KARMA
What is Karma? This is a complicated question for my calibre. Moreover i can not assess
myself whether i can do justice to my explanation but still I shall try to keep myself explicit
on my views on the subject.
I am using the words'Introverts' and 'Extroverts' in a slightly different sense.I would like to
catigorise the people who are contemplative as 'Introverts' who follow jnaana yoga
where as the extroverts are inclined to action, we can catigorise them as 'actives' and
hence they take the path of 'karma yoga.' I take the help of 'Bhagavadgeeta' toexpress
myself.
We are now concerned with the actives. These actives have many vasanaas i.e. desires as
they are active the come accross somany things and get attached or detached on account
of their impulses. Life consists of three main activities:
1. Receipt of stimuly from the world.
2. Reaction of stimuly from within.
3. Response back to the world.
In a nut shell it is like a chemical reaction. The combination gives a new product which
may be useful or may be useless.These are based on three prime qualities or 'Gunas'
which are 1) Satwa 2) Rajas and 3) Tamas
We start from Tamas. It is the state of ignorance and inertia.The Tamasik will be indolent,
indifferent and indisposed to activity.
Rajas is the state of passion,desire and agitation.He evinces his interest and attention
mostly on the acquisition and enjoyment of worldly objects.
Satwa is the state of equanimous,serene and poised thoughts. His mind never strays from
the Supreme Truth.
But it is very very rare to come accross a person with a single guna but he will be an
admixture all the three qualities or gunas in its own proportions. and hence we find
infinate number of people with infinate number of qualities. If one quality is in greater
proportion it absorbs the remaining two and dominates the person concerned.
यस्त्विन्द्रियाणि मनसा नियम्यारभतेर्जुन
What is Karma? This is a complicated question for my calibre. Moreover i can not assess
myself whether i can do justice to my explanation but still I shall try to keep myself explicit
on my views on the subject.
I am using the words'Introverts' and 'Extroverts' in a slightly different sense.I would like to
catigorise the people who are contemplative as 'Introverts' who follow jnaana yoga
where as the extroverts are inclined to action, we can catigorise them as 'actives' and
hence they take the path of 'karma yoga.' I take the help of 'Bhagavadgeeta' toexpress
myself.
We are now concerned with the actives. These actives have many vasanaas i.e. desires as
they are active the come accross somany things and get attached or detached on account
of their impulses. Life consists of three main activities:
1. Receipt of stimuly from the world.
2. Reaction of stimuly from within.
3. Response back to the world.
In a nut shell it is like a chemical reaction. The combination gives a new product which
may be useful or may be useless.These are based on three prime qualities or 'Gunas'
which are 1) Satwa 2) Rajas and 3) Tamas
We start from Tamas. It is the state of ignorance and inertia.The Tamasik will be indolent,
indifferent and indisposed to activity.
Rajas is the state of passion,desire and agitation.He evinces his interest and attention
mostly on the acquisition and enjoyment of worldly objects.
Satwa is the state of equanimous,serene and poised thoughts. His mind never strays from
the Supreme Truth.
But it is very very rare to come accross a person with a single guna but he will be an
admixture all the three qualities or gunas in its own proportions. and hence we find
infinate number of people with infinate number of qualities. If one quality is in greater
proportion it absorbs the remaining two and dominates the person concerned.
यस्त्विन्द्रियाणि मनसा नियम्यारभतेर्जुन
कर्मेन्द्रियैः कर्मयोगमसक्ताःस विशिष्यते
But he who restraining the senses by the mind O Arjuna, engages his organs of action in the yoga of action without any attachment and he excells.
sita's father maharaja Janaka is the fittest example of this kind of human being. Hence he is called a great 'Karmayogi' and was respected as 'Janaka Maharshi.'
I stop at this and continue if wanted.
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