friend will say that "I will come along with you till the end even after your death but I will say about your account however it is , not one word extra and not one word less". The fruits of our Karma goes along even after a person dies.

There are three kinds of Karma- Satopradhan, rajopradhan and tamopradhan. Tamopradhan means very bad karma. Rajopradhan means karma of medium quality and satopradhan means karma of very good quality equivalent to Gods and goddesses. The karma philosophy means we have to pay attention to our deeds (Karma). A human being is of three types- prakrutic thought kind, vikrutic thought kind and sanskrutic thought kind. The people falling under "Prakrutic kind" will think that "If that person did wrong to me , then I will also do wrong to that person or I will take revenge". The people falling under "Vikrutic thoughts kind" are of the worst quality because such people loot other's wealth and they have jealousy and envy for others and they show other people down. Even if the others did not harm them and they did good for them, such vikrutic people bring them down and they have jealousy towards them.

"Sanskrutic thoughts" kind of people return other's wealth and things back if they take. Even if the other person hurts/harms you, sanskrutic people will forgive them. All of us human beings should work towards becoming better and we should come under "Sanskrutic" kind. This is the best quality of people and God's best kids. The fruits of karma (deeds) come back to you in three ways:

  1. The fruit comes to you immediately.

  2. If we do some karma today, then it will come back to us after several years.

  3. If we do some karma today, then it will come back to us after this life or in our next lives.

Example for first kind of Karma:

Suppose that I am walking on the road, and there is one old man trying to cross the road. I had some tensions at home and I left and walking on road and then the old man tells me "Could you please help me cross the road because I cannot see?" Then I can give two types of reactions to him: I will bring out all my anger on him or I will help him politely.

If I help him nicely and do not take out other's anger on him, then I get blessings from him. The blessings I earn on my ability will help me a lot in my bad times. We can get blessings from our family, strangers,parents,etc. God says that the number of blessings should be more in your account and + should be more in your account and - should be less.

Example for Karma coming back to you in second way:

King Dushrath goes for hunting in the jungle and by mistake the arrow hits Shravan and his parents. Then the king apologizes about this to Shravan's parents saying that "by mistake this wrong deed has happened by him and please forgive him". But Shravan's parents do not accept his apology and tell him that " The way we have suffered a lot and died, you will also die one day with lots of suffering". Later if you see after several years, out of the four sons of the King Dushrath, two of his sons Lord Ram and Lord Lakshman had to go to the jungle for "Vanvaas" for 14 years and the remaining two sons had to suffer also. This led to immense suffering of King Dushrath and his death in suffering.

Example for Karma coming back to you in third way:

When we get beatings on our back, we get tears in our eyes. The nature's house is fair and in its stick, there is no sound but when that stick beats, we get hurt a lot. Sometimes, people wonder why a bad person is having a happy life and a good person is going through so much bad life. The answer to this is : He must have done sins in this life but he must have done some good deeds in his past life or so for which he is getting the fruits in his life now. That is why bad person also sometimes have a good time and happy life.

When God will ask you : "What did you earn in this entire life?" Then people cannot answer like "Oh , I earned in six figures per year and all". We only earn blessings, karma, sanskaar (moral values) in our life that goes along with us after death to God. We need to pray to God at all the ages and all the time and not just when we need him. If we pray to God all the time and call upon his name, then we are saved from doing bad karma or bad deeds. God gives us knowledge and brain and he helps us that way. We need to do our part of applying that brain and doing good. Whatever we do in life, we get the same back. If we take out time for God and pray, then God takes out time for us. If we do bad karma (bad deeds), we are not born like animals but instead we are born like humans but we need to suffer and go through the punishment like animals.

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