It is not possible for a man of the world to give up all karma and live a life of inaction. The one who knows this and gives up only the attachment to the fruit of action without forsaking the life of action knows the true spirit of sacrifice (tyaga).
The one who remains attached to the fruit of action earns the consequences in three ways. He earns the desirable, undesirable and a blend of the desirable and the undesirable consequences of his actions. But a sanyasi who practises renunciation without attachment will not be subject to such consequences.
Vedanta elucidates five main forces behind all karma. I will explain them to you.
These are the basic forces which reside inside a person. The first of these is this body which is the abode of desire, aversion, pleasure, pain, and knowledge. Then there is the agent of the action. The third is the cluster of all sense organs. The fourth is the the function of the vital organs of the body. The fifth is the spirit , the vitality, (Prana) that controls all these.
The body is the home to all the sense organs which toil day and night and earn the reward as pleasure and pain. The one who experiences them as such also dwells in the body. It is in this abode, on this stage that the drama of imprisonment and redemption is enacted.
The agent of action is the individual soul who has lost track of his divine origin. It is the divine spark of the great luminosity which is estranged from its source. It lives in the illusion of a separate identity and persuades itself to believe that it is the force behind all its actions.
The various sense organs are driven by the energy of Prakruti, a single source, but they all appear to function in isolation.
The vital organs inside the body function independently of the sense organs - the eyes, the nose, the ears, the tongue and the skin. They are empowered by the Prana, the oxygen taken in by the breath.
The breath comes in as oxygen, Prana, and gets converted into energy which is supplied to all the organs of the body.
When this entire abode, is blessed by the divine source of all life, by the universal energy, there is health, happiness, intelligence. This blessing shines in the intellect and spreads like light over everything related to the personality of the soul through the brightness of the intellect.
The one who remains attached to the fruit of action earns the consequences in three ways. He earns the desirable, undesirable and a blend of the desirable and the undesirable consequences of his actions. But a sanyasi who practises renunciation without attachment will not be subject to such consequences.
Vedanta elucidates five main forces behind all karma. I will explain them to you.
These are the basic forces which reside inside a person. The first of these is this body which is the abode of desire, aversion, pleasure, pain, and knowledge. Then there is the agent of the action. The third is the cluster of all sense organs. The fourth is the the function of the vital organs of the body. The fifth is the spirit , the vitality, (Prana) that controls all these.
The body is the home to all the sense organs which toil day and night and earn the reward as pleasure and pain. The one who experiences them as such also dwells in the body. It is in this abode, on this stage that the drama of imprisonment and redemption is enacted.
The agent of action is the individual soul who has lost track of his divine origin. It is the divine spark of the great luminosity which is estranged from its source. It lives in the illusion of a separate identity and persuades itself to believe that it is the force behind all its actions.
The various sense organs are driven by the energy of Prakruti, a single source, but they all appear to function in isolation.
The vital organs inside the body function independently of the sense organs - the eyes, the nose, the ears, the tongue and the skin. They are empowered by the Prana, the oxygen taken in by the breath.
The breath comes in as oxygen, Prana, and gets converted into energy which is supplied to all the organs of the body.
When this entire abode, is blessed by the divine source of all life, by the universal energy, there is health, happiness, intelligence. This blessing shines in the intellect and spreads like light over everything related to the personality of the soul through the brightness of the intellect.
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