Talk Excerpt 635. Swamiji says: The very action of calling on God becomes a good karma.
Sanchita karma, Prarabdha karma, Kriyamana karma, Agami karma.
From Mother Radha’s recordings of Swamiji.
[At a satsang]:
In the song we have just heard, Sri Rama is trying to explain something to Lakshman. He is saying: ‘Do not get worried, my brother, all this is only karma; the greatest thing is to recognise that whatever is appearing in front of you is karma and from that point of view just do your dharma. No man who came to the world in a body (which is made of the five elements) can enjoy happiness alone. Happiness and sadness, pain and comfort, are two good friends. One may be the subject; the other is the shadow of that subject. So these pairs [of opposites] will be everywhere. These experiences are according to a person’s own karma; and because of this, O Lakshman, let us just do our dharma. That is all.’
Everything, whatever you do, is through hard work. You cannot be foolish and think that you are going to pray to God and He will say, ‘Yes my son, what do you want? You are the most beloved one. Don’t worry, let all this trouble leave you and go to another man’s house and you will be saved.’ That will never ever happen. If God does bless you, then it is a grace which cannot be explained. It is your own karma because the very action of calling on God becomes a good karma.
The guest speaker gave us a meeting point between worldliness and godliness when he used the word karma. There is a bridge; and you cannot just stand on a bridge. You still have to perform some sort of karma, some sort of action; you have to walk from one end to the other. The effort has to be manifested by us. The speaker gave us a clear explanation about Sri Rama being the bridge, the dharmic bridge. One can climb on the bridge called Sri Rama and go to the other side.
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