Monday, September 21, 2009

One Must Experience the Fruits of One’s Actions

The celestial sage Narada said to Sanaka:”O Lord a doubt has occurred in my mind. You stated that those who perform meritorious deeds enjoy their fruits even in the course of billions of Kalpas. You also said that in the Prakrit laya (the final dissolution into the prakriti’) all the worlds are destroyed and that the only one who survives is Lord Vishnu Do not ht experiences of the fruits of merits and sins come to an end till the dissolution of the creation? This doubt has arisen in my mind. You are able to dispel this doubt.”
Sanaka said,”O man of great wisdom, Lord Narayanan is infinite and imperishable. He sis eternal and the Supreme Consciousness. He is the purest and without attributes. He is permanent and free form delusion caused by Maya. Although in reality he is without attributes, he is the greatest bliss and appears like one having attributes. He appears to be differentiated manifesting in the form of Brahma, Vishnu Shiva ect. He does all action in the Universe through His Maya. Being Brahma. He creates the Universe, being Vishnu, He sustains it, and in the end being Rudra, he swallows everything. At the end of the Pralaya (dissolution) form the bed of Shesha, Lord Janardana gets up in the form of Brahma and creates everything in the whole universe consisting of the mobile and immobile being as before. O illustrious Brahaman in the new Kalpa, Braham reinstates all mobile and immobile beings back to three former states in the new creation. Hence O excellent one the fruits of al actions meritorious or sinful must be experienced. The fruit of an action is inevitable and must be experienced. Even in the course of billions of Kalpas no anion gets nullified without beings experienced by the doer. One is bound to experience the fruits of one’s good and evil actions.
(Narada purana, Purva Bhage: 31.69-70)
Pujya Bapuji Says:
Irrespective of whether anybody looks or not there is one who is an eternal witness to all doings of all beiges at all times. He has all the accounts of out sinful and virtous deeds. One may escape the punishment given by the government of this world but nobody has ever escaped nor shall anyone ever escape the government of God. No Kind of influence, recommendation or dribery work there. There is no where to escape. Man is free to act but not in experiencing the fruits of his actions. Therefore, we should engage ourselves engage ourselves in good and righteous actions while steering clear of evil ones.
The actions which give peace and happiness to oneself and to others and which sooner or later lead one to God realization, are good and righteous actions; while those which provide momentary and transitory pleasures and in the long God leading to misery and hell are evil actions.
One’s evil and good action chase him for many lives. One has to experience the effects of the actions done in past lives.
“Hard to understand is the nature (path) of Karma.”

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