Lord Krishna continued to address Arjun on the binding of Karma...
"This mortal world is bound by the laws of Karma. Karma is the constant offering we are making unto the sacrificial fire of life. Perform karma in the spirit of a divine offering to life, without resentment or attachment of pride and be free and unbound by karma.
O Arjun, when the Creator brought this world into existence with all the beings living in it, he ascribed different attributes to every species and every being belonging to those species. These attributes became the laws governing each. The beings were bound to those laws as if to a divine sacrificial fire. Then the creator proclaimed that this sacrificial fire (life) was the law by which they were governed. It was the law of Nature. He told them to live in accordance with the law and if they lived thus, the Divine Fire would accept their offering (in the form of Karma) and fulfill their aspirations.
The Divinity which oversees the life of the universe will be satisfied if you live in harmony with the law of Karma and will be happy with you. Make the Divinity happy and in return, the Divinity will make you happy. A great harmony comes into being when the humanity lives in consonance with the laws of Nature.
This life on earth, this eternal sacrificial fire, demands that we give up to this fire its due share. When we keep this fire appeased by offering its due share to it, in turn the fire fulfills our needs and desires. We must never forget our obligation to the fire. We must make offerings out of what we earn thus. If we devour all that the fire has given to us and forget that everything we have is a favour received from the Divine Fire, we are in no way different from a thief.
Whatever remains after we have made an offering to the divine sacrificial fire at the altar of life is what we are entitled to. Those who consume only that much as their rightful share are free from all sin. But those who consume everything and gratify only their own hunger are sinners.
Food is the procreator of life. The rains are the procreators of food. And this rain is created by the sacrificial fire that has been burning constantly in the form of life on earth, and this fire is kept alive, burning , by the offering we make by way of karma.
So ever since life began on earth, there began Karma also to keep it going. Think of Karma as coexistent with Brahma, the First Cause. Brahma and Karma coexist. Brahma, the first principle of life, is all-pervasive. It lives continually in the sacrificial fire of Life.
This is the natural, primordial wheel that has been set into motion with a great momentum. Whoever succumbs to the lure of selfish desires and lives life irreverently, in defiance of the momentum of the wheel of nature, will fail to achieve the purpose of his life. His life is futile.
The one who understands the basic principle of life as a sacrificial fire, is the one who realizes the Inner Self. He is happy to live his life in the company of the Inner Self which is a part of Divine Principle of life.
Since he is a channel of the Divine Energy, there is nothing that remains for him to do. This self-realization sets him free of all bondage to deliberate performance of karma. Any thing done or anything not done (by him) makes no difference. Whatever he does or does not (do ), is the will of the Divine Principle.
"This mortal world is bound by the laws of Karma. Karma is the constant offering we are making unto the sacrificial fire of life. Perform karma in the spirit of a divine offering to life, without resentment or attachment of pride and be free and unbound by karma.
O Arjun, when the Creator brought this world into existence with all the beings living in it, he ascribed different attributes to every species and every being belonging to those species. These attributes became the laws governing each. The beings were bound to those laws as if to a divine sacrificial fire. Then the creator proclaimed that this sacrificial fire (life) was the law by which they were governed. It was the law of Nature. He told them to live in accordance with the law and if they lived thus, the Divine Fire would accept their offering (in the form of Karma) and fulfill their aspirations.
The Divinity which oversees the life of the universe will be satisfied if you live in harmony with the law of Karma and will be happy with you. Make the Divinity happy and in return, the Divinity will make you happy. A great harmony comes into being when the humanity lives in consonance with the laws of Nature.
This life on earth, this eternal sacrificial fire, demands that we give up to this fire its due share. When we keep this fire appeased by offering its due share to it, in turn the fire fulfills our needs and desires. We must never forget our obligation to the fire. We must make offerings out of what we earn thus. If we devour all that the fire has given to us and forget that everything we have is a favour received from the Divine Fire, we are in no way different from a thief.
Whatever remains after we have made an offering to the divine sacrificial fire at the altar of life is what we are entitled to. Those who consume only that much as their rightful share are free from all sin. But those who consume everything and gratify only their own hunger are sinners.
Food is the procreator of life. The rains are the procreators of food. And this rain is created by the sacrificial fire that has been burning constantly in the form of life on earth, and this fire is kept alive, burning , by the offering we make by way of karma.
So ever since life began on earth, there began Karma also to keep it going. Think of Karma as coexistent with Brahma, the First Cause. Brahma and Karma coexist. Brahma, the first principle of life, is all-pervasive. It lives continually in the sacrificial fire of Life.
This is the natural, primordial wheel that has been set into motion with a great momentum. Whoever succumbs to the lure of selfish desires and lives life irreverently, in defiance of the momentum of the wheel of nature, will fail to achieve the purpose of his life. His life is futile.
The one who understands the basic principle of life as a sacrificial fire, is the one who realizes the Inner Self. He is happy to live his life in the company of the Inner Self which is a part of Divine Principle of life.
Since he is a channel of the Divine Energy, there is nothing that remains for him to do. This self-realization sets him free of all bondage to deliberate performance of karma. Any thing done or anything not done (by him) makes no difference. Whatever he does or does not (do ), is the will of the Divine Principle.
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