When you desire to help others, you forget your own body and mind, you forget your own individuality, and it is then that you are in the best position to help others. #RamkrishnaParamahamsa
Before you act, you have freedom, but after you act, the effect of that action will follow you whether you want it to or not. That is the law of karma. You are a free agent, but when you perform a certain act, you will reap the results of that act.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Enjoy your life and be happy. Being happy is of the utmost importance. Success in anything is through happiness. More support of nature comes from being happy. #MaharishiMaheshYogi
Q: Gurudev, How does the Karma of our parents and ancestors affect us? Are we also punished because of their bad karmas?
@Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar ji - Listen, if ur ancestor has left you a house, is it not a boon for u now? Why are u asking such obvious questions?! They have earned a lot of money, toiled and built a home and they left it to u. You are enjoying their karma, is it not?!
And if they are gone with a big debt in the bank, and if u have to pay that back then that is ur karma too. So naturally it affects u. Not just parents but ur company also affects u.
If you keep sitting with very depressed people, u also feel down and depressed as well. If u are in the company of joyful and spiritual people ur karma improves.
Q: Gurudev, do thoughts and feelings affect our Karma (actions)?
@Gurudev - Yes, it is indeed correct. One’s thoughts and feelings both determine one’s karma. The way one perceives people and things around himself, they will appear in that very same way to him.
People will appear to u the way u perceive them to be. If u see a person as a friend, he will come across as a friend to u. If u consider someone as ur enemy he will behave like an enemy to u. Then they will appear as your enemy to you even if they do not do anything. It is said – ‘Yatha drishti tatha srishti’ (Meaning: As is one’s vision, so does the world appear to him).
Q: Gurudev, in the Bhagawat Gita the Lord says that you have to perform Karma(action) as long as you are alive. But one Karma leads to Karma. That is why this cycle never gets over. My question is, which is that Karma by which we can be liberated from the cycle of Karma?
@Gurudev - Liberation is acquired by Nishkama-Karma (Action which is done without any feverishness or attachment to the fruits of the action).
Q - How do we avoid ‘Karma Bandhan’ (bondage due to actions) in our daily life?
@Gurudev - Karma Bandhan is when there is some craving or there is some aversion. Both craving and aversion we call as ‘Karma Bandhan’. So when you do an action without aversion or craving, with a smile, with a free mind and a clean heart, then there is no bondage. Such kind of action brings that inner freedom too.
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In these days of struggle, it is very hard to attain God, for your days are spent in restless activities and business pursuits — which mean nothing in the end but loss of time, and unhappiness. - #ParamahansaYogananda
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Go deeper past thoughts into silence, past silence into the stillness. Past stillness into the Heart. Let love consume all that is left of you.
~ Kabir